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# Royal Naval Biography/Gambier, George Cornish

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GEORGE CORNISH GAMBIER, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1821.]
A son of the late Commissioner Samuel Gambier, R.N. by Jane, youngest daughter of Daniel Mathew, of Felix Hall, co. Essex, Esq., and nephew to Admiral Lord Gambier, G.C.B.
This officer entered the navy June 18th, 1808; and served us midshipman on board the Unicorn and Acasta, frigates, commanded by Captain Alexander Robert Kerr, and employed as cruisers in the bay of Biscay, from Oct. 1800, until Nov. 1811; when he joined the Malta 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Hallowell; in which ship he continued, on the Mediterranean station, during the remainder of the war. He was made lieutenant, March 6th, 1815; appointed to the Orlando 42, Captain John Clavell, Aug. 17th following; removed to the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Richard King, in the East Indies, March 12th, 1817; re appointed to the Orlando, July 4th in the same year, and to the Minden, Feb. 12th, 1818; appointed to the Topaze 40, Captain John Richard Lumley, Sept. 20, 1819; promoted to the command of the Curlew sloop, on the same station, Dec. 7th, 1819; and posted into the Dauntless 24, June 4th, 1821.
Captain Gambier subsequently visited China, New South Wales, New Zealand, the western coast of South America, the Marquesas islands, and Otaheite. In March, 1822, when on his return to India, from the Pacific Ocean, he made an excursion to the south head of Botany Bay, in company with the members of the Philosophical Society of Australia, and assisted at the ceremony of affixing a brazen tablet, with a suitable inscription, against the rock on which Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, “the Columbus and Miecenas of their time,” first landed. He then proceeded through Torres Straits to join his commander-in-chief. The Dauntless was paid off, at Portsmouth, towards the end of 1823.
Captain Gambier has since employed himself in making “noble and generous efforts to improve the morals and condition of our seamen, and to protect their persons and property us soon us they come ashore, from those harpies in London ​and other ports, that are always on the look-out to rob and ruin them.” It has, indeed, been stated, that, during the last two years, he contributed more than 1000l. towards the feeding, clothing, and sheltering of numerous poor fellows, who, either from their own improvidence, their inability to obtain employment, or the villainy of land-sharks, had been reduced to the very extreme of destitution. “A better omen than this, of patriotic feeling, and attachment to the ‘wooden walls,’ is not often to be met with.”
Agent.– T. Collier, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gambier, Robert Fitzgerald

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ROBERT FITZGERALD GAMBIER, Esq. [Commander.]
Son of Sir James Gambier, formerly H.M. consul-general in Portugal; and grandson of the late Vice-Admiral Gambier, whose nephew, James, was raised to the British peerage in Nov. 1807; and died Admiral of the Fleet and a G.C.B., in April 1833.
This officer was born at Lisbon on the 21st Nov. 1803; and entered the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Myrmidon 20, Captain Robert Gambier, fitting out for the Mediterranean station, Feb. 27th, 1816. After serving nearly three years in that ship, he joined the Bulwark 76, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore, in the river Medway; and, in Sept. 1819, the Owen Glendower 42, Captain the Hon. R. C. Spencer, destined to South America; where he was removed to the Dauntless 28, Captain George Cornish Gambier, in Oct. 1821. From thence he proceeded to the Marquesas Islands, Otaheite, New South Wales, and, through Torres Straits, to India; on which station, in Mar. 1823, he joined the Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Charles Grant, by whom he was appointed acting lieutenant of the Tees 26, Captain Thomas Coe, on the 1st April following. His first commission bears date Oct. 22d, 1823.
Mr. Gambler’s subsequent appointments were, in June 1824, to the Blonde 46, Captain Lord Byron, which ship was employed in conveying the remains of the late King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands to Woahoo; and, in Oct. 1826, to the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edward Codrington, under whom he served at the battle of Navarin, and by whom he was presented with the extra commission placed at his disposal, dated Oct. 21st, 1827.
Commander Gambier has one brother, Mark, in the Scots Fusileer Guards; and another, Ferdinand, in the royal navy. The latter was on board the Philomel sloop, Commander Viscount Ingestrie, at the battle of Navarin.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gammon, William Snuggs

