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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Piano Mécanique

From volume 2 of the work.
​PIANO MÉCANIQUE. An invention of the late M. Debain of Paris (died 1877), for the mechanical performance of musical compositions upon a pianoforte without disturbing its keyboard, or its capability for manual performance. To manage this the pinned barrel employed in the street pianos and barrel-organs has to give place to a novel and ingenious apparatus invented and adapted to his 'Piano mécanique' by Debain, about thirty years since. To an ordinary upright piano he supplied a second set of hammers working the reverse way to the ordinary ones, that is, from above. These hammers are set in motion by iron levers, the further ends of which are tempered hard, and project as 'beaks' through a comb of four or five inches long, in which space five octaves of the keyboard are ingeniously compressed. The comb crosses transversely a smooth iron plate fixed along the top of the instrument. 'Planchettes,' or small boards upon which the piece to be played is pinned (as on a barrel), are by simple machinery connected with a handle, made to travel along this plate, the pins doing the work of the fingers upon the levers. The dynamic shades of piano and forte, accent, etc., are produced by varying the height of the pins. In this way a mechanical substitute for expression is obtained. The planchettes may be endless, and are sold by the metre or yard. Perhaps the greatest merit of Debain's invention is that his upper system of hammers has the same 'striking-place' (i.e. measured division of the string for the impact of the hammers) that the keyboard hammers have. This is achieved by moving the latter forward when the mechanical apparatus comes into play. The great defect of the contrivance is the want of damping during performance, but the dampers can be brought down bodily upon the strings by a stop adjacent to the 'beaks' when the playing is over. The additional cost of the planchette mechanism is 25 guineas; it does not disfigure the instrument. When applied by Debain & Co. to the organ or harmonium it is styled 'Antiphonal.'
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# A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet (J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger)

A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet. To an Excellent New Tune.
Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet (W. O. 1)

A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet. To an excellent new Tune.
London: Printed by and for W. O. and are to be sold by the Booksellers.
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# A Lament (Wilde)

Also titled Tristitiæ ("Sorrows"). Subtitled, and occasionally titled, "Αἴλινον, αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ' εὖ νικάτω" ("Sorrow, sing sorrow, but good shall prevail with power"), a quote from Aeschylus' Agamemnon.
* "A Lament" in The Writings of Oscar Wilde (1907)
* "Αἴλινον, αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ' εὖ νικάτω" in The Poems of Oscar Wilde (1909)
# A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet (c. 1763–1775)

A Lamentable Ballad Of Little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard Bow Lane, London.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Lament (O world! O life! O time!)

* "A Lament", in Posthumous Poems (1824), edited by Mary Shelley
* "A Lament", in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1914)
# A Lament from the Dead

* "A Lament from the Dead" in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)
* "A Lament from the Dead" in More songs by the fighting men. Soldiers poets: second series (1917)
# A Lament (Whittier)

    "The parted spirit,
    Knoweth it not our sorrow? Answereth not
    Its blessing to our tears?"
The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken, One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken; One heart from among us no longer shall thrill With joy in our gladness, or grief in our ill.
Weep! lonely and lowly are slumbering now The light of her glances, the pride of her brow; Weep! sadly and long shall we listen in vain To hear the soft tones of her welcome again.
Give our tears to the dead! For humanity's claim From its silence and darkness is ever the same; The hope of that world whose existence is bliss May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this.
For, oh! if one glance the freed spirit can throw On the scene of its troubled probation below, Than the pride of the marble, the pomp of the dead, To that glance will be dearer the tears which we shed.
Oh, who can forget the mild light of her smile, Over lips moved with music and feeling the while, The eye's deep enchantment, dark, dream-like, and clear, In the glow of its gladness, the shade of its tear.
And the charm of her features, while over the whole Played the hues of the heart and the sunshine of soul; And the tones of her voice, like the music which seems Murmured low in our ears by the Angel of dreams!
But holier and dearer our memories hold Those treasures of feeling, more precious than gold, The love and the kindness and pity which gave Fresh flowers for the bridal, green wreaths for the grave!
The heart ever open to Charity's claim, Unmoved from its purpose by censure and blame, While vainly alike on her eye and her ear Fell the scorn of the heartless, the jesting and jeer.
How true to our hearts was that beautiful sleeper With smiles for the joyful, with tears for the weeper, Yet, evermore prompt, whether mournful or gay, With warnings in love to the passing astray.
For, though spotless herself, she could sorrow for them Who sullied with evil the spirit's pure gem; And a sigh or a tear could the erring reprove, And the sting of reproof was still tempered by love.
As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting in heaven, As a star that is lost when the daylight is given, As a glad dream of slumber, which wakens in bliss, She hath passed to the world of the holy from this.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet (A. M., W. O. and T. Thackeray)

