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Rh 1842, of Port Officer at Sydney, New South Wales. He married Anne, daughter of the late Major Edw. Orpen, of Killowen, co. Kerry, by whom he has issue four sons (the eldest a Barrister-at-law) and seven daughters. – J. Hinxman.

 MORIARTY. 

is the eldest brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 27 May, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 36, Capt. Thos. Burton, stationed in the North Sea. In Aug. 1806 he removed to the 64, Capt. Geo. Eyre, with whom, in the course of the same year, he proceeded, in the 74, to the Mediterranean, where, besides serving at the blockade of Cadiz, Toulon, and Corfu, he assisted at the defence of Rosas in Nov. 1808, united in the reduction of Zante, Cephalonia, &c., in Oct. 1809, and was employed on shore in co-operation with the army at the taking of Sta. Maura in March, 1810. Removing in May, 1811, to the, of 46 guns, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he served in the boats of that ship, four in number, at the capture and destruction, 27 July following, of 28 sail of merchantmen, defended, in a creek of the island of Ragosniza, by three gun-vessels and a body of 300 troops; as a reward for his conduct on which occasion he was nominated, 1 Sept. in the same year, Acting-Lieutenant of the. On 29 of the ensuing Nov. we find him sharing in a hard-fought action of an hour and a half, which, in rendering the latter ship captor of the Pomone, of 44 guns and 332 men, 50 of whom were killed and wounded, produced a loss to her of 8 killed and 27 wounded, including Capt. Gordon (whose warmest praise he had the fortune to elicit), and the First and Second Lieutenants. After saving a boat’s crew from being drowned, Mr. Moriarty, officiating at the time as Third Lieutenant, was placed in charge of the prize, and, although she was in a nearly sinking state, he succeeded in carrying her safe into Lissa (where he received the thanks of Capt. Murray Maxwell, the Senior officer on the station), and thence to Malta. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 7 Jan. 1812; and was subsequently appointed – in the course of the same year, to the command of No. 5 gun-boat, in which he was for upwards of two years employed at the defence of Cadiz, and between that port and Gibraltar – 27 Sept. 1814, for passage home, to the 74, Capt. John Lampen Manley – 6 Dec. following, to the  sloop, Capt. Wm. Henry Bruce, with whom he served on the Brazilian, West India, and Home stations until Sept. 1815 – and, 8 June, 1824, to the Coast Blockade, in which he remained as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, until compelled by illness to resign in 1828. He has not been since employed.

He married, first, Dorcas Helena, daughter of Major Edw. Orpen, of Killowen, co. Kerry; and, secondly, Rachael Ann, daughter of John Mayberry, Esq., of Green Lane, in the same co. By his first marriage he has issue a son and daughter; and, by his last, a daughter. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MORIARTY. 

is son of the late Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty, Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thos. Graves in the 74, prior to the commencement of the French revolutionary war; and brother-in-law of  He is brother of Lieuts. and Moriarty, R.N.; and also of the late Messrs. Peter, Sylverius, and Martin Moriarty, all in the R.N. – the first of whom died a Lieutenant of fever in the West Indies, the second was lost with the  in 1800, and the third died of cold caught while extinguishing a fire on board the  74, at Plymouth.

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 26 Sept. 1803; and embarked, 17 Aug. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the 36, Capts. Shipley, Geo. Pigot, Hon. Josceline Percy, and Edw. Sneyd Clay; under the first of whom, who was killed, he was wounded in the boats in a desperate but unsuccessful attack made on the night of 23 April, 1808, on a French corvette, La Gavotte, of 22 guns and 150 men, lying at anchor in a bight above Belem Castle, in the river Tagus. He had previously enacted a part at the siege of Copenhagen; and he subsequently, when under Capt. Percy, escorted General Junot to Rochelle after the convention of Cintra. Quitting the in Dec. 1810, he next, for about three years, served, on the Home, North American, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the  74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, frigate, Capt. John Hatley,  98, Capt. Thos. Burton, 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the 16, Capt. John Miller Adye. Having passed his examination in the summer of 1811 he was confirmed a Lieutenant 13 Oct. 1813. His succeeding appointments were – 29 March, 1814, to the 32, Capt. Thos. Garth, also in the Mediterranean – 19 Sept. following, to the sloop, Capt. Augustus Baldwin, in which vessel, stationed in the Channel, he served until Oct. 1815 – and, 15 April, 1818, to the  frigate, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, fitting for the East Indies. In 1820 he accompanied an expedition sent to the Persian Gulf for the purpose of obtaining redress for injuries which the British interests had suffered from the officers of the Imaum of Senna; and in Dec. of that year he was wounded at the head of a party of seamen while storming a fort during a series of operations against the city of Mokha. Although the attack was not crowned with the success it deserved, yet the daring intrepidity displayed by Lieut. Moriarty, exposed as he was to a heavy and galling fire of musketry, met its due reward in his being advanced, 1 Nov. 1822, to the rank he now holds.

Commander Moriarty has been for many years Port Officer at Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. He married Aphra, daughter of the late and sister of the present Dr. Cramp, of Tralee, co. Kerry. – J. Hinxman.

 MORIENCOURT. 

entered the Navy, in Feb. 1787, as Midshipman, on board the 44, Capts. Fras. Parry and John Nicholson Inglefield, on the African station; and between July, 1790, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1793, was employed in the Channel, off the coast of Africa, at Portsmouth, and in the Mediterranean, in the 74, Capt. John Gell,  frigate, Capt. J. N. Inglefield,  98, flag-ship of Vice- Admiral Roddam, and  50, and  98, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. He was then, being at the siege of Toulon, placed in command of a floating battery, which suffered much from the enemy’s batteries. He went on half-pay in Dec. 1793; but was afterwards, between July, 1794, and July, 1801, afforded an opportunity of serving on the Home station in the frigate, Capt. John Peyton,  98, Capts. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope and Sir Erasmus Gower, 38, Capt. Thos. Wolley, again, Capts. Sir E. Gower and Jas.Vashon, and 32, Capt. Fitzgerald. His last appointment, we believe, was, for a short time in the summer of 1803, to, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney. He retired with the rank of Commander, on the Senior List, 1 Sept. 1827. – Fred. Dufaur.

 MORIER. 

entered the Navy, in Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74