line Robuste and Lion. Removing, in Sept. 1811, to the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was for about 18 months employed in that ship in the Adriatic, where he aided in blockading the French and Venetian squadrons at Venice, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea, and several of each class fitting in the arsenal. In Feb. 1814, having returned with convoy to England, and been for a short time engaged at the blockade of Cherbourg, he became Master’s Mate of the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel, whence, in the course of the same year, he sailed for North America with Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in the Royal Oak 74. After witnessing, as Supernumerary-Midshipman on promotion of the Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, the attack on New Orleans, he was nominated, 19 May, 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the Belle Poule troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Baker. On his arrival home in the ensuing summer he found that he had been officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 6 of the preceding Feb. His succeeding appointments were – 19 May, 1818, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flagship of Sir Geo. Campbell at Portsmouth, where he served until paid off in 1821 – 30 April, 1827, to the Brittania 120, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth – 22 Sept. 1828, and 28 April, 1830, to the Asia 84, and Brittania again, in which ships he continued employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea, under the flag of Sir P. Malcolm, until the close of 1831 – and, 8 March, 1833, a third time, to the Britannia, as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 April, 1834; and, from 29 March, 1837, until the spring of 1840, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MORGAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Robert Morgan (a) entered the Navy, 18 May, 1803, as L.M., on board the Termagant sloop, Capt. Robt. Pettet, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, from May, 1805, until Aug. 1808, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Bittern 18, Capts. John Louis, Edw. Aug. Down, and Thos. Ussher. He then proceeded to the Brazils in the Brilliant, Capt. Thos. Smyth, and next to the Cape of Good Hope in the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson. In July, 1810, he joined the Hannibal 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Williams off Lisbon; and after a servitude of two years and nine months on that station, he removed, in April, 1811, to the Dragon 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey in the West Indies; where, between Oct. 1812 and May, 1813, he acted as Master of the Swaggerer gun-brig, Lieutenant-Commander Chas. Dayman Jermy. In Oct. of the latter year he arrived in England in the Surinam sloop, Capt. Thos. Martin; in which vessel, since the date last mentioned, he had been officiating as Acting-Lieutenant. On 22 June, 1814, after he had been for six months borne as Supernumerary-Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the books of the Asia 74 and Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane in North America, he was there again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Hebrus frigate, Capt. Edm. Palmer; as he was subsequently, in April and May, 1815, in the Gorée and Pylades sloops, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Stone Cotgrave. On his return to England in the ensuing July he took up a commission bearing date 9 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MORGAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 35.)
Robert Morgan (b) is third son of the late Thos. Morgan, Esq., Recorder of Clonekilty, co. Cork.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Feb. 1800, as Ordinary (after seven years’ employment in the merchant-service, latterly in the capacity of Mate), on board the Inflexible 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, under whom he took part in the operations in Egypt in 1801. Returning to England in the early part of 1802, he next, in May, 1804, joined the Loire 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; on leaving which ship in the following July he was received on board the Triton frigate, Capt. Wm. Cashman, off Waterford. In Aug. 1806 he became Master’s Mate of the Active 38, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and Jas. Alex. Gordon; under the former of whom, in Feb. 1807, he accompanied Sir John Duckworth past the Dardanells, and on that occasion was so stunned by the explosion of a gun that the blood gushed out of both ears, and he ultimately lost all sense of hearing, although, from the accident not being properly reported, he was never able to procure compensation. While attached, from May, 1809, to April, 1811, to the Alfred 74, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, he witnessed the capture of Flushing and Guadeloupe, and was also present at the defence of Cadiz, where he commanded a gun-boat, and had every oar shot away while retreating from under a battery, without, fortunately, any of his crew being touched.[1] After further serving with Capt. Watson in the Implacable 74, with Admirals Sir Robt. Calder and Lord Keith in the Salvador del Mundo and Queen Charlotte (of which latter ship he officiated as Second-Master from 26 March, 1813, to 30 Aug. 1814), with Capts. J. Richards and Geo. McKinley in the Namur 74, and with Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane in the Orontes 36 on the Mediterranean and Home stations, he took up, in Nov. 1815, a commission bearing date 15 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Morgan married, first, in 1804 or 1805; and, again, in 1830. By his first wife he has living two sons (both of whom, educated at the Naval School at Greenwich, are now in the merchant-service) and one daughter.
MORIARTY. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Merion Marshall Moriarty is brother of Commander Wm. Moriarty, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, successive flag-ship of Admirals Wm. Essington and Sir Chas. Cotton, with the latter of whom, after assisting at the reduction of Copenhagen, he removed, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1808, to the Hibernia 110, and proceeded off Lisbon. In Nov. 1812, up to which period he had been further employed under the orders of Sir C. Cotton, and also of Lord Keith, in the San Josef 110, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, he joined the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, cruizing among the Western Islands. He removed, in Aug. 1814, to the Cydnus 38, Capt. Fred. Langford, attached to the Channel fleet, where he served until Feb. 1814. In the following summer he proceeded to the West Indies as Acting-Lieutenant of the Hazard sloop, Capt. John Cookesley, in which vessel, being confirmed to her 26 Sept. following, he afterwards visited Newfoundland. He invalided home in Sept. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Moriarty, who had previously had command for several years of the Bristol Company’s steam-ship Queen, has filled the appointment, since
- ↑ On resigning his command in the Cadiz flotilla, Mr. Morgan received from Commodore Hall, under whose orders he had been serving, a certificate couched in so peculiar and original a style that we cannot resist affording it insertion: –
“Mr. Morgan, it seems, having now bid adieu
To the gun-boat that lately was called ‘Twenty-two,’
And having determined to serve us no more,
A certificate wants from his old Commodore.
Now what can I say but he commanded her well,
And escaped twice or thrice from the verges of hell, –
That I wish him Success, tho’ he quits my pennant,
And hope from my heart he’ll be made Lieutenant?
His merits are great – to enumerate all
Would worry the patience of Commodore Hall;
But I trust that his services, merits, and feats,
Will merit the attention of Admiral Keats.”
