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778 confirmed Lieutenant in her. He went on half-pay in Oct. 1801; and was subsequently appointed – 7 Jan. 1804, to the Sea Fencibles in Galway – 18 May, 1805, to the, Capt. Wm. Cashman, at Watertord, where he remained until May, 1810 – and, 5 March, 1812, to the Impress service at Dublin, in which he was employed for upwards of two years. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 25 July, 1831, and on the Senior 23 June, 1846. – Hallett and Robinson.

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entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1804, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Dorsett Birchall, bearing the flag of Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope in the Thames; where, in Sept. 1806, on his return from a visit made to the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the, Master-Commander Wm. Lloyd, he joined the 74, Capt. Geo. Eyre. After a servitude of two years and eight months on the Baltic, Lisbon, South American, and Channel stations, in the 32, Capts. Robt. Howe Bromley, Thos. Brown, and Edw. Henry, he was received, in Sept. 1809, on board the 32, Capts. Pat. Tonyn, Robt. Preston, and Hugh Pigot, attached to the force in the West Indies, whence, in 1812, he came home as Master’s Mate of the frigate, Capt. Jas. Carthew. Joining then the 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he ultimately, after cruizing in the Channel, proceeded to North America, and in Aug. 1814 accompanied the brilliant expedition up the Potomac, where he witnessed the capture of Fort Washington and the surrender of Alexandria. For his services during the operations connected therewith he obtained the official eulogiums of his Captain, and was in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Oct. in the same year. He was afterwards, we believe, present in the attack upon New Orleans. He has been on half-pay since 1815. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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entered the Navy, 22 July, 1806, as a Supernumerary, on board the 100, Capt. Thos. Gill, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth; and on 21 Oct. following joined, off Cadiz, the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; which ship, when near the island of Tenedos, accidentally caught fire and blew up 14 Feb. 1807. Being in consequence received as Midshipman on board the 74, Capt. John Talbot, he was present at the ensuing passage of the Dardanells, and at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies. During these operations he was slightly wounded. He was next, from Sept. 1808 to June, 1813, again employed, under the orders of Capt. Blackwood, in the 74, on the Home station, and also in the Mediterranean; where, on 20 July, 1810, he participated in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British with a slender force beat back a powerful division of the French fleet. In Nov. 1813 he became Master’s Mate of the 36,.Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane; with whom he served, on the coast of Ireland and in the West Indies, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Feb. 1815. From 24 Nov. 1823 until the early part of 1829 Mr. Moore commanded the Falmouth packet. This was his last appointment.

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passed his examination 16 April, 1830; served in the Coast Guard from 23 March, 1841, until the attainment of his present rank 16 Jan. 1845; and since 1 Nov. following has been agIn employed in that department.

 MOORE. 

entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Barrington Dacres, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Collingwood; and from July, 1804, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Nov. 1809, was employed on the Jamaica station, chiefly as Midshipman, in the  and  74’s, and  64, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, 44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, and 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley; in the boats of which vessel, under Lieut. Chas. Fraser, he assisted, and obtained high praise for his conduct, at the boarding and capture, 9 March, 1809, with a loss to the British of 7 wounded, of the notorious French national felucca Joseph, of 3 guns and 53 men, and defended by a heavy fire of musketry and grape, as well from the vessel herself as from a whole range of batteries on the island of St. Domingo. He then joined the sloop, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, also in the West Indies, whence, in 1810, he returned to England on board the  98, Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard. He next, from March to Dec. 1811, served off the coast of France in the 80, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood; and while attached, between Jan. 1812 and Oct. 1815, to the 36, Capts. Lucius Curtis, Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Andw. King, he made a voyage to St. Helena, assisted at the reduction of Genoa in 1814, and visited the shores of North America. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

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was born 16 June, 1791, at Bath.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1804, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas; in which frigate he took part in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and was employed on various particular services. After an attachment of nearly 12 months to the 38, Capts. Geo. Cox and Henry Hill, he became Midshipman, in July, 1810, of the 64, and then of the  74, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Manley Dixon and Jas. Nicoll Morris on the Baltic station, where for more than two years he endured much fatigue in the escort of convoys, and in the performance of other harassing duties. On his removal to the brig, Capts. Andw. Pellet Green and John Marshall, he assisted at the capture, in Nov. 1813, of two strong batteries at Cuxhaven, and, in Jan. 1814, of the redoubtable fortress of Glückstadt. In consideration of his services on the latter occasion, he was invested with the command, in the following April, of a division of gun-boats, and was directed to co-operate in the reduction of Hamburgh and Harburgh; off which places, as officially testified, he continued very creditably employed, until compelled to invalid from the effects of a severe wound in the left hand, of which he has since lost the use. Prior to that unfortunate event he had been sent on shore for the purpose of seizing, and selling by public auction for the use of the British, all confiscated goods belonging to the Danish Government. Between July, 1814, and Aug. 1815, he served, on the Home and Irish stations, in the 24, Capt. Chas. Sothehy, 12, Capt. Geo. Truscott, and, the last seven months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the, flag-ship of Sir Herbert Sawyer. He then took up a commission dated 13 Feb. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Moore, in compensation for his wound, was granted, 22 Sept. 1818, a pension of 91l. 5s. He married, in Jan. 1815; and has issue nine children. – Messrs. Ommanney.

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died at the close of 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Feb 1810, as Fst.-Cl. Vol. on board the 74, Capt. (afterwards Admiral) Sir John Poo Beresford, in