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786 Capt. John Giffard, lying at, and after cruizing for nine months on the Irish station in the 36, Capt. J. Giffard, was constituted Midshipman, in Jan. 1805, of the  32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where it was his fortune to participate in much boat service. Quitting the last-mentioned ship in March, 1807, he was next, until April, 1810, employed on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations in the sloop, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, 64, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse,  74, Capt. John Bligh, and  32, Capt. Hon. G. G. Waldegrave. He was then nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Thos. Boys; and on 4 of the following month (having intermediately taken part in the defence of Cadiz, and assisted in setting fire to a prison-ship driven on shore by the French prisoners) he was confirmed into the 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander. In Nov. of the same year he returned to the Thames, still commanded by Capt. Waldegrave, although afterwards by Capts. Chas. Napier and John Strutt Peyton. In that ship he contributed to the reduction of the island of Ponza in Feb. 1811, and, among other boat affairs performed on the coast of Calabria, displayed characteristic zeal at the destruction, 16 June following, of 10 large armed feluccas, on the beach, near Cetraro, in the gulf of Policastro. After a servitude of 20 months in the 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, during which period he had escorted, we believe, the Duke of Cambridge to Cuxhaven and his late Majesty to the Scheldt, and had witnessed the bombardment of Stonington in America, he was presented with a Second promotal commission dated 13 June, 1815. His last appointments were – 12 Oct. 1826 and 17 Sept. 1828, to the and  sloops, of 18 guns each; which vessels he successively commanded on the North Sea station until the close of 1829. He attained his present rank 18 Jan. 1830.

Capt. Morier married, in 1841, Fanny, daughter of D. Bevan, Esq., of Belmont, Herts. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MORLEY. 

entered the Navy, in May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. John Baker, under whom he assisted at the capture, 20 Nov. following, of L’Egayant privateer, of 14 guns and 31 men, and continued actively employed in the Channel and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal until Nov. 1810. During the next four years we find him serving as Midshipman, off Cadiz and in various parts of the Mediterranean, in the St. 64, and 74, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace. In the former ship he appears to have been in co-operation with the British army at the battle of Barrosa; and, in the, to have witnessed the fall of Genoa. He then, in Dec. 1814, joined the 98, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, on Lake Ontario, where, after an attachment of a few months to the 56, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, he acted, from March, 1816, until July, 1817, as Master of the 10, Capt. Fras. Brace. In Dec. 1818 he became Master’s Mate of the 24; and in that vessel, successively commanded by Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Robt. Baldey, he was for two years and a half employed in surveying the Azores, part of the African coast, and some of the Cape de Verde Islands. He was next, in Aug. 1821, appointed to the Coast Blockade as Admiralty-Midshipman of the 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; from which service, in Dec. 1822, he was removed, in a similar capacity, to the 74, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He attained his present rank 21 Jan. 1824; and was afterwards employed, from 15 April in the same year until superseded at his own request 8 Nov. 1825, again in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and, from 20 March, 1835, until the close of 1844, in the Coast Guard.

 MORLEY. 

was born in Jan. 1791, at St. John’s, Newfoundland.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Fras. Mason and Jas. John Chas. Agassiz, on the Newfoundland station; where, from Dec. 1808 until July, 1811, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in the 10, Lieut.-Commander David Buchan. He then joined the 32, Capt. Rich. Hawkins, with whom, during a continuance of nearly three years, he saw service at Halifax and also in the West Indies. After he had been for four months borne, as a Supernumerary, on the books of the 74, Capt. Chas. John Austen, he joined, about Oct. 1814, the, of 32 guns, Capt. Gordon Thos. ; and, next, the, prison-ship at Newfoundland, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Bishop. He took up, in June, 1815, a commission bearing date 6 Feb. in that year; and he was, lastly, from April, 1816, until paid Off in Nov. 1817, employed on the coast of North America and in the Leeward Islands in the 12, and  troop-ship, Capts. D. Buchan and Dan. Roberts.

He married, in 1829, Eleanor, daughter of Thos. Sutton, Esq., of Scarborough, co. York, and by that lady has issue 10 children.

 MORRELL. 

is son of the late Lieut. Morrell, R.N.; and brother of the late Commander John Arthur Morrell, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. Chas. Brisbane and Wm. Cumberland, with whom he served in the Channel until June, 1802 – latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. Joining, in the ensuing August, 36, also commanded by Capt. Cumberland, he proceeded to the West Indies, where he continued uninterruptedly employed for a period of nine years in the same ship and in the, Capt. Henry Laroche,  12, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Burt, 64, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, flag-ship for some time of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, 18, Capt. Henry Tillieux Fraser,  sloop, Capts. Edw. Burt, Joshua Ricketts Rowley, Edmund Denman, and Joseph Needham Tayler, 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, and sloop, Capt. Clement Milward. Independently of numerous boat services performed during that period, and many engagements fought with privateers, he witnessed, in, in 1803, the evacuation of Aux Cayes and of other places in St. Domingo, and also the surrender, with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army from Cape François on board, of the three French frigates Surveillante, Vertu, and Clorinde – the last mentioned of which he assisted in conducting, under the present Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, to Jamaica. In the following year he took part, likewise in, in the unsuccessful attack upon Curaçoa. In the, of which vessel he was Master’s Mate, he was wrecked off , New Providence, 4 Nov. 1806; and, when holding the same post on board the , he commanded the pinnace belonging to that ship at the capture of the French schooner Calibre. After acting for three months as Lieutenant of the, he was confirmed, 28 July, 1809, into the. Having paid off the as Senior Lieutenant at the close of 1811, he was next in succession appointed – 3 Feb. 1812, to the  98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, attached to the force off Toulon, and, as First Lieutenant – 13 Nov. following, to the sloop, Capts. John Lampen Manley and Chas. Shaw, stationed at first in the Mediterranean (where he beheld the fall of Genoa), and afterwards in the East Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1816 –