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Rh the same year he succeeded, in command of a boat, in driving on shore, under a heavy fire of musketry, an enemy’s supply and despatch boat, armed with a cohorn. On 16 Oct. 1808, at which period he had been for 10 months serving on the coast of North America in the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, he was made Lieutenant into the  38, Capt. Geo. Scott, on the same station; where he was appointed, in the ensuing Nov. and in Aug. 1810, First of the 18, Capts. Lord Jas. Townshend, John Thompson, and Alex. Fraser, and 20, Capt. John Lawrence. In the latter vessel, which he left in Sept. 1811, he also cruized in the North Sea. His last appointments were, 25 Oct. 1813 and 7 Sept. 1814, to the 74, Capt. Peter Heywood, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the  14, Capt. Chas. Warde, on the North Sea and Irish stations. He commanded the boats of the for three months between Walcheren and South Beveland, with nothing during that period to sleep on but a few signal-flags. The hardships he then underwent had the effect, after he had joined the, of producing paralysis, of depriving him of the use of his limbs, and of greatly impairing the sight of his left eye. He invalided in consequence 28 Nov. 1814. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander 27 Jan. 1846.

Commander Tulloh married, first, in 1812, Mary, daughter of the Rev. F. Reynett, of Waterford; and secondly, 12 July, 1830, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Morris, Esq., J. P., of Harbour View, co. Waterford, by whom he has issue one daughter. By his former wife he had issue seven children.

 TULLY. 

was born in 1788.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Isaac Wolley, lying in the river Humber. Removing, in March; 1805, to the 64, Capts. Sir Home Popham and Sam. Warren, he was afforded an opportunity, while in that ship, of serving on shore with the army at the capture, in 1806-7, of the Cape of Good Hope, Buenos Ayres, Maldonado, and Monte Video. On 13 Oct. in the latter year and 13 Aug. 1809 he was nominated in succession Acting-Second-Master and Acting-Lieutenant of the schooner, of 12 guns, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Pring; in which vessel he remained for about four years, and saw much active service in the Channel and North Sea, and on the coast of North America. Besides contributing to the capture of several privateers, he aided in cutting out a variety of vessels from the enemy’s harbours in the rivers Ems and Weser, including nine which were laden with ship-timber for the Scheldt fleet. He left the in Nov. 1811, but continued employed on the North American station, as Acting-Master in the  64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer,  38, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, and 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, until presented, in Aug. 1815, with a Lieutenant’s commission dated 11 March preceding. He served at Sheerness, from 18 Dec. 1816 until 3 Feb. 1817, in the 46, Capt. Wm. Augustus Baumgardt; and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. TuUy is at present superintending the City of Dublin Steam-Packet Company’s steamers and boats on the inland lakes on the river Shannon. He married first in 1817, and secondly in 1836; and has issue 11 children. – Hallett and Robinson.

 TULLY. 

entered the Navy, in Sept. 1803, as Ordinary, on board the, Lieut.-Commanders Duffy and Geo. Stephen Ley, with whom he served for three years at Plymouth, at Dublin, and in the Irish Channel – nearly the whole time in the capacity of Midshipman. He then joined the 16, Capt. Philip Cosby Handfield; and on 30 Jan. 1808 he was present in that vessel, as Master’s Mate, when, in an endeavour to re-capture four Sicilian gun-boats, she took the ground, near Beggio, and was obliged to surrender, after losing, from an exposure of 15 hours to a galling fire from the enemy’s batteries and troops, two-thirds of her crew, together with her Commander and Capt. Thos. Secoombe of the 50, who was at the time on board. From Feb. 1808 until May, 1812, Mr. Tully served in the Mediterranean and Channel in the 98,  110, and  110, under the flags of Admirals Lord Collingwood, Thos. Fras. Fremantle, Sir Chas. Cotton, and Lord Keith. He was then received as a Supernumerary on board the, flag-ship at Spithead. He sailed shortly afterwards for the West Indies in the 20, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, and was there employed, from 19 Nov. 1812 until 15 May, 1813, in the 36, Capt. Geo. Reynolds, and 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey; and from the date last mentioned until he invalided, 1 Aug. 1814, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 10 Nov. 1813) in the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Stanley. He has since occasionally acted as an Agent for Transports afloat.

 TUPMAN. 

was born 16 Aug. 1785, and died 22 April, 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 8 Aug. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. John Rodney and Geo. Burlton, stationed in the Channel. In April, 1796, he joined, as a Supernumerary, the, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, lying at Portsmouth; and from Jan. 1797 until April, 1802, he was employed, at the Cape of Good Hope, on the coast of Ireland, and in the Mediterranean and Channel, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the 36, Capt. Geo. Burlton, sloop, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson,  64 and  38, Capts. G. Burlton and Jas. Stevenson, and 40, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood. He then became Master’s Mate of the 32, Capt. Henry Heathcote; of which frigate, stationed on the Irish coast and in the West Indies, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for some time as such, 19 March, 1805. On the morning of 14 Aug. 1804 he took part in her boats, four in number, carrying in the whole about 90 men, in a most desperate attempt made to cut out, from the neighbourhood of Anse-à- Mire, in the Saintes, the late British 14-gun ship-sloop (newly-named the Général Ernouf), defended by several powerful batteries, having a privateer schooner moored across her hawse, so as to enfilade the assailants completely in their approach, and in every way prepared for a stern resistance. After having nobly struggled, and sustained for nearly an hour a murderous fire of great guns and musketry, which, killed and wounded 65 of their number (including the commanding officer, Lieut. Chas. Hayman, and the Master), the British, deprived of all hope of success, retired. Mr. Tupman returned home with Capt. Heathcote from the West Indies in the 36; and was afterwards appointed – 24 July, 1805, to the  64, Capts. Chas. Rowley, Temple Hardy, and John Draper, in the North Sea – 17 Nov. 1806, to the 36, Capts. John Broughton and Fred. Warren, in which ship he again proceeded to the West Indies – in 1809-10, to the 36, Capt. Lucius Curtis,  50, Capt. Johnson,  38 and  36, Capt. Geo. Henderson, all on the Cape of Good Hope station, whence he returned to England in the in May, 1811 – 12 Dec. in the latter year, for five months, to the  74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Rich. King off Brest and L’Orient – 22 July, 1813, to 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, on the coast of North America, where he remained until Oct. 1814 – 1 March and 9 April, 1815, to the 38, Capt. John Quilliam, and  74, flag-ship