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Rh . After an attachment of two years to the 18, Capts. Wm. McKenzie Godfrey, Chas. Crole, and Alfred Matthews, on the West India station, he was there, 25 Nov. 1822, promoted to a death vacancy in the 10, commanded at first by Capts. Crole and Matthews, and afterwards by Capts. Thos. Stopford and John Geo. Graham. He has been on half-pay since 31 Jan. 1824.

Lieutenant Moss is married. – Messrs. Chard.

 MOTTLEY. 

entered the Navy 9 Oct. 1812; passed his examination in 1821; and was made Lieutenant, 11 Feb. 1829, into the 28, Capt. Septimus Arabin, on the coast of Africa. He was afterwards appointed – 5 March, 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 5 Oct. 1832, to the 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, employed in the East Indies, whence he returned in the early part of 1834 – 7 Nov. 1835, as First, to the 20, Capt. Thos. Maitland, stationed off Lisbon – 19 Jan. 1837, to the command, for Home service, of the cutter, of 8 guns – 10 March, 1838, as Senior, to the  steamer, Capt. Joseph Sherer, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he continued until superseded in May, 1839 – 7 Aug. 1839, to the  76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, of which ship, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, he became First-Lieutenant – and, 27 April and 26 July, 1842, in the latter capacity, to the 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir David Milne, and  receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodore Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng. He attained his present rank 24 Jan. 1843; and, since 29 Oct. 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.

He married, in 1838, Eliza, youngest daughter of W. Stone, Esq., builder, of Chatham Dockyard. – Joseph Woodhead.

 MOTTLEY. 

died in 1845. He was brother of the late Admiral Mottley.

This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Sam. Sutton, flag-ship in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton, whom he followed into the 98. Becoming Midshipman, in Feb. 1801, of the 80, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he took part in the actions fought, 6 and 12 July following, oif Algeciras and in the Gut of Gibraltar. In the course of 1802 he successively joined the frigate, Capt. Hardy, and  sloop, Capt. Thos. Innes; and on 2 July, 1803, he was on board, of 48 guns, Capt. Jahleel Brenton, when that ship took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, in spite of a desperate and sanguinary resistance, to strike her colours. Being restored to liberty in Oct. 1806, he was appointed (after a brief attachment, on the Home and West India stations, to the, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, 98, Capt. Geo. Losack,  74, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, and  24, Capt. John Ellis Watt) to the command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the  schooner, 5 March, 1807. In the ensuing Dec. he removed, with the rank last mentioned, to the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Mitchell. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 20 May, 1808, and was afterwards appointed – 28 of the same month, to the 80, Capt. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, in the Channel – 12 July, 1810, to the, of 48 guns and 254 men, Capts. Lord Wm. FitzRoy and John Surman Carden, off Lisbon – 26 Nov. 1813, to the 74, Capt. David Milne, on the North American station – in Nov. 1814, for passage home, to the  38, Capt. John Nash – and, 6 June, 1815, to the  74, Capt. Philip Somerville. As Second-Lieutenant of the, Mr. Mottley elicited the highest acknowledgments of Capt. Garden for his conduct, on 25 Oct. 1812, in a desperate action of 2 hours and 10 minutes, which rendered that frigate a shattered prize, after experiencing a loss of 36 men killed and 68 wounded, to the American ship United States, of 56 guns and 474 men, 12 of whom only appear to have been killed and wounded. In the, besides sharing in other operations, he commanded a boat, in a manner that obtained him much praise, at the destruction, up the Penobscot, of the American frigate Adams, 3 Sept. 1814 Quitting the in Sept. 1815, Lieut. Mottley’s next appointments were – in the summer of 1815, and in July, 1823, and March, 1825, to the command of the Hardwicke, Bat, and Revenue-cruizers – 25 April, 1834, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth, where he remained, latterly as Senior of the  104, Capt. Thos. Searle, until the spring of 1837 – and, 30 Dec. 1837, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued nearly six years and a half. He accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List 30 April, 1845, a short time only prior to his death.

Commander Mottley married, 3 Aug. 1819, Maria Dundas Beatson, of Campbell Town, by whom he has left issue. – J. Hinxman.

 MOTTLEY. 

died 13 July, 1845, as related beneath, aged 27. He was son of Geo. Henry Mottley, Esq., of Portsmouth, the talented editor of the ‘Hampshire Telegraph.’

This officer entered the Navy 14 April, 1830; passed his examination 5 July, 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 30 Aug. 1841, was serving as Mate of the 16, Capt. Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, in which sloop he had assisted, under Capt. Geo. Mansel, at the capture of St. Jean d’Acre. His succeeding appointments were – 2 Sept. 1841, again to the – 21 June, 1842 (soon after his return from the Mediterranean), to the  surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Barnett, on the North America and West India station – 10 Jan. 1844, to the steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa – and, 27 Sept. 1844, a third time, to the, then commanded by Capt. Sidney Henry Ussher. He died of fever at Ascension, as above, on board the, while on his passage to rejoin the , after having taken to Sierra Leone a slave-brig captured by her. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 MOUAT. 

, born about 1793, is son of Commander Alexander Mouat, R.N., who was a Midshipman with Capt. Cook during his voyages, and died fom fever while in command of the sloop, in the West Indies, in 1793; and grandson of Capt. Patrick Mouat, R.N., who commanded the  on a voyage of discovery with Admiral Byron. One of his uncles died in the while in command of the North American station; and two others were killed in action in the, off St. Domingo.

This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the bomb, Capt. Wm. Standway Parkinson, with whom he continued to serve, as Midshipman, in the, , and sloops, on the Home and West India stations, until 1808 – assisting, when in the  at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix. He then returned home in the 20, Capt. Wm. Ferris; and in Dec. 1808 after having served for seven months in the 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, he joined the  38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, under whom we find him employed in escorting Lord Hill’s brigade from Cork to Lisbon, the Duke of Orleans from Portsmouth to Malta, Mr. Jackson, the British Ambassador, to the