gun-boat No. 7, and employed in the defence of that place. He went back to the Alfred in the ensuing April, but left her in Sept. of the same year; and was lastly, from 6 Aug. 1813 to 7 July, 1814, stationed off the coast of Ireland in the Avon sloop, Capt. Geo. Rose Sartorius.
He is in the receipt, for his wounds, of a pension of 91l. 5s.
MARRETT. (Retired Captain, 1845. f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
Joseph Marrett entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Crescent of 42 guns and 257 men, Capt. Jas. Saumarez; and on 20 of the following Oct. was present at the capture of the French frigate La Réunion of 36 guns and 320 men, 120 of whom were either killed or wounded, without however any casualty to the British. In Dec. of the same year he accompanied an expedition under Earl Moira and Rear-Admiral M‘Bride to the coasts of Normandy and Brittany; and on 8 June, 1794, we find him in action with an enemy’s squadron of very superior force, from which the Crescent escaped by the most bold and masterly manoeuvres. On afterwards accompanying Sir Jas. Saumarez (who had been knighted for the capture of La Réunion) into the Orion 74, he shared in Lord Bridport’s action, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, and in the victory of the Nile. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Canopus 80, Capt. Bartholomew James, after having acted for nearly five months in that capacity, 5 April, 1799; and was subsequently appointed – 12 Aug. 1799, to the Royal Sovereign 100, flag-ship of Lord Gardner and Sir Henry Harvey in the Channel, where he served until Oct. 1801 – 19 Sept. 1803, to the Eurus sloop, Capt. Alex. Innes, on the Cork station – 24 Nov. 1804, and 8 April, 1805, to the successive command of two gun-brigs, in the latter of which, the Martial, he served in the Channel and off the coast of Spain until compelled by ill health to invalid in Nov. 1809 – and, 29 Sept. 1810, to the Ulysses 44 as Flag-Lieutenant, on the Guernsey station, to the Duc de Bouillon. He was made Commander 26 May, 1812; and accepted his present rank 20 Oct. 1845.
Capt. Marrett’s eldest daughter was the wife of the late Lieut. Wakeman Edwards, R.N. (1810). Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
MARRIOTT. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 14; h-p., 2.)
George Marriott entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1831; served for nearly six years and a half as Volunteer and Midshipman on the West India station; passed his examination 5 Dec. 1837; and during the next four years and a half was employed in the capacity of Mate on the coast of Africa, where the valour he exhibited in command of a boat belonging to the Rolla 10, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Hall, procured him a commission dated 15 Aug. 1842. His appointments have since been – 20 Oct. 1843, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley – 9 March, 1844, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa, whence he returned in the summer of 1845 – and 26 May, 1846, to the Trafalgar 120, Capt. John Neale Nott, now employed on particular service. Agest – Joseph Woodhead.
MARRYAT, C.B., F.R.S., F.L.S. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 15; h-p., 26.)
Frederick Marryat, born 10 July, 1792, in London, is second son of the late Joseph Marryat, Esq., M.P. for Sandwich, Chairman of the Committee at Lloyd’s, and Colonial Agent for the island of Grenada, by Charlotte, third daughter of the late Fred. Geyer, Esq., a distinguished American loyalist, who suffered much from the fervency of his attachment to the Throne at the period of the separation of Great Britain from her colonies. He is brother of Joseph Marryat, Esq., formerly M.P. for Sandwich; and a descendant of Le Sieur Thos. Marriatte, a Protestant native of Normandy, and an officer in the Huguenot army, who, having escaped the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 24 Aug. 1572, fled to England with the loss of all his property. His grandfather, Thos. Marryat, Esq., M.D., was the author of a work entitled ‘Therapeutics, or the Art of Healing.’
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Sept. 1806, as a Volunteer, on board the Impérieuse, 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane and Thos. Garth, in which ship he remained until Oct. 1809. While under the gallant Cochrane he contributed to the capture and destruction, within one month, of three French national transports and 12 merchant-vessels, and also to the demolition of Fort Roquette, at the entrance of Arcasson; served in the boats when they incurred a loss of 16 men killed and wounded in effecting the capture of a Maltese privateer, supposed until the moment of her surrender to be an enemy’s vessel, 15 Nov. 1807; was present at the cutting-out of a Turkish ship from Port Valona, on the coast of Dalmatia; assisted, in the year 1808, during a cruize of four months off the coast of Catalonia and among the Balearic islands, in taking and destroying one national brig, six gun-vessels, one privateer, and about 50 sail of merchantmen; aided, 31 July, 1808, in reducing and levelling the castle of Mongat, by which the road from Barcelona to Gerona, besieged at the time by the French, had been completely commanded; participated in a variety of dashing operations on the coast of France during the ensuing months of Aug. and Sept.; landed on returning to the shores of Catalonia, and was particularly mentioned for his conduct at the defence of Trinidad Castle, attached to the fortress of Rosas, against a whole French army, 1000 of whose picked men were completely repulsed by 80 of the British, supported by an equal number of Spaniards, on the occasion of an assault made by the former, 30 Nov. 1808;[1] aided, 30 Dec. following, in obtaining possession, in the harbour of Cadaques, after a short action, of the enemy’s batteries, two national vessels, and 12 merchantmen, laden with wheat for the garrison of Barcelona; and, besides acting a part in other affairs of an equally spirited character, served with credit in an explosion-vessel under Lieut. Urry Johnson in the memorable attack made upon the French shipping in Aix Roads 11 April, 1809, and was on board the Impérieuse the next day, when, unsupported, she approached the Calcutta of 56 guns, and compelled that ship to strike her colours. In Oct. 1809, at which period he was with the Flushing expedition, Mr. Marryat took a passage to England in the Victorious 74, and on his arrival joined the Centaur 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, with whom he soon again sailed for the Mediterranean. He returned towards the close of the following year in the Atlas 74, Capt. Jas. Sanders; and was next, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Dec. 1812, employed, on the Home, West India, and North American stations, in the Namur 74, Capt. Alex. Shippard, Africa 64, Capt. John Bastard, Chub schooner, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Nisbett, Aeolus and Spartan frigates, Capts. Lord Jas. Townshend and Edw. Pelham Brenton, and Royal William, Capt. Geo. Fowke. On 30 Sept. 1811 we find him earning the general admiration of the ship’s company, and the high approval of his Captain, for his courageous conduct, when no other person would attempt it, in leading the way aloft during a tremendous gale from the S.E., which had laid the Aeolus on her beam-ends, and had literally blown away her topmasts and mizen-mast, for the purpose of cutting away the mainyard, as the only means left of saving the mainmast and righting the ship. In Aug. 1812, a few days prior to his discharge from the Spartan, he appears to have been engaged in two boat-attacks in Haycos Harbour and Little River, the result of which was the capture of six American armed vessels. In the capacity of Lieutenant, Mr. Marryat was appointed – 8 Jan. 1813, to the Espiègle sloop, Capt. John Taylor, on the West India station, whence he returned in the next April – and 31 Jan. 1814, to
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 307.
