months in the Narcissus 32, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, and then rejoined Capt. Newman, as Master’s Mate, on board the Hero 74. In Aug. 1809 he was sent in command of a gun-boat to co-operate in the attack upon Flushing. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 18 July, 1810, and was employed, during the last three years of the war, in the Opossum 10, Capt. Thos. Wolrige, and Valiant 74, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver, on the West India and North American stations. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
M‘DOUALL. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 30.)
James M‘Douall died 30 Dec. 1845.
This officer entered the Nayy, 27 July, 1795, as A.B., on board the Zebra sloop, Capts. Norborne Thompson, David M‘Iver, and John Hurst, in which vessel, stationed in the West Indies, he continued to serve, in the capacities of Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, until transferred, 25 April, 1797, to a Master’s Mateship in the Intrepid 64, Capts. Robt. Parker and Wm. Hargood. In Sept. 1801, after having again acted as Lieutenant in the ship last mentioned, Mr. M‘Douall, then in the East Indies, became Master’s Mate of the Arrogant 74, Capt. Edw. Oliver Osborne; and on 11 of the following month he was appointed, a third time, to the post of Acting-Lieutenant in the Trident 64, Capts. Thos. Surridge, Chas. Jas. Johnston, Peter Rainier, and Benj. Wm. Page, bearing the flag for a period of Vice- Admiral Rainier. Being confirmed to the Trident by commission dated 22 April, 1802, he continued attached to her, on the East India station, until Oct. 1805. While cruizing next, for a few months in 1806, in the Belleisle 74, Capt. Wm. Hargood, we find him assisting at the destruction, off Cape Henry, on the American coast, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impétueux. Between Aug. 1807 and his advancement to the rank of Commander 12 Oct. 1814, he served on the West India, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Collingwood, Northumberland 74, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Hon. Henry Hotham, Asia and Barham 74’s, both commanded by Capt. John Wm. Spranger, and San Josef and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships of Lord Keith. His last employments were, from 15 Nov. 1814 to 6 Sept. 1816, as Regulating officer and Commandant of gun-boats at Greenock – and, from 21 March 1816 to 25 March, 1819, as Superintendent of the Ordinary at Portsmouth.
M‘DOUGALL. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
John M‘Dougall entered the Navy, 1 April, 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Vestal 28, Capt. John M‘Dougall, attached to the force on the Home station, where he further, until the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 26 April, 1800, served as Midshipman and Acting-Lieutenant in the Asia 64, Capt. J. M‘Dougall, Savage sloop, Capt. G. Winckworth, and Edgar 74, Capts. J. M‘Dougall and Edw. Buller. He was then employed for several months at the blockade of Dunkerque in the Atalante sloop, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths; on leaving which vessel he proceeded to the West Indies, and there cruized, during the remainder of the war, in the Crescent 36, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb and Jas. Carthew. In July, 1804, after he had been for 14 months employed in the Sea-Fencibles at Southend in Essex, Mr.M‘Dougall obtained an appointment to the Hecla bomb, in which vessel, commanded by Capts. Sykes and Scott, we find him assisting at the bombardment of Havre in July and Aug. 1804. Joining next the Caesar 80, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Sir Rich. John Strachan, he was afforded an opportunity of participating in that ship in the action off Ferrol 4 Nov. 1805. In Dec. 1806, his health compelling him to invalid, he sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a merchant-vessel, carrying with him Sir R. J. Strachan’s despatches. It was his misfortune however, on 13 of the following month, to fall, when off Scilly, into the hands of a French privateer, by whom he was taken a prisoner to France, where he remained in captivity until April 1814. Returning then to England, he assumed, 11 May, 1815, the command, which he held until 23 March, 1816, of the Telegraph station at Beacon Hill in Kent. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 1 Dec. 1830; and on the Senior 9 Dec. 1844.
M‘DOUGALL. (Captain, 1836. f-p., 19; h-p., 26.)
John M‘Dougall, born in 1790, at Edinburgh, is eldest surviving son of the late Patrick M‘Dougall, Esq., of Dunolly Castle, co. Argyle, by Louisa Maxwell, youngest daughter of John Campbell, Esq., of Achalader, in Perthshire, and sister of the late Generals Sir Alex. Campbell, Commander-in-Chief at Madras, and Archibald Campbell, Governor of Fort Augustus, N.B. His elder brother, Alexander, a Captain in the 5th Regt. of Foot, was killed at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo in Jan. 1812; and his next, Patrick, is now a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Capt. M‘Dougall’s family are the undisputed lineal representatives of the M‘Dougalls Lords of Lorn, or of Argyle, and are the admitted chiefs of that name.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Hancock, and in the course of the following year was five times in action with the enemy between Calais and Flushing, once in particular, 14 June, when the Cruizer, in company with the Immortality 36 and Jalouse 18, assisted at the capture of the French gun-brigs L’Inabordable and La Commode after an hour’s engagement with the batteries on the east part of Cape Blanc-nez. In June, 1804, after having been in frequent contact with the enemy in the Doris 36, Capt. Patrick Campbell, he became Midshipman of the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Thos. Graves. He went back, however, in the following Dec. to the Doris, and was in that frigate in Jan. 1805 when she was set on fire and abandoned near the mouth of the Loire, in consequence of her having struck upon a sunken rock in the vicinity of Quiberon, and sustained so much damage as to render her preservation impossible. Joining then the Hero 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, he shared in the action fought by Sir Robt. Calder with the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Finisterre 22 July, 1805; after which he joined the Chiffonne 36, Capt. P. Campbell, Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and, in June, 1806, the Unité 36, Capt. P. Campbell. He commanded, during his attachment to the latter ship, a boat at the destruction of five vessels under a battery near the town of Omago, in the Adriatic, 18 Oct. 1806; assisted, ten days afterwards, at the storming of a battery and the capture of several sail of merchantmen near Point Salvooy; was present at the reduction, 28 April, 1807, of the island of St. Piedro de Niembo; had charge, 12 June following, of a division of boats at the capture of several vessels in the river Po, and the annihilation of two signal posts; participated, in command of a boat, in a successful attack made upon a French privateer near Ancona, 12 Jan. 1808; contrived, in an eight-oared cutter, to take possession, 24 March in the same year, after a sharp engagement, of another privateer, carrying 2 guns and 36 men; contributed, 2 May ensuing, to the capture of the Italian brig-of-war Il Ronco, of 16 guns and 100 men; aided, three days later, in cutting out several vessels from under the batteries at Paran; enacted a part, on 1 June, at the simultaneous capture of the Nettuno and Toulie brigs, equal in force to Il Ronco; took command of the boats on 4 of the same month, and succeeded in making prize, notwithstanding a desperate and mutually destructive conflict, of three Turkish ships and several coasting-vessels under Cape Palero; was on board the Unité when she beat off, 18 Dec.