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WILLIAM SNUGGS GAMMON, Esq. [Commander.]
Was born at Swanmore, Bishop’s Waltham, on the 23d Mar. 1780; and entered the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Robust 74, Captain (now Sir Edward) Thornbrough, in Sept. 1796. He obtained his first commission on the 5th April, 1805. From this period we lose sight of him until the spring of 1808, when he was appointed senior lieutenant of the Proselyte 24, Captain Henry James Lyford, fitting out as a mortar vessel, for the Baltic station. The loss of that ship, near the island of Anholt, Jan. 5th, 1809, and Mr. Gammon’s subsequent hazardous undertaking, to convey intelligence of the disaster to Gottenburg, in an open ​boat, and through a sea covered with ice, have been noticed in Suppl. Part III. p. 171, et seq.
This officer’s next appointment was to the Frederikssteen 32, in which frigate he served under Captains Joseph Nourse and Francis Beaufort, in the Archipelago and on the south coast of Asia Minor, in 1810, 1811, and 1812.
On the 30th June, 1813, Lieutenant Gammon was appointed first of the Severn 40, Captain Nourse, fitting out for the North American station, where he was most actively employed until the final cessation of hostilities in 1815. He obtained his present rank, “for long and active services,” May 27th, 1825.
* ↑ See Suppl. Part II. pp. 86–93.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. p. 880, and Suppl. Part IV. pp. 9–17.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gambier, Robert

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ROBERT GAMBIER, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Second son of the late Commissioner Samuel Gambier, R.N. by Jane, youngest daughter of Daniel Mathew, of Felix Hall, CO. Essex. Esq.
This officer was born at Wateringbury, co. Kent, Aug. 3, 1791. He entered the royal navy Aug. 3, 1804, and served as midshipman on board the Diadem 64, under Sir Home Popham, at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, Buenos Ayres, and Maldonado. On his return from South America, he joined the Surveillante frigate, and was present in that ship, at the surrender of the Danish navy. In 1809, he assisted at the capture of le Milan French corvette, of 18 guns and 115 men; and la Comtesse Laure privateer, of 14 guns and 55 men. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place Sept. 5, 1810; on which occasion he was appointed to the Caledonia 110, bearing the flag of his uncle. Admiral Lord Gambier. His subsequent appointments were to the Loire frigate and Edinburgh 74, from which latter ship he was promoted to the command of the Pelorus brig, on the Mediterranean station, Sept. 30, 1812.
Captain Gambler’s post commission bears date June 6, 1814. In the summer of 1815, we find him commanding the Myrmidon 20, under the orders of Captain Frederick L. Maitland, and employed by that officer in blockading the Maumusson passage until the surrender of Napoleon Bounaparte, when he accompanied the Bellerophon to England, bringing with him several French officers, &c. belonging to the fallen chieftain’s suite.
​In Oct. 1815 Captain Gambier re-commissioned the Myrmidon, and he continued to command her on the peace establishment for a period of three years. In 1820, he was appointed an Inspecting Commander of the Revenue Coast Guard; and in June, 1825, to the command of the Pyramus 42, in which frigate he sailed for Vera Cruz, Oct. 21 following, having on board Mr. Morier, H.M. commissioner to the republic of Mexico, and Sir Robert Ker Porter, consul-general to Columbia. He resigned the Pyramus, in consequence of the illness of his lady, about July, 1826.
Captain Gambier married, Oct. 27, 1816, Caroline Gore, fourth daughter of Major-General Gore Browne, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth, and commandant of the western district. By that lady, who died at Malta, Mar. 10, 1827, he had issue one son and three daughters. One of his brothers, Edward John, is a barrister-at-law; another, George Cornish, a captain in the royal navy; and a third, Frederick, rector of East Compton, in Dorsetshire.
Agent.– T. Collier, Esq.
* ↑ Commissioner Gambier died May 11, 1813.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. p. 521.
# Royal Naval Biography/Carew, Henry

