Col de Balaguer, near Tortosa, armed with 12 pieces of ordnance, including 2 10-inch mortars and 2 howitzers, with a garrison of 101 officers and men. From Oct. 1809 to May, 1811, Mr. Munro, we may observe, had been allowed to serve on board the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander. On finally leaving the Invincible, in Jan. 1814, he became attached as a Supernumerary to the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. Robt. Hall, lying at Plymouth, and next, in the course of the same year, as Master’s Mate, to the Leander 50, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, on the North American station. In Aug. 1815 he took up a commission dated 4 of the preceding March; and he was subsequently, 4 July and 17 Oct. 1816, appointed to the Impregnable 104 and Leander again, the latter bearing the flag of Sir David Milne at Halifax. While in the Impregnable he commanded a gun-boat. No. 1, at the bombardment of Algiers. He was superseded from the Leander 19 June, 1818, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Munro married, in Feb. 1822, Philadelphia Jane Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-General Monro, of Edmondsham House, Dorset, by whom he has issue a daughter. Agents ¦ – Hallett and Robinson.
MUNTON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
William Anthony Munton passed his examination 7 Oct. 1835; and was for several years employed in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the Inconstant 36, Capts. Daniel Pring and Fred. Thos. Michell. On 8 Nov. 1844, while serving on board the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was re-appointed to the Caledonia, in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant, 11 Dec. following; and he was next, from 4 Jan. 1845 until the close of 1846, stationed on the coast of Africa in the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel.
MURIEL. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
William Muriel, born 7 May, 1794, at Ely, co. Cambridge, is son of Robt. Muriel, Esq., Surgeon.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hero 74, Capts. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner and John Poo Beresford. On 4 Nov. following he fought in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action with the four line-of-battle ships escaped from Trafalgar; and on 13 March, 1806, he witnessed the capture of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. After a servitude of 17 months in the Channel on board the Dragon 74, he rejoined his first Commander, then Rear-Admiral Gardner, in the Bellerophon 74; in the boats of which ship, on her arrival in the Baltic, we find him in perpetual contact with the enemy’s gun-boats, batteries, &c. While next attached, between June, 1810, and Sept. 1812, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton, and Éclair sloop, Capts. Wm. Gregory, John Bellamy, and Fairfax Moresby, he saw much similar service in the Adriatic. On 15 of the month last mentioned he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Mermaid 32, armée en flûte, commanded by the present Sir David Dunn, with whom (the appointment being confirmed by commission dated 5 Dec. 1812) he continued until Nov. 1814. He took part, in consequence, in the siege of Trieste (where e served on shore and in the boats), also in the attack upon Leghorn, and in the capture of Genoa. His last appointment was, 2 Oct. 1817, to the Bulwark 74, Capts. Geo. M‘Kinley, Sam. Warren, Fras. Newcombe, and Alex. Skene; from which ship, stationed at Shecrness, he was lent to the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, for the purpose of escorting the Duke and Duchess of Clarence from Dunkerque to England. He has been on half-pay since 1820.
Lieut. Muriel married, in 1828, Miss Catherine M. Alexander, of London, and by that lady has issue a son and two daughters.
MURLEY. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
William Murley entered the Navy, in Jan. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Belleisle 74, Capts. Wm. Domett, Chas. Boyles, John Whitby, and Wm. Hargood. In that ship, of which he was created Midshipman in the following Sept., he continued employed until Jan. 1806; serving at first in the Channel and Mediterranean, then accompanying Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined fleets, and finally participating, as Signal-Midshipman, in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. In Jan. 1807 he sailed for Buenos Ayres in the Thisbe 28, Capt. Lewis Shepheard; and on his arrival he was received on board the Diadem 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling. He was thus afforded an opportunity of witnessing, again as Signal-Midshipman, the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres, and the other operations which immediately preceded the evacuation of Spanish America. On his return to England he successively joined, in the early part of 1808, the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Gambier, both lying at Chatham. He was made Lieutenant, 29 June in the same year, into the Crocus 14, Capts. Robt. Merrick Fowler, Hon. Wm. Walpole, Rich. Buck, and John Bellamy; and next appointed, 18 Dec. 1810 and 8 May, 1811, to the Medusa 32, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew. When First of the Crocus, we find him commanding a flat-bottomed gun-boat at the siege of Flushing in 1809 : he served, in the Medusa, off Bordeaux; and in the Caledonia he was present in a partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813. He left the last-mentioned ship in Jan. 1814, having been awarded the rank of Commander on 29 of the preceding October; and he has since been on half-pay. He married, in June, 1815, Miss Mary Murley, a lady by whom he has issue six children.
MURRAY. (Commander, 1840. f-p., 23; h-p., 5.)
Alexander Murray entered the Navy, 26 March, 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cherokee 10, Capt. Theobald Jones; and in the course of the same year sailed, as Midshipman of the Leander 60, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, for the East Indies; where, in Aug. 1822, he joined the Sophie 18, Capts. Geo. French, Geo. Fred. Ryves, and Edw. Blanckley. Uniting, in 1824, in the hostilities against Ava, he found frequent opportunity of distinction, and was present, in the course of that year, at the occupation of Pegu and the capture and defence of Rangoon. He also, in 1825, served in the Sophie’s boats when the British advanced up the River Irawady; and he came into contact with the enemy at Panlang, Donoobew, and Meaday, In Feb. 1826 he returned to England, as Mate, in the Liffey 50, Commodore Coe. After he had further served in that capacity on the Mediterranean and Home stations in the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, Gloucester 74, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Henry Stuart, Ferret 10, Capt. Thos. Hastings, and Asia again, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he was promoted, 6 July, 1829, to a Lieutenancy in the Mastiff surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, whom he followed, early in 1830, into the Meteor. He came home in Dec. 1831, and was next appointed – 2 Dec. 1834, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 20 July, 1835, as Gunnery-Lieutenant, to the Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, off Lisbon – and, 11 Feb. 1837, in a similar capacity, to the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, again in the Mediterranean. For his services during the campaign in Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre, he was promoted to the rank of Commander 4 Nov. 1840. When off Beyrout, in the preceding Sept., he had been sent on shore, with a flag-of-truce and a letter addressed by Sir R. Stopford and the French Rear-Admiral Baudiera, to
