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776 Brace and John Drake) he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were-3 Nov. 1837, as Additional, to the 52, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross in South America – and 16 June, 1838, as Senior, to the  surveying-vessel, commanded by his old Captain, Belcher. On his subsequent arrival in China from the Pacific, we find him assisting, in the early part of 1841, at the capture of Chuenpee, Tycocktow, and the Bogue; uniting, also, in an attack made by a squadron under Capt. Herbert on the enemy’s camp, fort, and ship Cambridge bearing the Chinese Admiral’s flag, at their position below Whampoa Reach, where 98 guns were in the whole destroyed; and participating in the operations against Canton. As a reward for his exertions he was promoted to the rank of Commander by commission dated 8 June, 1841. He left the in the following Nov., and has since been on half-pay.

 MOODIE. 

entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Jas. Vashon, bearing the flag of Sir Edm. Nagle at Leith. He removed in March, 1809, to the sloop, Capt. John Ellis; and after serving for two years and a half in that vessel in the North Sea and Channel, at Quebec, and on the Spanish coast, he became Midshipman, in Sept. 1811, of the  74, Capt. Josias Rowley, on the Mediterranean station; where, in 1813-14, he witnessed the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, the reduction of Santa Maria and the enemy’s forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. Quitting the America in Oct. 1814, he next, until Dec. 1815, served off Ushant and Madeira, and again in the Mediterranean, in the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, and  104, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley. His commission bears date 9 Dec. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Moodie has been for some time Acting-President of the Government Bank at the Cape of Good Hope. – J. Hinxman.

 MOONEY. 

passed his examination 22 Oct. 1836; and has been serving since 1841 on the North America and West India station, as Mate and Lieutenant of the surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Barnett. His commission bears date 26 Aug, 1844.

 MOOR. 

was born 2 June, 1793. His brother James, a Lieutenant R.M., died in the island of Marie-galante in 1808.

This officer entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles, in which ship, after witnessing Sir Sam. Hood’s destruction of four heavy French frigates off Rochefort, he passed the Dardanells with Sir John Duckworth, and was present at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies. Joining next, in Oct. 1808, the 32, Capts. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman and Alex. Robt. Kerr, he assisted, as Midshipman, in embarking the army after the battle of Corunna in Jan. 1809, and in the ensuing April beheld Lord Coohrane’s brilliant attack on the French shipping in Aix Roads. In Sept, of the same year he rejoined Capt. Hardyman on board the 38; but, previously to doing so, he appears to have attracted the notice of Lord Gambier by his gallant defence of the ’s launch against nine of the enemy’s gun-boats after his commanding-officer, Lieut. Hamilton, had been killed. On leaving the, in May, 1810, he became in succession attached to the 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby, and to the 38,  38, and  64, bearing each the flag of Bear- Admiral Boyles, to whom he acted as aide-de-camp. In the, commanded by Capt. Geo. McKinley, it was Mr. Moor’s misfortune to be wrecked, 10 Aug. 1810, on a reef of rocks near Point Coura, in the island of Malta. During an after servitude of 13 months in the sloop, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, he had charge for some time of a watch, carried two prizes safely into port, and aided, in company with the 38, and  36, at the destruction, 1 May, 1811, after a gallant action of an hour and a half, in Sagone Bay (where the  incurred a loss of 3 men killed and 9 wounded), of the two armed store-ships 'Giraffe' and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello-tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. In Dec. 1811, three months after he had returned to the, he was received on board the 32, Capt. Chas. Napier, by whom he was soon awarded the rating of Master’s Mate. While in that ship, besides being thrice deputed to perform the duties of prize-master, he had command of a tender, and came into frequent contact with the enemy on the Calabrian coast. He once, when on shore on impress service at Malta, received a very severe wound in the under-jaw, and had five of his teeth knocked out, the remainder being so broken and displaced as to be afterwards rendered unserviceable. He was on two other occasions also slightly wounded, and (a fact well attested) had a piece of his hat in one instance shot away by a cannon-ball while in charge of a boat. During the two years which preceded his attainment of the rank of Lieutenant, 16 Feb. 1815, he served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Edw. Hawker, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats at Newfoundland. In Dec. 1814, having volunteered his services, he took charge of a recaptured vessel, deeply laden with crockery-ware, and, after a desperate passage of 11 days, succeeded in carrying her into Plymouth. During eight days of the time the sea was perpetually washing over, and, as there existed no possibility of opening the hatches or of going below, those on board were reduced to the necessity of subsisting entirely upon raw meat. The conduct exhibited by Mr. Moor on this, as on a previous occasion, afforded Capt. Hawker an opportunity of recommending him to the Admiralty as an officer most fully deserving promotion. Since the receipt of his commission he has been on half-pay.

 MOORE. 

(a) entered the Navy, in Jan. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 74, commanded by the late Sir Chas. Rowley; and, while in that ship (of which he was created a Lieutenant 26 Jan. 1813), he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 27 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiery and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Flume, Trieste (where he served on shore, and by his courage and activity elicited the admiration of Rear-Admiral Fremantle ), and other places in the Adriatic. Being subsequently nominated Flag-Lieutenant to the above officer, on his assuming the chief command at the Nore, he served in that capacity both in the and  74’s. In the spring of 1817 he was lent to the yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, for the purpose of escorting the King of the French from England to Calais; off which place he so distinguished himself by his heroic intrepidity in a boat in saving the lives of part of the crew of a vessel which had been driven on shore during a strong north-west gale, that he was promoted to the rank of Commander 24 June in the same year. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained from 18 March, 1834, until 1837.

Commander Moore married, in 1819, at Grantham, co. Lincoln, Elizabeth Anne, second daughter of the late Rich. Palmer, Esq. – Messrs. Chard.

