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784  Robuste and Lion. Removing, in Sept. 1811, to the 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was for about 18 months employed in that ship in the Adriatic, where he aided in blockading the French and Venetian squadrons at Venice, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea, and several of each class fitting in the arsenal. In Feb. 1814, having returned with convoy to England, and been for a short time engaged at the blockade of Cherbourg, he became Master’s Mate of the 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel, whence, in the course of the same year, he sailed for North America with Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in the  74. After witnessing, as Supernumerary-Midshipman on promotion of the 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, the attack on New Orleans, he was nominated, 19 May, 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Baker. On his arrival home in the ensuing summer he found that he had been officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 6 of the preceding Feb. His succeeding appointments were – 19 May, 1818, to the 100, flagship of Sir Geo. Campbell at Portsmouth, where he served until paid off in 1821 – 30 April, 1827, to the 120, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth – 22 Sept. 1828, and 28 April, 1830, to the  84, and  again, in which ships he continued employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea, under the flag of Sir P. Malcolm, until the close of 1831 – and, 8 March, 1833, a third time, to the, as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 April, 1834; and, from 29 March, 1837, until the spring of 1840, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MORGAN. 

(a) entered the Navy, 18 May, 1803, as L.M., on board the sloop, Capt. Robt. Pettet, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, from May, 1805, until Aug. 1808, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the 18, Capts. John Louis, Edw. Aug. Down, and Thos. Ussher. He then proceeded to the Brazils in the, Capt. Thos. Smyth, and next to the Cape of Good Hope in the 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson. In July, 1810, he joined the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Williams off Lisbon; and after a servitude of two years and nine months on that station, he removed, in April, 1811, to the 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey in the West Indies; where, between Oct. 1812 and May, 1813, he acted as Master of the gun-brig, Lieutenant-Commander Chas. Dayman Jermy. In Oct. of the latter year he arrived in England in the sloop, Capt. Thos. Martin; in which vessel, since the date last mentioned, he had been officiating as Acting-Lieutenant. On 22 June, 1814, after he had been for six months borne as Supernumerary-Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the books of the 74 and  80, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane in North America, he was there again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the frigate, Capt. Edm. Palmer; as he was subsequently, in April and May, 1815, in the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Stone Cotgrave. On his return to England in the ensuing July he took up a commission bearing date 9 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MORGAN. 

(b) is third son of the late Thos. Morgan, Esq., Recorder of Clonekilty, co. Cork.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Feb. 1800, as Ordinary (after seven years’ employment in the merchant-service, latterly in the capacity of Mate), on board the 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, under whom he took part in the operations in Egypt in 1801. Returning to England in the early part of 1802, he next, in May, 1804, joined the 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; on leaving which ship in the following July he was received on board the frigate, Capt. Wm. Cashman, off Waterford. In Aug. 1806 he became Master’s Mate of the 38, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and Jas. Alex. Gordon; under the former of whom, in Feb. 1807, he accompanied Sir John Duckworth past the Dardanells, and on that occasion was so stunned by the explosion of a gun that the blood gushed out of both ears, and he ultimately lost all sense of hearing, although, from the accident not being properly reported, he was never able to procure compensation. While attached, from May, 1809, to April, 1811, to the 74, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, he witnessed the capture of Flushing and Guadeloupe, and was also present at the defence of Cadiz, where he commanded a gun-boat, and had every oar shot away while retreating from under a battery, without, fortunately, any of his crew being touched. After further serving with Capt. Watson in the 74, with Admirals Sir Robt. Calder and Lord Keith in the and  (of which latter ship he officiated as Second-Master from 26 March, 1813, to 30 Aug. 1814), with Capts. J. Richards and Geo. McKinley in the 74, and with Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane in the  36 on the Mediterranean and Home stations, he took up, in Nov. 1815, a commission bearing date 15 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Morgan married, first, in 1804 or 1805; and, again, in 1830. By his first wife he has living two sons (both of whom, educated at the Naval School at Greenwich, are now in the merchant-service) and one daughter.

 MORIARTY. 

is brother of Commander Wm. Moriarty, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, successive flag-ship of Admirals Wm. Essington and Sir Chas. Cotton, with the latter of whom, after assisting at the reduction of Copenhagen, he removed, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1808, to the 110, and proceeded off Lisbon. In Nov. 1812, up to which period he had been further employed under the orders of Sir C. Cotton, and also of Lord Keith, in the 110, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, he joined the  38, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, cruizing among the Western Islands. He removed, in Aug. 1814, to the 38, Capt. Fred. Langford, attached to the Channel fleet, where he served until Feb. 1814. In the following summer he proceeded to the West Indies as Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capt. John Cookesley, in which vessel, being confirmed to her 26 Sept. following, he afterwards visited Newfoundland. He invalided home in Sept. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Moriarty, who had previously had command for several years of the Bristol Company’s steam-ship, has filled the appointment, since