loch. After an attachment of two years to the Surinam 18, Capts. Wm. McKenzie Godfrey, Chas. Crole, and Alfred Matthews, on the West India station, he was there, 25 Nov. 1822, promoted to a death vacancy in the Icarus 10, commanded at first by Capts. Crole and Matthews, and afterwards by Capts. Thos. Stopford and John Geo. Graham. He has been on half-pay since 31 Jan. 1824.
Lieutenant Moss is married. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
MOTTLEY. (Commander, 1843.)
Joseph Martin Mottley entered the Navy 9 Oct. 1812; passed his examination in 1821; and was made Lieutenant, 11 Feb. 1829, into the North Star 28, Capt. Septimus Arabin, on the coast of Africa. He was afterwards appointed – 5 March, 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 5 Oct. 1832, to the Undaunted 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, employed in the East Indies, whence he returned in the early part of 1834 – 7 Nov. 1835, as First, to the Tweed 20, Capt. Thos. Maitland, stationed off Lisbon – 19 Jan. 1837, to the command, for Home service, of the Speedy cutter, of 8 guns – 10 March, 1838, as Senior, to the Dee steamer, Capt. Joseph Sherer, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he continued until superseded in May, 1839 – 7 Aug. 1839, to the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, of which ship, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, he became First-Lieutenant – and, 27 April and 26 July, 1842, in the latter capacity, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir David Milne, and Imaum receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodore Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng. He attained his present rank 24 Jan. 1843; and, since 29 Oct. 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
He married, in 1838, Eliza, youngest daughter of W. Stone, Esq., builder, of Chatham Dockyard. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
MOTTLEY. (Retired Commander, 1845.)
Samuel Mottley died in 1845. He was brother of the late Admiral Mottley.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince 98, Capt. Sam. Sutton, flag-ship in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton, whom he followed into the Prince George 98. Becoming Midshipman, in Feb. 1801, of the Caesar 80, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he took part in the actions fought, 6 and 12 July following, oif Algeciras and in the Gut of Gibraltar. In the course of 1802 he successively joined the Leda frigate, Capt. Hardy, and Rambler sloop, Capt. Thos. Innes; and on 2 July, 1803, he was on board La Minerve, of 48 guns, Capt. Jahleel Brenton, when that ship took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, in spite of a desperate and sanguinary resistance, to strike her colours. Being restored to liberty in Oct. 1806, he was appointed (after a brief attachment, on the Home and West India stations, to the Royal William, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, Northumberland 74, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, and Heureux 24, Capt. John Ellis Watt) to the command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Alliance schooner, 5 March, 1807. In the ensuing Dec. he removed, with the rank last mentioned, to the Haughty gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Mitchell. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 20 May, 1808, and was afterwards appointed – 28 of the same month, to the Christian VII. 80, Capt. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, in the Channel – 12 July, 1810, to the Macedonian, of 48 guns and 254 men, Capts. Lord Wm. FitzRoy and John Surman Carden, off Lisbon – 26 Nov. 1813, to the Bulwark 74, Capt. David Milne, on the North American station – in Nov. 1814, for passage home, to the Loire 38, Capt. John Nash – and, 6 June, 1815, to the Albion 74, Capt. Philip Somerville. As Second-Lieutenant of the Macedonian, Mr. Mottley elicited the highest acknowledgments of Capt. Garden for his conduct, on 25 Oct. 1812, in a desperate action of 2 hours and 10 minutes, which rendered that frigate a shattered prize, after experiencing a loss of 36 men killed and 68 wounded, to the American ship United States, of 56 guns and 474 men, 12 of whom only appear to have been killed and wounded.[1] In the Bulwark, besides sharing in other operations, he commanded a boat, in a manner that obtained him much praise, at the destruction, up the Penobscot, of the American frigate Adams, 3 Sept. 1814[2] Quitting the Albion in Sept. 1815, Lieut. Mottley’s next appointments were – in the summer of 1815, and in July, 1823, and March, 1825, to the command of the Hardwicke, Bat, and Camelion Revenue-cruizers – 25 April, 1834, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth, where he remained, latterly as Senior of the Victory 104, Capt. Thos. Searle, until the spring of 1837 – and, 30 Dec. 1837, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued nearly six years and a half. He accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List 30 April, 1845, a short time only prior to his death.
Commander Mottley married, 3 Aug. 1819, Maria Dundas Beatson, of Campbell Town, by whom he has left issue. Agent – J. Hinxman.
MOTTLEY. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Mottley died 13 July, 1845, as related beneath, aged 27. He was son of Geo. Henry Mottley, Esq., of Portsmouth, the talented editor of the ‘Hampshire Telegraph.’
This officer entered the Navy 14 April, 1830; passed his examination 5 July, 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 30 Aug. 1841, was serving as Mate of the Wasp 16, Capt. Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, in which sloop he had assisted, under Capt. Geo. Mansel, at the capture of St. Jean d’Acre. His succeeding appointments were – 2 Sept. 1841, again to the Wasp – 21 June, 1842 (soon after his return from the Mediterranean), to the Thunder surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Barnett, on the North America and West India station – 10 Jan. 1844, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa – and, 27 Sept. 1844, a third time, to the Wasp, then commanded by Capt. Sidney Henry Ussher. He died of fever at Ascension, as above, on board the Penelope, while on his passage to rejoin the Wasp, after having taken to Sierra Leone a slave-brig captured by her. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MOUAT. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 20; h-p., 23.)
John Alexander Mouat, born about 1793, is son of Commander Alexander Mouat, R.N., who was a Midshipman with Capt. Cook during his voyages, and died fom fever while in command of the Rattlesnake sloop, in the West Indies, in 1793; and grandson of Capt. Patrick Mouat, R.N., who commanded the Tamer on a voyage of discovery with Admiral Byron. One of his uncles died in the Assistance while in command of the North American station; and two others were killed in action in the London, off St. Domingo.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Zebra bomb, Capt. Wm. Standway Parkinson, with whom he continued to serve, as Midshipman, in the Merlin, Wasp, and Favorite sloops, on the Home and West India stations, until 1808 – assisting, when in the Favorite at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix. He then returned home in the Thais 20, Capt. Wm. Ferris; and in Dec. 1808 after having served for seven months in the Isis 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, he joined the Africaine 38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, under whom we find him employed in escorting Lord Hill’s brigade from Cork to Lisbon, the Duke of Orleans from Portsmouth to Malta, Mr. Jackson, the British Ambassador, to the