A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet. To an Excellent new Tune.
Printed for A. M. W. O. and T. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet (W. O. 2)

A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet. To an excellent new Tune.
Printed by and for W. O. and to be sold by the Booksellers of Pye-corner and ⟨London-bridge.⟩
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soria, de, Jules

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soriano, Francesco

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soriano-Fuertes, Mariano

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sostenuto

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sostinente Pianoforte

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* ↑ Plenius is said to have been the first to attempt to make a pianoforte in England.
* ↑ Messrs. Broadwood own one of these original upright Instruments.
* ↑ Mr. B. B. Prosser of the Patent Office has supplied the references to the Claviol.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soundpost

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soto, Francesco

​SOTO, Francesco, born 1534 at Langa in Spain, entered the college of the Pope's Chapel June 8, 1562. He was a friend of St. Philip Neri, and in Dec. 1575 took the direction of the music in the Oratory founded by him. He also founded the first Carmelite convent in Rome. He published the 3rd and 4th books of Laudi Spirituali (1588, 1591) in continuation of the two edited by G. Animuccia, and died as Dean of the Pope's Chapel, Sept. 25, 1619.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sotto Voce

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soundboard

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Herbert John

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​JONES. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 25; h-p., 18.)
Herbert John Jones entered the Navy, 24 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen 98, Capts. Theobald Jones, Manley Dixon, and Fras. Pender, employed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the Mediterranean under the flags of Rear-Admirals John Knight and Sir Rich. Bickerton. On his return with Capt. Pender to England in Jan. 1806, as Midshipman of the Royal Sovereign 100, he joined the Renown 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, with whom he continued to serve for upwards of four years off Rochefort and again in the Mediterranean, where, in Oct. 1809, he joined in the pursuit which terminated in the self-destruction of the French ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion. After a further attachment, for very brief periods, to the St. Domingo 74, and Dictator and Ruby 64’s, bearing each the flag in the Downs and Baltic of Rear-Admiral Dixon, Mr. Jones was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 23 Nov. 1810. His subsequent appointments were – 14 Dec. 1810, to the Jasper sloop, Capt. John Eveleigh, on the Portsmouth and Lisbon stations – 12 March, 1812, to the Sultan 74, Capt. John West, employed, we believe, in Basque Roads, where he continued until April, 1813 – 8 March, 1814, to the Conflict sloop, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, which vessel, stationed off Lisbon, he left in April, 1815 – 1 May, 1830, and 26 Nov. 1831, to the Caledonia 120, and San Josef 110, flag-ships at the Nore of Sir Manley Dixon, under whom he served until paid off in April, 1833 – 12 July, 1836, to the Coast Guard – and, 22 May, 1845, again to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, lying at Devonport. Since the attainment of his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Jones has been on half-pay.
He is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, John William

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​JONES. (Lieutenant, 1809, f-p., 31; h-p., 19.)
John William Jones entered the Navy, in 1797, as a Volunteer, on board the Edgar 74, Capt. M‘Dougall, with whom he served for about three years in the Mediterranean and Channel, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman. He then removed to the Achille 74, Capt. Edw. Buller; and, after a short employment under that officer on the coast of France, became Master’s Mate of the Imogene sloop, in the West Indies. From 1802 until confirmed in his present rank, 28 Feb. 1809, he served again in the Achille, as also in the Malta 80, both commanded by Capt. Buller, and in the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, Indignant gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Petley, Orion 74, Capt, Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson (part of the force employed in the expedition to Copenhagen), Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Thos. Forrest. He then joined the Diligence 18, Capt. Abraham Lowe, employed, as had been some of the ships last named, in the Baltic. He was afterwards appointed – 16 Aug. 1811, to the Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday, stationed off Brest and Rochefort – 2 Nov. 1814, to the Crescent 36, Capt. John Quilliam, with whom he returned home from the West Indies and was paid off in Sept. 1815 – and, 26 Jan. 1821, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until 1834. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Richard

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​JONES. (Commander, 1844.)
Richard Jones died 7 May, 1847, at Southsea.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1811, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, in which frigate, after serving on the Mediterranean and North American stations, he proceeded, as Midshipman, to the East Indies, whence he returned to England with the same Captain, in the Malabar 74, in 1819. In July, 1820, he assumed the duties of Master on board the Morgiana sloop, Capt. Wm. Finlaison, on the African station, where, it appears, he subsequently officiated as Acting-Lieutenant of the same vessel, and as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Owen Glendower 42, Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, until within a short period of his being confirmed, 26 May, 1823, into the Bann 20, Capt. Chas. Phillips. He invalided home, after having acted for some months as Commander of the Bann, in Oct. 1823; and was next appointed – 18 May, 1824, and 5 March, 1825, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 26 June, 1829, to the Coast Guard – 27 June, 1837, to the command of the Defence Revenue-vessel – 11 June, 1840, again to the Coast Guard – and, 27 July, 1844, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of the Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth, Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker. Being the only Lieutenant on board the latter ship on the occasion of Her Majesty’s visit, he was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander by commission dated 22 Oct. 1844.
He has left five motherless sons in a state of destitution.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, James

