caught part of a convoy bound from Cadiz to Lima, with quicksilver. He then carried Sir R. Bickerton to Egypt, and bore his flag for a time. In June, 1801, being on his return to Malta, with a convoy, he heard that a strong French squadron, under the well-known Gantheaume, was in the vicinity. After an anxious consideration, he was induced to quit the vessels under his charge, as a secondary object, and endeavoured to hasten on and reinforce Rear Admiral Sir J. B. Warren: but he unfortunately fell in with the enemy; and the Swiftsure, being leaky and foul, and nearly 100 men short of complement, was in no condition either for flying or for fighting. Thus circumstanced, Hallowell decided on engaging the two leeward ships, as his only chance of escape was the getting off in that direction, if he crippled his antagonists. Escape, however, was out of the question; for besides the fearful odds before him in force, the French commanders were men of remarkable bravery and talent. The Indivisible of 80 guns, bearing Gantheaume's flag, and the Dix-Août, a heavy 74, commanded by the well-known and active Bergeret, being in close order, opened their fire within half gun-shot of the poor old Swiftsure. She, however, though there was no hope, behaved nobly. A severe action ensued, and continued for upwards of an hour, when, finding every effort to get to lee ward baffled, and two other line-of-battle ships fetching into his wake, Captain Hallowell was compelled to strike, and with pain, as he expresses himself," ordered the colours which he could no longer defend to be hauled down."

During the peace of Amiens Captain Hallowell was stationed as Commodore off the coast of Africa, with his broad pendant on board the Argo, a little two-decker of 44 guns. Returning from this station by way of Barbadoes, and learning that hostilities were likely to be renewed with France, he offered his services to Sir Samuel Hood, and shared in the reduction of St. Lucia and Tobago, at which last place, while the Venus frigate attacked the main battery in Great Cour land Bay, Hallowell superintended the landing of the troops during the fire; and after the final disembarkation, he pro

ceeded, with a brigade of seamen and marines, to co-operate with the army under General Grinfield. These services were gratefully acknowledged by Commodore Hood, who intrusted him with the despatches home.

The Argo was next ordered to Egypt, with the notorious Elfi Bey on board, and Captain Hallowell appears to have been one of the first who detected his true character. In the summer of 1804 he convoyed the Mediterranean trade into the Channel, and on his arrival was appointed to that fine ship the Tigre, of 80 guns, in which he accompanied Nelson to the West Indies, in his fruitless pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain.

Captain Hallowell convoyed the second expedition to Egypt, with 5000 troops under Major-General Fraser, early in 1807; and he remained on that coast till the evacuation of Alexandria, in September, when he was stationed off Toulon. On this service his diligence was exemplary, but there was no particular opportunity for distinction till October, 1809, when he assisted Sir George Martin in driving on shore four French ships of war in the Gulf of Foz; and then following the eleven vessels that had escaped to the Bay of Rosas, disposed of the whole convoy by burning what could not be brought away. In July, 1810, this gallant officer was rewarded with a Colonelcy of Marines. In the following year he became a Rear-Admiral; and in January, 1812, hoisting his flag in the Malta, of 80 guns perhaps the finest two-decker then afloathe again proceeded to the Mediterranean, and availed himself of every circumstance and opportunity for aiding and encouraging the Spanish patriots in Catalonia, Valencia, and other parts of that distracted country.

After the fall of Napoleon, Admiral Hallowell retired to enjoy that peaceful relaxation which he had so well earned; and on the opening of the order of the Bath he was created a Knight Commander. He subsequently commanded on the Irish station for the customary period of three years; and in the summer of 1821 hoisted his flag on board the Prince Re

gent of 120 guns, as Commander-in-Chief in the Medway. This was his last service afloat, but he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and became a full Admiral in July,

1830.

During his professional career, Sir Benjamin gave many amiable traits of a generous dispositon, as well as great naval skill, and calm intrepidity. When at Gibraltar, in 1806, he sent a trunk filled with wearing apparel, and a check on his agents for 100l. to the Captain of a French man-of-war, whose ship had been sunk and himself taken prisoner, and who, in consequence, he believed to be in want of temporary assistance. During the siege of St. Elmo, it became necessary to cut down a tree, which interposed between a battery and the enemy's walls; and the Neapolitan labourers being afraid to perform so dangerous a service, Capt. Hallowell, with Trowbridge and two other persons, advanced from the works for the purpose of encouraging them. On reaching the tree a shot was fired at the officers, which struck the ground between their legs, fortunately without doing any injury to either.

Sir Benjamin Hallowell succeeded to the estates of the Carews of Beddington, and assumed the name and arms, pursuant to the will of his cousin Mrs. Anne Paston Gee, who died March 28. 1828. Neither himself nor that lady was descended of the blood of that ancient family; but her husband William Gee, Esq., who died in 1815, was descended from the Sir Nicholas Carew who died in 1687, and was brother to Richard Gee, Esq., who, after inheriting the property under an entail created by the last male heir of the family, assumed the name of Carew, and on his death in 1816 left the whole of his property to his brother's widow, the lady above mentioned. The estates are entailed on Sir B. H. Carew's sons in succession, and their male issue.*

The Admiral died on the 2d of September, 1834, at Bed

* To a friend who congratulated the gallant hero on this windfall his answer was touching :-"Half as much," said he, "half as much twenty years ago, had indeed been a blessing; but I am now old and crank."

His eldest son

dington Park, Surrey, aged 74, leaving issue. Charles is a Post Captain of 1827, and married, June 12. 1828, Mary Murray, daughter of the late Sir Murray Maxwell, C.B.

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No. XXVII.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esq.

"Call it not vain! they do not err
Who say that when a poet dies

Mute nature mourns her worshipper,

And celebrates his obsequies."

and

"No man was ever more beloved by his friends among them were many of the great as well as the good than the poet Coleridge. We so call him; for he alone, perhaps, of all men that ever lived, was always a poet,—in all his moods and they were many-inspired. His genius never seemed to burn low, to need fuel or fanning; but, gently stirred, up rose the magic flame, and the flame was fire. His waking thoughts had all the vividness of visions, all the variousness of dreams: but the will, whose wand in sleep is powerless, reigned over all those beautiful reveries which were often like revelations; while fancy and imagination, still obedient to reason, the lawgiver, arrayed earth and life in such many-coloured radiance, that they grew all divine." Blackwood's Magazine.

Mr. Coleridge was the youngest son of the Rev. John Coleridge, Vicar of St. Mary Ottery, Devonshire, and Ann his wife, and was born in that parish, where he was baptized 30th December, 1772.

"St. Mary Ottery, my native village,

In the sweet shire of Devon,"

to commence with a quotation from the beautiful play of his friend and schoolfellow Charles Lamb.

His father died in the month of October, 1781, leaving his widow with a family of eleven children, of whom one, the Rev.