put out of commission, in the autumn of 1791, he was appointed to the Bedford, another third rate, in which he continued until the commencement of the French revolutionary war, when he removed into the Duke of 90 guns. In the course of the year 1793 he was nominated a Commissioner of the Navy Board, of which he became Deputy Comptroller in February 1794.
Sir Andrew S. Hamond’s last appointment was in August, 1794, to be Comptroller of the Navy; in which high and laborious office he remained till early in 1806, when he retired with a pension of 1500l. per annum. Our officer married Anne, daughter and heiress of Henry Graeme, Esq. of Hanwell Heath, co. Middlesex, and has issue, Graham Eden Hamond, a Post Captain, and C.B.; and Caroline, widow of the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Hood, eldest son of Henry Viscount Hood, who served as Adjutant-General to the second division of Lord Wellington’s army, and fell in the enterprise of driving the enemy from Aire, March 2, 1814.
Residence.– Terrington, near Lynn, Norfolk.
SIR FRANCIS JOHN HARTWELL, BART.
A Director of Greenwich Hospital, and late Deputy Comptroller of the Navy.
[Retired Captain.]
This officer is the third son of Captain Broderick Hartwell, who died Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital in January, 1784; was born about the year 1757; and at the commencement of the war with the colonies, commanded the Rattlesnake cutter, in which he fought several smart actions with the enemy’s privateers, and captured a very valuable French West Indiaman. On his promotion to the rank of Commander he was appointed to the AEtna bomb, stationed at Antigua; and on the death of Captain Broughton, he succeeded that officer in the command of the Sphynx frigate, from whence he removed to the Brune. His post commission bears date December 19, 1779.
In the month of August, 1789, when their late Majesties reviewed a squadron under Commodore Goodall, at Plymouth, Captain Hartwell commanded the Bellona of 74 guns, and was presented to the King immediately after the sham
