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Rh him to invalid from the West Indies, he assumed command of the schooner, of 111 tons, 10 12-pounder carronades, and 50 men; and in that vessel he continued employed for upwards of two years on the Irish, Downs, Baltic, and Plymouth stations. He contrived, during the period, to beat off, 11 Feb. 1813, a detachment of seven luggers, carrying from 8 to 14 guns each, after more than an hour’s close action, fought in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. On the following day he drove a lugger on shore and destroyed her; and he subsequently, among a host of dashing affairs, cut out a ship of 400 tons, two galliots, and a sloop, laden with corn, from the harbour of Aalbourg, although hotly pursued by nine Danish armed vessels 13 April, 1813 – brought to and examined, 18 June following, a licensed Danish merchantman, under the fire of three national brigs and five gun-boats, close inshore off Christiansand – engaged, 3 July, the Norge, a cutter-rigged praam, mounting 2 long 32-pounders and 6 18-pounder carronades, with a complement of 80 men, supported by several other armed vessels, near Fladstrand – and on 11 Aug. came a second time into action with the Norge, through whose fire, and that of nine gun-boats in her company, the sustained severe damage. On 6 Oct. in the same year, 1813, a very gallant exploit was performed a few miles to the southward of Wingo Sound, where, by a five-oared boat under the command of Lieut. Rich. Banks of the gun-brig, and by the ’s four-oared gig under Lieut. Morgan, a Danish cutter, mounting one howitzer, with a complement of 25 men, was boarded and carried in spite of a fierce resistance, in which the enemy sustained a loss of 5 men killed and their commander badly wounded, and the British of 2 killed and 3 (including Lieut. Morgan severely) wounded. During her stay in the Baltic, a period of nine months, the captured and destroyed not less than 2544 tons of the enemy’s shipping, navigated by 136 seamen; and, in conjunction with the Hawke privateer, of Hastings, made prize of a Danish privateer, and re-took a ship from under the batteries on Lessee Island and the fire of 13 gun-boats and 10 privateers. So much activity and gallantry on the part of Lieut. Morgan could not do otherwise than elicit strong expressions of approbation from his successive Commanders-in-Chief; the late Admirals Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Graham Moore. Quitting the about June, 1814, he was next employed in command, from April to Sept. 1815, and from the latter date until Feb. 1818, of the  gun-brig and  schooner, on the Irish station. He obtained a second promotal commission 19 July, 1821; and afterwards officiated as an Inspecting-Commander of the Coast Guard at Whitby and Newhaven, from 1827 to 1830, and from 16 March, 1831, until promoted to Post-rank 15 Jan. 1836. On leaving the Whitby district in June, 1830, he was presented by his officers with a handsome piece of plate “as a grateful testimony of his kind and gentlemanly conduct towards them.” He has not been employed since his last promotion.

Capt. Morgan is a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and is the Senior Captain of 1836. He married, 24 July, 1833, Eliza, daughter of T. C. Faulconer, Esq., of Newhaven.

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was born in 1802.

This officer entered the Navy, 19 May, 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. John Davie, attached to the force in the North Sea; and between 1815 and 1822 was employed as Midshipman, on the Cape of Good Hope, Home, North American, and St. Helena stations, in the  74 and  84, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, 18 and  26, each under the orders of Capt. Hon. John Gordon, and  74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert. He then, having passed his examination in 1821, became Mate of the 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood; a capacity in which he further, from 1823 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 March, 1833, served in South America on board the 42, Capt. Thos. Brown, 84, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, and 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. His succeeding appointments were – 23 March, 1833, to the 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the early part of 1835 – and 22 Sept. in the latter year, 18 April, 1836, and (after about 12 months of half-pay) 8 April, 1839, to the 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the  24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, all in South America. He came home on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and was next, from 1 Feb. 1844, until posted 9 Nov. 1846, employed on Home service as Second-Captain of the 104,  110, and  120, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and John Neale Nott. He is not at present afloat.

He married, 11 June, 1838, Caroline, eldest daughter of

 MORGAN. 

was born 29 Jan. 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 11 July, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capts. Christopher Laroche and Thos. Manby, on the Guernsey station; joined, next, the 38, and, Capts. Geo. Scott and Hon. Courtenay Boyle, lying at Portsmouth; and from the close of the same year until May, 1811, was employed in the East and West Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18, Capts. Geo. Davies and Bertie Cornelius Cator, 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, and again, Capts. B. C. Cator, Wm. Fitzmaurice, Hon. W. Gordon, Geo. Davies, and Henry Montresor. The ensuing three years and ten months were passed by Mr. Morgan on the West India, Portsmouth, Mediterranean, and Irish stations, in the sloop, Capt. H. Montresor,  44 and  110, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Wm. Hargood and Sir Rich. King, and 20, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford. He was then promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 17 Feb. 1815; and was subsequently appointed to the command – 4 Aug. 1826, for two years, of the Revenue-cruizer – and 2 June and 28 Aug. 1832, of the  and  cutters, in which vessels he served until paid off in 1835. Prior to joining the, Mr. Morgan commanded for some time the cutter. He obtained a second promotal commission 10 Jan. 1837; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1842, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. – Frederick Dufaur.

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entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the store-ship, Master-Commander Dan. McCoy, and, after serving for a few months off Gibraltar and Cadiz in that vessel and the 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, joined the 80, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis, Geo. Martin, and Chas. Boyles. Under the first-mentioned of those officers he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, enacted a part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French frigate Le Président, and, after attending Sir John Duckworth’s expedition to Constantinople in Feb. 1807, assumed a share in the ensuing operations in Egypt. Under Rear-Admiral Martin, he joined, in Oct. 1809, in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, off Cette, of the French 