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Rh 1811-12-13, of the 74, and  36, flag-ships of Sir Fras. Laforey, and 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, in the West Indies. He was promoted, 10 Aug. 1813, to the command of the sloop, in which vessel he returned home with convoy and was paid off in the following Oct.; and he was lastly, from 3 June, 1824, until Jan. 1827, employed on the Jamaica station in command of the  18. His Post-commission bears date 2 Aug. 1826.

Capt. Martin married, 5 Aug. 1828, Ann, daughter of John Miles, Esq., of London; and by that lady has had issue five sons and two daughters. – Case and Loudonsack.

 MARTIN, G.C.B., K.S.S.

is third son of the late Sir Henry Martin, Bart., Comptroller of the Navy, and M.P. for Southampton, by Eliza Anne, daughter of Harding Parker, Esq., of Hilbrook, co. Cork, and relict of Hayward Gillman, Esq., of Gillmanville, in the same co. His half-uncle, Sam. Martin, Esq., M.P., several years Joint Secretary to the Treasury, and Treasurer to the Princess Dowager of Wales, died in Nov. 1789; and his own uncle, Josiah Martin, Esq., a Colonel in the Army, who died in 1786, was Governor of North Carolina in 1770. One of her cousins, Sam. Martin, Esq., Colonel in the 1st Regt. of Guards, was killed at St. Sebastian; and another, Wm. Byam Martin, Esq., was for some time Governor of Amboyna. His father’s grandmother, Lydia, daughter of Colonel George Thomas, of Antigua (who commanded the Barbadoes Regiment, and greatly distinguished himself at the capture of St. Christopher’s in 1690), married, a second time, Edw. Byam, Esq., Governor of the Leeward Islands.

This officer, whose name had been borne from 23 June, until 31 Dec. 1782, on the books of the 80, Capt. John Jervis, entered the Royal Naval Academy in Aug. 1785, and embarked, in March, 1786, as Captain’s Servant, on board the  28, commanded by H.R.H. Prince William Henry, with whom he continued to serve in that vessel, and, as Midshipman, in the  frigate, on the North American and West India stations, until July, 1789. He was then in succession employed, chiefly on Channel service, in the 74, Capt. Hugh Cloberry Christian,  32, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, and 98 and  100, flag-ships of Admiral Barrington; and on 22 Oct. 1790, he was made Lieutenant into the  74, Capts. Lord Hugh Seymour and Erasmus Gower. After serving for two years in the capacity last-mentioned on board the and  frigates, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Geo. Wilson and Sam. Hood, he was promoted, in May, 1793, to the command of the 12, fitting for the Mediterranean, where, on 5 of the ensuing Nov., having witnessed Lord Hood’s occupation of Toulon, he was made Post into the  frigate. His ensuing appointment was to the, in which vessel, we believe, he co-operated in the reduction of Bastia. Obtaining command, next, of the, of 40 guns and 237 men, Capt. Martin, besides making prize, in that ship, of Le Jean Bart corvette of 18 guns, and the privateers Le Buonaparte of 16 guns and 137 men, and Le Vengeur of 18 guns and 110 men, succeeded, 8 June, 1796, in effecting the capture, after a close and gallant action of 20 minutes, of the Tamise, of 40 guns and 306 men, of whom 32 were killed and 19 wounded, with a loss to the British of only 2 slain and 3 wounded. In Dec. 1796, he removed to the 38, and, being ordered to the West Indies, was present, in April, 1797, in the unsuccessful attack on Puerto Rico. During the five following months he had the fortune to capture not less than nine privateers, carrying in the whole 58 guns and 519 men. In Oct. 1798, at which period he had had command for 10 months of the 64, Capt. Martin removed to the  of 46 guns and 281 men. Continuing in that frigate on the Channel station until Dec. 1801, he contrived, 20 Oct. 1798, when off Brest, to capture the French ship Immortalité of 42 guns and 580 men, including troops, at the close of an obstinate conflict of great length, productive of a loss to the enemy of 54 killed and 61 wounded, and to the of 10 killed and 26 wounded. To add to the merit of Capt. Martin in possessing himself of the Tamise and Immortalité, we may record the fact that in both instances his own ship was manned with a young, raw, and inexperienced crew; but in neither case did his valour meet with the least reward. On the night of 23 June, 1800, we find him, in personal command of the boats of a squadron, entering the Quimper river, and effecting, on its banks, the destruction of three batteries, mounting seven 24-pounders, together with their magazines. Prior to leaving the he further took La Vénus of 32 guns and 200 men, Le Dragon corvette of 14 guns, La Gironde privateer of 16 guns and 141 men, L’Alerte privateer of 14 guns and 84 men, El Vivo national vessel of 14 guns and 100 men, and three others mounting 18 guns. His succeeding appointments were – in March, 1803, to the 84, in which ship he served in the Channel until 22 Dec. 1805 – in 1807 to the  98, and  74, on the Home and Baltic stations – 2 Sept. 1808, to the  100, as Captain of the Fleet under Sir Jas. Saumarez, Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic – a short time afterwards, again to the – and, about Aug. 1810, to the  yacht. On 26 Aug. 1808, Capt. Martin, at the time in the, fell in with, and, after a long chase, brought to close action, in a most brave and gallant manner, the Russian 74-gun ship Sewolod, whose fire he silenced in about 20 minutes, being only prevented from capturing her by the approach of the whole Russian fleet, which bore up to her support. She soon, however, grounded on a shoal at the entrance of the port of Rogerswick, and in that position was attacked by Rear-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, in the, who, although that ship herself took the ground, compelled her to surrender, after an obstinate defence, in which and in her engagement with the (6 of whose people were slain and 26 wounded) she had 303 men killed, wounded, and missing. She was then set on fire and destroyed; the having been previously hove off by the exertions of Capt. Martin, who displayed so much professional ability on the occasion as to call forth the thanks of Sir Sam. Hood. In alluding to the conduct of the in her antecedent action, Sir Samuel, in his official letter, declares himself unable by any words of his to enhance the “merit of her brave, worthy, and excellent commander;” upon whom the King of Sweden, as an acknowledgment, conferred the insignia of a Knight of the Order of the Sword. On 6 July, 1809, Capt. Martin, in company with the frigate, entered the Gulf of Narva, and captured nine merchant-vessels. Being advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral 1 Aug. 1811, he hoisted his flag, in April, 1812, on board the 74, and returned to the Baltic, where he took an energetic part in the defence of Riga, and co-operated with the Russian army under Prince Bagration against the French troops under Davoust. In the course of the same year he was appointed second in command at Plymouth; at which port he continued (with the exception of a short time, passed in the 36, and  50, on the coast of Spain and off the Scheldt) until 1815; his flag flying during the period in the  74,  98, and  74. In 1814 he 