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mourner, and the pall-bearers were the following officers
Commodore Lushington, Captain Kempthorne, Commanders
Hewett, Montriou, Barker, and Campbell. A public subscrip
tion was immediately set on foot for a monument in the
cathedral to his memory. Captain Hawkins being a universal
favourite, not only in his own Service, of which he was the
senior officer at the time of his death, but among all classes of
the community.
Captain Hawkins was born on the 6th of April, 1798, being,
on his father's side, lineally descended from the celebrated
Admiral of Elizabeth's reign, Sir John Hawkins. At the age
of thirteen he left Midhurst School, in Sussex, to enter the
Royal Navy, having been appointed to the 'Denmark' on the
14th of October, 1811. The ship's crew were attacked with
typhus fever of so malignant and fatal a kind, that, out of
twenty-three infected with it, Mr. Hawkins and one other alone
escaped with their lives. On the 10th of November, he was
sent to Haslar Hospital, and, after suffering from delirium for
forty days, was discharged on the 12th of January, 1812. It
was many months before he fully recovered, and, soon after,
through the interest of Sir Evan Nepean, he received an
appointment in the Bombay Marine The navy of the East India Company. .
In 1816, when serving in the ' Aurora,' in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
he took part in an action with thirteen piratical vessels; and,
in 1818, was again engaged with three other vessels on the
coast of Guadel. In 1819-20, he was employed in the gun
boats and batteries at the reduction of Ras-ul-Khymah, and, in
1821. he served with the land force at the reduction of the
Beni-Boo-Ali. In 1823 he was employed on a survey of the
Straits of Dryon, leading into the Straits of Singapore and
Malacca, and received the thanks of the Penang Government.
He obtained his lieutenancy on the 23rd of May, 1824. In
1829, while in command of the 4 Clive' at Muscat, he took an
active part in saving the city from fire, and, in acknowledgment
of his gallant conduct and exertions, was presented with a
sword by the Irnaum. In the same year he received the
thanks of the Bombay Government, for having recovered a
portion of the cargo of a ship belonging to the merchants of
Bombay, which had been wrecked on the south coast of Arabia.
In 1830 took place his famous voyage to the African coast,
where he was wounded, and for which he was tried for piracy.
He was promoted to the rank of commander on the 21st of May,
1831. While in England in 1832, he was employed by Lord
Glenelg, then President of the Board of Control Formally known as the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, it was established by an Act of Parliament in 1784 to supervise the activities of the East India Company. , to carry des
patches overland to India, there being a prospect of a Dutch war ;
this mission he accomplished in the depth of winter, travelling
by way of Vienna, Constantinople, Tabreez, Teheran, Shiraz,
and Bushire. The journey was accomplished in the shortest