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​JONES. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
James Jones entered the Navy, 8 May, 1805, as A.B., on board the Raisonnable 64, commanded by the late Sir Josias Rowley, in which ship he served as Master’s Mate in Sir Robt. Calder’s action at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, in all the operations in the Rio de la Plata, and at the capture of the town of St. Paul’s in the Ile de Bourbon. In the course of 1810, having followed Capt. Rowley into the Boadicea 38, he was further present at the conquest of the latter island itself, the recapture of the Africaine 38, the taking, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, a loss to the Boadicea of 2 men wounded, and to the enemy of 9 killed and 15 wounded, of La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hamelin, and of her prize the Ceylon 32 and the successful operations against the Isle of France. After his name had been borne for about ​five months on the books of the Africaine and Royal William, flag-ships at the Cape of Good Hope and at Plymouth of Vice-Admirals Albemarle Bertie and Sir Roger Curtis, Mr. Jones, in May, 1811, rejoined Capt. Rowley on board the America 74, and was afforded an opportunity, in consequence, of witnessing the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn in Dec. 1813, and of participating in the enduing capture of Genoa and its dependencies. He continued in the Mediterranean in the Queen 74, and Impregnable 98, under the flags of Rear-Admirals Chas. Vinicombe Penrose and his friend Sir J. Rowley, until Aug. 1815; then took up a commission dated on 21 of the previous Feb.; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, John (a)

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​JONES. (Retired Commander, 1832. f-p., 18; h-p., 35.)
John Jones (a) entered the Navy, in Dec. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board L’Espiègle sloop, Capt. Bartholomew Roberts, employed in the North Sea; and, from Feb. 1796 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Oct. 1801, served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Admiral Robt. Mann, Saturn 74, Capt. Jas. Douglas, Monarch 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Onslow, Crescent 36, Capt. Wm. Grenville Lobb (under whom, when in company with the Calypso sloop, he assisted at the capture, 15 Nov. 1799, in sight of a Spanish line-of-battle-ship and frigate, of the corvette El Galgo, of 16 guns), and Sans Pareil 80, and Carnatic 74, bearing the flags of Lord Hugh Seymour and Admiral Robt. Montagu on the Mediterranean, Home, and Jamaica stations. He then rejoined the Sans Pareil as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-named officer, with whom, in 1802, he returned home in a similar capacity on board the Melampus frigate. Towards the close of the same year we find him appointed to the Autumn sloop, Capt. Richardson; and in June, 1804 (after having again officiated as Signal-Lieutenant to Admiral Montagu in various ships on the Downs station), ordered to join the Isis 50, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower at Newfoundland. While next attached, between Feb. 1805 and April, 1811, to the Pomone 38, Capts. W. G. Lobb and Robt. Barrie, he presents himself to our notice as actively employed in the Channel and Mediterranean; and on one occasion, 5 June, 1807, displaying great judgment and gallantry in safely obtaining possession, near Sable d’Olonne, of an enemy’s vessel, although his boat in the attempt was pierced through and through by grape from the shore and from three armed brigs. His last appointments were, between Feb. 1812 and Aug. 1815, to the Stromboli bomb, Capt. John Stoddart, Curaçoa frigate, Capt. John Tower, Royal George 100, flag-ship of Vicer-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, and Dragon 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie, again on the Mediterranean .and Home stations. He accepted his present rank 2 July, 1832.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, John (b)

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​JONES. (Retired Commander, 1835, f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
John Jones (b) entered the Navy, 1 July, 1793, as A.B., on board the Goelan sloop, Capts. Thos. Wolley and Geo. Hopewell Stephens, under the former of whom he assisted in soon afterwards taking possession of Jeremie and of Cape Nicolas Mole, both on the island of St. Domingo. He next, from Sept. 1794 until Sept. 1801, served as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Daedalus, of 38 guns, Capts. Thos. Williams, Geo. Countess, Henry Ledgbird Ball, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, on the Channel, North Sea, Coast of Africa, and West and East India stations. On 9 Feb. 1799, while under Capt. Ball, he contributed to the capture, after an action of more than an hour’s duration, of the French frigate La Prudente, of 30 guns and 301 men, 27 of whom were killed, and 22 wounded, with a loss to the British, out of 212 men, of not more than 2 killed and 12 wounded. In the following Aug., being at the time in the Gulf of Suez, we find him participating in a three days’ bombardment of the Egyptian town of Kosseïr, garrisoned by a number of French troops. On leaving the Daedalus Mr, Jones became Acting-Lieutenant of the Intrepid 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood, to which ship, also stationed in the East Indies, he was confirmed by commission dated 27 July, 1802. In Jan. 1804, a few months after his return to England, he joined the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel, where, and among the Western Islands, he served from Dec. 1805 until he invalided in Nov. 1809 on board L’Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford. This was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 6 Jan. 1835.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Maurice

