The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

Yesterday morning the Southdown Militia arrived
at Liverpool from Dublin in the steamers Trafalgar
and Prince, and immediately proceeded for th-ir
ultimate destination, the camp at Aldershot. Litho
afternoon the King's Own Regiment, fromthe Tower
Hamlets, went by train to Liverpool, and embarked
in the same steamers for Dublin, en route for Newry,
where they are to be stationed. On Friday (to-
morrow) the Trafalgar and Prince steamers will
convey the Dublin Militia to Liverpool en route for
Aldershot, and will take back the Shropshire Militia,
returning again to Liverpool with the Limerick Mi-
litia, and taking back to Dublin the Leicestershire
Militia.

DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL HAWKINS.
Rear-Admiral Abraham Mills Hawkins, on the
retired list C.D.E., died recently at Buttville, near
agedKnightsbridge, aed 73. He was the secon son
of the late Richard Hawkins, Esq., of that place,
and enumerates amongst his ancestors the cele-
brated Sir John Hawkins, who was knighted for
the conspicuous part he had enacted as rear-admiral
in the defeat of the Spanish Armada ; and Sir
Richard Hawkins, his son, an officer also distin-
guished in the naval annals of thine days. Queen
Elizabeth, in consideration of the important ser-
vices rendered to his country by Sir John Hawkins,
granted honourable augmentations to the family
arms, which had been borne by the deceased. This
officer entered the navy March 23,1793, as first-class
volunteer, on board the Barfleur, 98, Captain J. R.
D icres, employed in the Channel and off Cadiz;
!Irv' in Jan., 1790, became midshipman of the
Prince, 98, hearing the flag of Sir R. Curtis, whom
lit soon accompanied to the Cape of God Hope in
the Lancaster, 64. He there removed for a few
mouths in 1800 to the Rattlesnake, Captain R.
Curtis, but afterwards rejoined the Lancaster, and
continued to serve in that ship until Nov., 1803.
He was then transferred to the Trident, 64, flag.
ship of Admiral Rainier on the East India station;
where, from July, 1804, until his return to Eng-
land towards the close of 1806 in the Woolwich
armee-en flute, Captain F. B-aufort, he was fur-
-1 her employed, as acting lieutenant, on board the
Victor, sl,iop, Captain J. Johnstone ; Sheerness,
44, Captain Lord George Stuart (under whom he
*as wrc eked in a gale of wind, off Trincomalee, 7th
Jan., 1805) ; Pyche, frigate, Captain William
Wooltidge, and Duncan, 38, Captain Lord George
Stuart. On being officially promoted, 11th Jan.,
1807, Mr. Hawkins was appointed to the Amiable,
32, in which frigate, and the Horatio, 38, both
commanded by the last-mentioned officer, he
served on the North Sea station, principally as
first lieutenant, until September, 1812. While iu
the former ship he assisted at the capture, on Feb.
3, 1809, of L'iris, French national ship, pierced
for 32 guns, but mounting only 24, after a short
running fight, in which the latter sustained a loss
of two men killed and one wounded, and the Ami-
able (besides being materially damaged in her masts,
spars, sails, and rigging) of two wounded ; and in
the course of the following July we find him earn-
ing the thanks of his captain for his indefatigable
exertions at the reduction of the batteries of Cux-
haven and Bremerlehe, and the expulsion of the
enemy from Gessendori Ou August 2, 1812, being
then in the Horatio, he took the command of four
boats belonging to that ship, and in a manner in-
describably gallant, succeeded, at the end of a molt
sanguinary combat, in which the assailants s afftreci
a loss of 9 men killed and 16 wounded, and their
opponents 10 killed and 13 wounded, in capturing a
Danish schooner and cutter, mounting 10 guns be-
tween them, lying at anchor in a position of extra-
ordinary strength near a village on an arm of the sea,
30 miles inland, on the coast of Norway. He unfor-
tunately, however, received a severe wound in the
ri
ineggnoht ;
pension
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f aaiornnd
in advancingl)ewhen
whereof awarded a
ofggratuity
tdy-
from the Patriotic Society. The valour of his ex-
ploit was also acknowledged by a commander's
commission dated on the 12th of the following
Dezember. Admiral HawkMs's subsequent ap-
d
pointments were-18th March, 1814, to the Con-
e utitonel theethe
was
with acta
a attack, and
tlict, sloop, in which vessel he served on the home
station until September, 1815—August 30, 1819,
to a five years' inspectorship in the water guard—
and 13th July, 1830, to the Raleigh, fitting out
for the Mediterranean, whence he reiurniedandwas
paid off May 31, 1834. Rear-Admiral
Febr Hawkins
rceeiv,,d his appointment as captain in. _
.uary,
y had issue
February, 1857. He married,
iher bavary, Esq., of
1835, and rear admiral upi
nt the 1 retired t rieadr
Mary Wise,
,
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aEuffgohrtde r
Smolulythdi
two sons, the youngest, of which
Deg
on,Ci Christopher
by_ _ a
only survives—
Stewart Hawkins, Esq. Admiral Hawkins mar-
ried a second time, November, 1852, to Mary,
lsecond daughter to the late Colonel Spicer, of the
Royal Artillery,