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746 shore throughout all the operations which terminated in the fall of Java; where he enacted a distinguished part on shore at the head of a body of seamen, and aided in the bombardment and storming of Fort Cornelis 26 Aug. 1811. On the night of 10 of the ensuing month, we further discover him, with a division of boats under his orders, taking captive, in the neighbourhood of Samarang, a large sloop-rigged gun-boat, mounting 4 heavy guns and 2 brass swivels, a Malay-rigged gun-boat, carrying 1 12-pounder carronade, and a despatch-boat. In the early part of 1812, on 7 Feb. in which year he was confirmed to Post-rank, Capt. Maunsell, in consequence of an attack of Batavian fever, returned to England; and on 24 of the ensuing Aug. was appointed to the 74, bearing the flag in the North Sea of Rear-Admiral Matthew Henry Scott, with whom he continued until 26 May, 1814. After 16 years’ incessant application for employment, he was next, 22 Feb. 1831, placed in command of the 50, and sent to the Mediterranean; where, during a servitude of three years, he witnessed the establishment of King Otho on the throne of Greece, and was selected to watch the movements of the hostile fleets of Turkey and Egypt. His last appointment afloat was, 13 May, 1840, to the 92. On his arrival in that ship off Alexandria, 22 Nov. in the same year, he was instructed by Commodore Napier to open a direct communication between him and Mehemet Ali. Landing, accordingly, close to his Highness’ palace, he managed to pass the guards unmolested, and, entering the presence-chamber, without introduction, had the good fortune to obtain a very flattering audience, and fully to carry out the object of his mission. The next day he landed, with the Commodore, and, we believe, remained with him until the conclusion of the celebrated convention between him and the Egyptian potentate. The, it appears, was the means of afterwards, in Nov. 1842, rescuing the 84, when on shore near Barcelona; and in the course of the ensuing month was present at the reduction of that city by the force under Espartero. In the spring of 1843, having returned to England, she was despatched to the Cape of Good Hope with the 7th Dragoon Guards, a company of the 45th Regt., another of Artillery, and 150 men, on board. In Oct. 1843 she was paid off.

On 20 July, 1838, Capt. Maunsell was nominated a C.B.; and in April, 1844, as a tribute to “his high personal character, and his eminent professional service,” he was spontaneously appointed by Sir Robt. Peel a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. – Messrs. Chard.

 MAURICE. 

was born 10 Feb. 1775, at Devonport. His twin brother, Ferdinand Moore Maurice, was lost in command of the sloop in the autumn of 1811.

This officer (whose name had been borne in 1783-4 on the books of the, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Glassford) embarked, in Aug. 1789, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capts. Alex. Mackey and Jas. Leakey, and was employed in that vessel on the Channel station until Oct. 1791. Becoming Midshipman, in Dec. 1792, of the 74, Capts. Thos. Hicks and Wm. Albany Otway, he escorted a fleet of outward-bound Indiamen, at the commencement of hostilities with France, to the Cape of Good Hope, and on his return he successively, in Jan. and May, 1794, joined the 74, Capt. Rich. Boger, and 36, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Anthony Hunt. In Aug. 1795, after having participated in Lord Bridport’s action, he was nominated by Sir John Borlase Warren Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Albemarle Bertie; but the appointment not being confirmed, he went back, about Jan. 1796, to, and continued in that ship, under Capts. Hunt and Rich. Bagot (witnessing intermemediately the capture, among other vessels, of the French frigates Unité and Virginie, and the destruction of La Volage corvette, of 26 guns), until transferred, in Feb. 1797, to the 100, flag-ship in the Channel of Lord Bridport, who, on 17 of the ensuing month, promoted him into the  98, Capt. Jas. Brine – the Admiralty confirming the appointment by a commission dated 3 April, 1797. In Jan. 1799 Mr. Maurice removed to the 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, in which ship, bearing the flag for some time of Sir John Borlase Warren, he served in the Channel and Mediterranean until May, 1802. Obtaining an appointment, in the following Sept., to the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sam. Hood, he added in that ship at the capture of Ste. Lucie, Tobago, Demerara, and Essequibo, and on 26 Nov. 1803 he landed at the head of 40 seamen, with the greater part of the marines under Capt. Crozier, at Petite Ance d’Arlette, Martinique, and assisted in destroying a battery of 6 24-pounders. In the performance, however, of this service he received a wound, occasioned by the explosion of the magazine, and was in consequence presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword valued at 50l. On 3 Feb. 1804, after nearly a month had been expended in planting 5 guns (3 24-pounders and 2 long 18’s), and placing provisions, stores, &c., upon an all but inaccessible eminence, situated in the sea near the south-west end of Martinique, and called the Diamond Rock, the rating was assigned it of a sloop-of-war, and the command given to Lieut. Maurice, as a reward for the arduous and prominent part he had borne in the equipment. Being confirmed in his new appointment, 7 May in the same year, he continued to hold it until 2 June, 1805, when, owing to a want of ammunition and water, he was under the necessity of surrendering to a French squadron of 2 sail-of-the-line, 1 frigate, 1 brig, a schooner, and 11 gun-boats, together with 1500 troops, after sustaining a three days’ attack with a degree of gallantry that had the effect of subsequently procuring him not only the honourable acquittal but the high admiration of a Court-Martial, and the warm applause of Lord Nelson. The enemy, during the operations, appear to have had about 30 killed and 40 wounded on shore, independently of their ships and boats, and to have lost 3 gun-boats and 2 row-boats. The British, of whom there were in the whole not more than 107, had but 2 killed and 1 wounded. Capt. Maurice arrived in, England with despatches from Rear-Admiral Hon. Alex. Cochrane 3 Aug. 1805, and in less than a fortnight was appointed to the command of the, a new 18 gun-brig. In that vessel he appears, until June, 1807, to have been employed in convoying the trade from different ports in St. George’s Channel and the Downs. He next escorted a fleet of merchantmen from Cork to the West Indies; and in Dec. 1807 contrived, while cruizing on the Jamaica station, to capture the Don Quixote, Spanish privateer, of 8 guns and 99 men. In the autumn of 1808 Capt. Maurice was nominated by Sir Alex. Cochrane Governor of Marie-Galante, a post appointment, which the Admiralty sanctioned with its approbation 18 Jan. 1809. After having administered the affairs of the colony for 12 months under circumstances of a very trying character, but in a manner that gained him a most flattering address from the legislative body and the principal inhabitants, he found himself, in Oct. 1809, compelled, from the effects of intermittent fever, to invalid. His next appointment, we find, was to the Governorship, 30 July, 1810, of the island of Anholdt, where, in March, 1811, he rendered his name for ever famous by the brilliant manner in which he defeated an attempt made to reduce it by a Danish flotilla and army, consisting in all of nearly 4000 men, who, after a close combat of four hours and a half, were driven back to their ports, with the loss of 3 pieces of cannon, 14 shells, 484 muskets, 470 swords, 16000 musket-ball cartridges,