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​JONES. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Maurice Jones passed his examination 1 Feb. 1843; and after an intermediate servitude as Mate in the Caledonia 120, and Collingwood 80, flagships of Sir David Milne and Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour at Devonport and in the Pacific, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Aug. 1846. He has been attached, since 12 of the following Nov., to the Sampson steam-frigate, Capt. Thos. Henderson, on the station last mentioned.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Philip Button

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​JONES. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Philip Button Jones passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 16 Nov. 1827, into the Arachne 18, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, on the West India station, whence he soon afterwards invalided. He has not been since employed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Oliver John

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​JONES. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
Oliver John Jones, born 15 March, 1813, is second son of the late Major-General Oliver Jones, who commanded the 18th Hussars under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula, by his second wife, Maria Antonia, youngest daughter of the late Henry Swinburne, Esq., of Homsterly, co. Durham, and grand-daughter of Sir John Swinburne, Bart., of Capheaton, co. Northumberland. His only brother is the present Robt. Oliver Jones, Esq., of Fonmon Castle, co. Glamorgan, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire, who served as High Sheriff in 1838.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Sept. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and obtained his commission 21 Dec. 1839. His appointments have since been – 6 July, 1840, to the Southampton 50, flagship of Sir Edw. Durnford King at the Brazils and Cape of Good Hope – 8 Jan. 1842, to the Calcutta 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, off Lisbon – 5 July, 1842, as First, to the Snake 16, Capt. Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux, in the Mediterranean – 21 Jan. 1843, as Additional, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. K. Owen, on the same station – and, 11 Aug. 1843, again as Senior Lieutenant, to the Pilot 16, Capts. Wm. Henry Jervis and Geo. Knyvett Wilson, under the latter of whom he is at present employed in the East Indies. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Thomas

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​HAMILTON. (Lieut., 1825. f-p., 34; h-p., 1.)
Thomas Hamilton was born 1 Aug. 1801.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1812, as A.B., on board the Barbara 12, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Morgan, under whom be shared in many dashing affairs with the enemy’s armed vessels off the coast of France and in the Baltic. On one occasion, in particular, he came into destructive conflict with a flotilla of seven gun-boats off Fladstrand; and, on another, he assisted in cutting out 10 sail from Randers Fiord. After further serving off St. Sebastian, and witnessing the embarkation of the British troops in the Garonne, Mr. Hamilton accompanied the expedition against New Orleans, and bore an active part in all the harassing operations connected with it. At the commencement of 1816, having been for short periods employed in different vessels on the Home station, he proceeded to St. Helena and the Cape, where for three years he served, as Midshipman, in the Griffon 14, Capts. Geo. Hewson, Jas. Arthur Murray, and Wm. Elliot Wright, Spey 20, Capt. J. A. Murray, and Favorite 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson. He next, on his return to England, joined the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Edm. Boger, and Camelion 10, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, in 1819, a year or two after he had passed his examination, he became attached to the Severn frigate, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, under whom, with his name latterly on the books of the Ramillies 74, he was for a considerable time employed on the Coast Blockade. In consequence of certain acts performed by Mr. Hamilton at Dymchurch while in the execution of his duty, he was imprisoned for 11 days in the black-hole at that place, and afterwards conveyed to London, and thence to Maidstone. He was ultimately however, on 7 Aug. 1823, honourably acquitted, and had the satisfaction of being highly complimented by his judge, as well as by Capt. M‘Culloch and the Blockade officers. On the occasion of a subsequent and very fierce affray with a band of smugglers, many of whom were killed. Mr. Hamilton was so desperately wounded as at the moment to be considered lifeless. His arm, jaws, and one of his fingers were broken, and, independently of injuries inflicted on his left eye and breast, he received three sabre-wounds in the head. He was advanced to his present rank 14 Feb. 1825; and since 3 of the following Oct. has been employed in ​the Coast Guard – the last four years as an Inspecting-Lieutenant.
Lieut. Hamilton married, 28 Dec. 1830, Ann, daughter of John Miller, Esq., of Rossyvolan House and Ballintree, co. Donegal, a lady connected with many of the principal families in the north of Ireland, by whom he has issue four sons and three daughters.