HALL, BASH

(1788-1844), a British naval officer, 6. at Edinburgh. He entered the navy in 1801, and was present at the battie of Corunna in 1809, on board the Endymion. In 1816 he went to China with Lord Amherst’s emba y, and described the incidents of. the commi ion and the explorations in the Eastern seas, etc., in his Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Islands, 1818. He also published Philosophical Transactions; Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico; and Fragments of Voyages and Travels, which contains, besides the subject-matter of the title, some interesting accounts of the navy in the early part of the 19th Century. In 1842 H.’s mind gave way, and he ended his days in Haslar Hospital.