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HENRY CAREW, Esq. [Commander.]
Was first lieutenant of the Repulse 64, Captain James Alms, previous to the mutiny in the North Sea fleet; and obtained the rank of commander for his meritorious conduct on that trying occasion. The following is the substance of an official letter which he addressed to the above officer on surrendering to him the command of the Repulse, after having succeeded in escaping with her from the rebellious fleet at the Nore, to Sheerness harbour; dated June 9th, 1797:–
“Sir, – It is with much satisfaction I inform you, that a plan I this day laid, in conjunction with the other lieutenants, the master, purser, marine officer, boatswain, all the gentlemen of the quarter-deck, and the loyal part of the ship’s company, for the purpose of regaining the command of the Repulse, has fully succeeded.
“I did not intend to carry this plan into effect until 11 p.m.; but the Leopard was no sooner perceived under weigh, than our party took fire thereat, caught the moment, and carried our point: unfortunately, however, it happened to be low water; and the ship, soon after getting under sail, took the ground, remaining immovable for nearly two hours, under a heavy fire from the Monmouth, Director, Grampus, and Ranger. I am sorry to state, that the second lieutenant, George Augustus Delanoe, lost ​his leg in this business, but from the nature of such a service it will strike you with astonishment, that this was the only casualty, although the hull, sails, and rigging was very much damaged. I am, &c.
(Signed)“Henry Carew.”
We have already intimated, that the Admiralty, from a high sense of Lieutenant Carew’s officer-like conduct and spirited exertions, were pleased to grant him promotion. His advancement to the rank of commander took place June 27th, 1797, at which period he had been eighteen years a commissioned officer. He was then appointed to the Swan sloop, on the North Sea station; where, in August following, he captured the Dutch privateer Goede Verwatging, of 8 guns and 28 men.
Commander Carew’s next appointment was, in 1800, to the Pheasant sloop, on the Halifax station; from whence he returned home with despatches, Aug. 22d, 1803. In the summer of the ensuing year, ill health obliged him to retire from active service; and the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital was granted to him, k» Dec. 1819.
This officer married Elizabeth Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Fownes, of Kittery Court, co. Devon; which lady died on the 4th Aug. 1831, in her 65th year.
# Royal Naval Biography/Carlyon, William

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WILLIAM CARLYON, Esq [Retired Captain.]
This officer’s post commission bears date May 9, 1781. He resides at Tregrehan, near St. Austle, Cornwall.
# Royal Naval Biography/Carew, Charles Hallowell

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CHARLES HALLOWELL CAREW, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1827.]
Eldest son of Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, K.C.B. by a daughter of the late Commissioner Inglefield, R.N.
This officer obtained his first commission on the 30th of Aug. 1820; and subsequently served as flag-lieutenant to his father, at Chatham. He was made a commander, Aug. 3d, 1824; appointed to the Cadmus sloop, on the Plymouth station, April 8th, 1826; and advanced to the rank of captain, April 17th, 1827. Mrs. Carew, to whom he was united in June, 1828, is the daughter of Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, R.N., C.B.
# Royal Naval Biography/Capel, Algernon Henry Champagn

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ALGERNON HENRY CHAMPAGN CAPEL, Esq. [Commander.]
Was advanced to his present rank on the 25th May, 1831; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard, June 6th, 1833.
# Royal Naval Biography/Carleton, William

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WILLIAM CARLETON, Esq. [Commander.]
Son of the late General Carleton. Obtained his first commission on the 18th July, 1810; served during the latter part of the war with France, in the Royal George, first rate, Captain T. F. C. Mainwaring, on the Mediterranean station; and was promoted to the rank of commander, Dec. 2d, 1826. He married, in 1832, Rosamond, daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Orde, of Westwood Hall, Northumberland.
# Royal Naval Biography/Campbell, Thomas

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THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1806.]
This officer was made a Commander in 1794; and advanced to the rank of Post-Captain, Jan. 22, 1806. He commanded the Wright, hired armed ship, previous to the peace of Amiens; and obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, Aug. 19, 1817.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hilton, George

