MEN OF THE DAY. No. 179.

ADMIRAL HOBART PASHA.

THE Hobarts have taken a prominent, and sometimes a wilful, part in public affairs for three hundred years. It was a Hobart who held the Speaker in the chair for the Commons to pass resolutions against Charles I., and who locked the door of the House while it was being done. Another Hobart was equerry to William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne, and, being killed in a duel, his son was made a Peer by the second George as Lord Hobart, a title afterwards improved into that the family now holds of the Earldom of Buckinghamshire.

The Honourable Augustus Charles Hobart was born six-and-fifty years ago, and, being a younger son, was sent into the Navy. He soon was found to be an intelligent boy and a dashing officer. He distinguished himself first as a midshipman in an encounter with a slaver, and in reward for this was, at three-and-twenty, appointed to the Queen's yacht, in which he served for two years. He subsequently took part in the war with Russia, and commanded the *Driver* in the attack on Bomarsund, and the mortar-boats during the attack and burning of Sweaborg, for which he received promotion. Having attained his post rank, and finding naval affairs dull in Europe, he passed his leisure in gaining experience as a sailor and navigator by daringly running the blockade of the Confederate ports. In 1868, however, he found a new field of action in the Turkish Navy, with which he took service, and under his new flag soon made himself felt by entirely putting a stop to the Greek supplies sent to the Cretan insurgents, and by thus completely bringing to an end the so-called revolution in the island. During the Russo-Turkish war, after running the gauntlet of Russian batteries and torpedoes in the Danube, he has maintained the undisputed command of the seas for the Turks, and has twice met and foiled attacks upon his vessels by means of torpedoes of the most dreaded kind.

Hobart Pasha is still a thorough English sailor—frank, outspoken, downright in all his acts, and little careful of their results, so that they satisfy himself. Withal he is vigorous, energetic, and full of dash, and as hale and active as a boy. He drinks nothing but water.

MEN OF THE DAY. No. 179.

ADMIRAL HOBART PASHA.

Hobart Pasha is still a thorough English sailor—frank, outspoken, downright in all his acts, and little careful of their results, so that they satisfy himself. Withial he is vigorous, energetic, and full of dash, and as hale and active as a boy. He drinks nothing but water.

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