“First, for making, or attempting to make, a mutinous assembly, for thff purpose of inducing the ship’s company to desire to be drafted; second, for knowing of such assemblies without acquainting their captain; third, for having endeavoured to excite the ship’s company to mutiny; and lastly, for having written, or caused to be written, an anonymous letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty, wherein they stated their full determination not to go to sea under the command of Captain Hill.”
The charges being all proved, with the exception of the last, three of the prisoners were sentenced to death, and the remainder to be flogged round the fleet. The condemned men were afterwards reprieved, and we believe the greater part, if not the whole of the others, were pardoned. In the following year, Captain Hill left the Naiad, having arrived at that standing on the list which precluded his continuing any longer in the command of a frigate. He has not since been afloat.
Our officer married, first, Anne, a daughter of the late Rev. James Worsley, of Gatcombe, in the Isle of Wight; and secondly, Caroline, a daughter of the late Joseph Bettesworth, of Ryde, in the same island, Esq. By these marriages, he has six sons and four daughters. His brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Fitzmaurice Hill, commanded the 10th regiment of foot, and died in 1811. Another brother, the Rev. Jutley Hill, is Rector of Tingewick, Bucks, and of Bonchurch and Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
JOHN MASON LEWIS, Esq
Resident Commissioner of the Navy at Malta.
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer was educated at the maritime school, Chelsea; received his first commission in 1790; served as a Lieutenant on board the Queen of 98 guns, in Earl Howe’s action, June 1, 1794; commanded the Snake sloop of war, and assisted at the capture of l’Hirondelle, a French privateer of 14 guns and 50 men, Nov. 10, 1799; and obtained post rank, Jan. 1, 1801. During the last thirteen or fourteen years he has resided as Commissioner, successively at Antigua, Bermuda, and Malta.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