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GEORGE HILTON, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in July, 1801; and promoted to the command of the Nimrod sloop, June 7th, 1814. He ​married, April 23d, 1816, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Henry Wise Harvey, Esq. and grand-daughter of the heroic Captain John Harvey, who fell, while most gallantly asserting the honor of his country, on the ever memorable 1st of June, 1794. This officer became a widower on the 25th Feb. 1819.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hilton, John

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JOHN HILTON, Esq. Knight of the Royal Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit. [Commander.]
This officer obtained a lieutenant’s commission in Aug. 1806; and served as first of the Bustard sloop. Captain John Duff Markland, employed in the Gulf of Venice, and on the coast of Calabria, in 1809 and 1810. On the 24th July, in ​the latter year, he received four wounds, while attempting to burn an armed felucca, under Cape del Arme. On the 12th Oct. 1811, he obtained the royal authority to accept and wear the insignia of K.F.M. which His Sicilian Majesty had been pleased to confer upon him, “as a testimony of his royal approbation of the great courage and intrepidity displayed by him in various actions with the enemy’s vessels near Messina.” About the same period, he was appointed to the Ganymede 26, Captain John Brett Purvis; and at the close of the war, we find him in the Minstrel 20, Captain Robert Mitford, on the Mediterranean station. His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 15th June, 1814.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hird, William

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WILLIAM HIRD, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in Jan. 1796; commanded the Ant schooner, previous to the peace of Amiens; and subsequently served for several years as flag-lieutenant to the late Vice-Admiral Pickmore: his promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 29th July, 1814.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hillyar, William

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WILLIAM HILLYAR, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 27th Aug. 1803, and subsequently served in the Niger frigate, commanded by his brother, the present Captain James Hillyar, C.B., on the Mediterranean station. During the last four years of the war with France, we find him in the Christian VII. 80, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth. He obtained his present rank on the 27th Aug. 1814; and was appointed inspecting commander of the coast guard at Marazion, in July 1824.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hire, George Augustus

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GEORGE AUGUSTUS HIRE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1825.]
Son of the late Lieutenant George Hire, R.N., and brother-in-law to Colonel Sandys.
This officer was made a commander, Aug. 1st, 1811; appointed to the Bittern sloop, about July, 1812; and advanced to the rank of captain, May 27th, 1825. He married. May 8th, 1810, Harriet, youngest daughter of John James, of Rosemundy, near Truro, co. Cornwall, Esq; and died, at Brockhurst, co. Warwick, Mar. 9th, 1831; aged 51 years.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hills, George

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GEORGE HILLS, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Was made lieutenant in 1798; commander April 20, 1808; and post-captain, June 7, 1814. He married. Mar. ​10, 1813, Diana, fourth daughter of the late T. Hammersley, Esq. a London banker.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hindmarsh, John

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JOHN HINDMARSH, Esq. [Captain of 1831.]
Obtained his first commission in Aug. 1803; served as senior lieutenant of the Nisus frigate. Captain Philip Beaver, in the expedition against Java, 1811; was made a commander on the 15th June, 1814; and promoted to the rank of captain, Sept. 3d, 1831. He is said to have passed Portsmouth, Sept. 24th, 1834, in the Nile steam vessel, bound to Alexandria, for the purpose of assuming a high command in the Egyptian navy.
# Royal Naval Biography/Hoare, Richard

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RICHARD HOARE, Esq. [Captain of 1827.]
Passed his examination, at Plymouth, in Mar. 1813; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, in the Dragon 74, Captain Robert Barrie, on the North American station, Nov. 13th following. His subsequent appointments were, – Aug. 30, 1815, to the Madagascar 38, Captain Francis Stanfell; – Oct. 31st, in the same year, to the Phäeton frigate, commanded by the same officer; – Jan. 7, 1818, to the Blossom 26, Captain Frederick Hickey; – Feb. 9, 1821, to the Niemen, Captain E. R. Sibly; – and, July 19, 1822, to the command of the Doterel 18, on the Halifax station. His commission as Captain bears date July 7, 1827.
​This officer married. Mar. 15, 1823, Matilda Ottley, youngest daughter of Rear-Admiral (now Sir William C.) Fahie. His lady died on the 27th of Sept. 1826.
# Remarks at the inauguration of Barack Obama

