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Show the West Indio iu vcrjreturncu, but he came by another vessel. He remained in the merchant scYvice for some years, and was twice "pressed" into the n ivy, When the French invaded Irelitvl in i;9v, Mr Hale was taken prisoner by the French and put on board a French man-o-war, but he only remained in captivity a f;w days. At the siege of flushing he received a bayonet wound. The Eng'ish landed on the shore, but the attack was so close that they had to reembark, and in doing so he was struck on the back" with ; .'yonet. He v. as in the never to be forgotten battle of Trafalgar, Tra-falgar, in the year i3oj, still connected con-nected with the navy. We are not aware of any other survivor of the j Trafalgar battle; we believe wemay speak positively in reference to this neighborhood. The circumstances j connected with this battle are so memorable, that anv survivor of that l struggle is of historic interest, and th-r events cons v 'ercon give peculiar interest to the life of those who were actively engaged in bringing bring-ing about the destruction of. the combined Meets. He continued in the navy under Admiral Collingwocd until abouj the year i8ij, being engaged after the battle of Trafalgar, Trafal-gar, chiefly in blockading the French ports and harassing the French in the Spanish ports during the Peninsular Penin-sular war. On returning to England Eng-land he landed at Bristol, and, what would be considered a feat in these days of railways, walked from Bristol Bris-tol to Burnley. We may mention an amusing incident which took place at Liverpool. The press gang in search of seamen followed Mr. Hale who ran away into a public house. He ran upstairs, lifted the window shutter, went through and got into a rain tub outside, preferring prefer-ring to remain a short time up to the knees in water in a rain tub to a further service at sea. By this ingenious in-genious act he succeeded in evading the naval man catchers, He mar- ried aud settled down in Burnley. He hardly knew what kind of occupation occu-pation to follow, but he made an unsuccessful attempt to learn the art of handloom weaving. He next went to the coal pit (one of those' owned by Col. Hargrcaves) but as he quaintly put it, he did not like the dark hole, and almost, made np his mind to go to sea again. He went to the pit mouth several times and then screwed up his courage and went down. Finding that he could work the same as other men "in the dark hole," he remained at the occupation of a miner for seven years and saved 10 a year, being a total of 70. With this he commenced com-menced business as a grocer in Lane-biidge and continued to carry on a fairly successful business for the unusual period of 50 years. He spent the last years of his life with j his son Henry in Parker lane where he died. Ex. . Death of a Trafalgar Veteran- Published by request. Our obituary last week contained a brief notice of the death of Henry Hale, who departed this life, Feb. 24, 1875. As the deceased was a seaman under Lord Nelson, during the battle of Trafalgar, and one of the few survivors of that battle, some further particulars will be interesting to the public. He was born Oct. 1)5, 1782, and was therefore there-fore in his ninty-third year. He entered the merchant service at sea when he was twelve years old, and j the first vcjbsI on which he went to |