William Trewren , the second Lieutenant, who is likewise a deserving good officer, to whose zeal and activity the service stands much indebted[1]. I cannot pass over in silence the assistance I received from Mr. G. D. Louis, acting master, whose exertions in manoeuvring the brig, so as to completely foil the enemy’s schemes to rake, evinced great professional skill, and whose conduct the whole of the time was highly meritorious; as well as that ef Mr. Z. Webb, the purser, who volunteered his services in the direction of the small-arm men and marines.”
Captain Gill and his first Lieutenant were both promoted in consequence of this action, their respective commissions bearing date Jan. 16, 1809. We next find the former officer commanding the St. Domingo 74, which ship bore the flag of Sir Richard J. Strachan, at the reduction of Flushing, in the month of August following.
Captain Gill’s last appointment was, Dec. 20, 1812, to the Cleopatra, 32, then on the Halifax station; which frigate he paid off about July 1814. He married, Mar. 28, 1822, Harriet, second daughter of the late Captain W. White, R.N., whose widow is a matron of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
JAMES WILKES MAURICE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1809.]
This officer was born at Devonport, Feb. 10, 1775. He entered the royal navy in 1789, and served as a midshipman on board the Inspector sloop, successively commanded by Captains Alexander Mackey and James Leakey, until that vessel was paid off at the close of 1791; after which he passed several months on shore, under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Malham, an able mathematician.
In Dec. 1792, Mr. Maurice joined the Powerful 74, Captain Thomas Hicks, which ship (at the commencement of hostilities between Great Britain and France) escorted a fleet of outward-bound Indiamen to the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope, and when on her return home touched at St. Helena, where she captured a valuable French merchantman, whose commander had not yet heard of the war.
The Powerful was subsequently fitted for the flag of Rear-Admiral Ford, commander-in-chief at Jamaica; but Mr. Maurice was prevented from proceeding to that station, in
- ↑ Lieutenant Trewren died Dec. 24, 1812, aged 23.