Remarks by Senator Feinstein of California, speaking in her capacity as the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
Mr. President, Mr. Vice-President, Mr. President-Elect and Vice-President-Elect, ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States of America!
The world is watching today as our great democracy engages in this peaceful transition of power. Here, on the National Mall, where we remember the founders of our nation and those who fought to make it free, we gather to etch another line in the solid stone of history. The freedom of a people to choose its leaders is the root of liberty. In a world where political strife is too often settled with violence, we come here every four years to bestow the power of the presidency upon our democratically elected leader.
Those who doubt the supremacy of the ballot over the bullet can never diminish the power engendered by non-violent struggles for justice and equality like the one that made this day possible. No triumph tainted by brutality could ever match the sweet victory of this hour and of what it means to those who marched and died to make it a reality.
Our work is not yet finished, but future generations will mark this morning as the turning point for real and necessary change in our nation. They will look back and remember that this was the moment when the dream that once echoed across history from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial finally reached the walls of the White House. In that spirit we today not only inaugurate a new administration; we pledge ourselves to the hope, the vision, the unity and the renewed call to greatness inspired by the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.
Thank you, and God bless America!
# Remarks recorded by George W. Bush for the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World, Florida

Probably recorded by Walt Disney staff during a meeting with the President in early 2001. These lines were a part of the attraction presentation from 2001 to 2009.
My fellow Americans, when we look back on the history of this country, we see a record of almost unbelievable energy, sacrifice, hard work; of impossible dreams that our ancestors dreamed and made real. We see injustice, too, that weighs on our hearts even today. But for every injustice there has always been a voice crying out to right it. And America has always listened to those voices. We're listening today. And perhaps it falls to us, to this first generation of 21st century Americans, to say, once and for all, that no child, no race, no creed, no ethnic community will ever again be left out of the American dream. Through education, through the opportunity to work and to enjoy the fruits of that work, we can open every closed door, expand the horizons of all Americans. Again and again, we return to the same simple principles: freedom, equality. The freedom to create, to prosper, to dream. Equality before the law, in the workplace, and a chance for a better life. And each time, in the process, America grows stronger. The beacon of democracy grows brighter. The world looks with new astonishment at what free people can do. "We the People" are just getting started.
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# Remarks to the American Committee on Italian Migration

Delivered on 11 June 1963, 10 a.m. from the colonnade bordering the Flower Garden at the White House to delegates attending the annual conference of the American Committee on Italian Migration.
Ladies and gentlemen:
I want to express a warm welcome to all of you. As your chairman has said, this has been a matter of great interest to me through 14 years of Congress. I am sure that there are some members of your families who are here as a result of legislation which we were able to pass in the fifties, even though there is a good deal of unfinished business still left before us to correct the inequities in American immigration laws.
Next week, we will send to the Congress of the United States our proposals for improving and modernizing the laws which govern the admission of immigrants into this country. There are still a good many brothers and sisters of American citizens who are unable to get here, who may have preferences as members of families but because of the maldistribution of quotas in the European area we have this situation which has become nearly intolerable, where you have thousands of unused quotas in some countries while you have members of families, close members of families, in other countries who are desirous of coming to this country, who can become useful citizens, whose skills are needed, who are unable to come because of the inequity and the maldistribution of the quota numbers.
Now this is a problem with which you have lived; it is a problem which, I think, most Americans are unaware of. You have countries which have a population for example, of 1/25 or 1/20 of that of Italy, which have an immigration quota to the United States greater than Italy, and which use only half of the available quota and, of course, the Italian quota is oversubscribed.
We hope the Congress of the United States will accept these recommendations and that before this year is over we will have what we have needed for a good many years, which is the recognition that all people can make equally good citizens, and that what this country needs and wants are those who wish to come here to build their families here and contribute to the life of our country.
In the meanwhile, I congratulate you on the work you are doing. All the progress that has been made in this field, all the progress that has been made in any field of national life has been due to the dedicated efforts of citizens such as yourselves. I am glad you came here.
I hope to go to Italy within the next two weeks and to have a chance to see where it is from whence you came and to say hello to those members of your families who are still waiting at the docks. Thank you.
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