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796 Channel and Cadiz stations; and in Oct. of the latter year joined the 32, Capts. John Wight, Wm. Love, Robt. Simpson, and Sam. John Pechell. Under Capt. Pechell he assisted, on his arrival in the West Indies from Halifax, at the capture (the British ships 32 and  18 in company) of the French 40-gun frigate La Topaze, 22 Jan. 1809, after a very spirited action fought chiefly between the  and the enemy; and in the ensuing month he co-operated in the reduction of Martinique. From Oct. 1810 until Nov. 1812 Mr. Moxon served, again at Halifax and also in the North Sea, the greater part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, and in the  80, and  98, bearing each the flag of Admiral Wm. Young. He was promoted, 27 March, 1813, to a Lieutenancy in the 74, then the flag-ship of Sir J. B. Warren; and he was afterwards employed for several months in 1813-14, in the  sloop, Capts. John Kinsman and Henry Ducie Chads, and 32, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, both on the North American station. He has been on half-pay since June of the latter year.

 MOYLE. 

entered the Navy 10 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 10 March, 1836; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 10 Nov. 1842, had been for some time employed on the lakes of Canada, as Mate, in the 20, Capt. Williams Sandom. His last appointment was to the 5O, in which ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, he served from 19 Dec. 1842 until paid off in 1845. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 MOYSES. 

entered the Navy, in March, 1803, as A.B., on board the 64, Capt. Thos. Rogers, employed in the North Sea; and in the course of the same year successively joined the and  50’s, flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez off Guernsey. Becoming Midshipman, in Jan. 1804, of the 32, Capt. John Stiles, he saw much service in the boats of that frigate off the coast of France; and on removing to the  38, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb and Robt. Barrie, he was employed in a similar manner off the coast of Spain, where he assisted at the boarding and capture of several of the enemy’s privateers and other vessels. In the early part of 1807, having brought a prize under very perilous circumstances into Portsmouth, he took a passage on board the 38, Capt. Sir Thos. Lavie, for the purpose of rejoining his own ship. Before he could reach the, however, it was his misfortune to be wrecked, during a stormy night in the month of March, off the island of Ushant; on which occasion 45 of the ’s crew lost their lives. Being in consequence taken prisoner, he was doomed, notwithstanding several attempts at escape, to continue in captivity at Verdun, Givet, and Bitche, part of the time in a dungeon, until the conclusion of the war. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 11 March, 1815, but he has not been since able to procure employment.

 MUDGE. 

entered the Navy, 6 July, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 36, Capt. Zachary Mudge, in which frigate (with the exception of five months, from Oct. 1808 to March 1809, passed in the  38, Capt. Thos. Dundas) he served, on the Channel and Cork stations, until May, 1812. He then sailed, in the 32, Capts. Joseph Drury and Barrington Reynolds, for the East Indies, where he was further, until the summer of 1814, employed in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, 36, Capts. Stephen Thos. Digby and Basil Hall, and sloop, Capt. Hon. Thos. Roper Curzon. In June, 1815, after having served, at Sheerness, in the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, and 100, Capt. Chas. Inglis, he took up a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year. His appointments have since been, 17 Aug. 1820 and 15 Dec. 1826, to the office of Agent for Transports Afloat; and to the continuous command, 3 June, 1837, in the course of 1845, and 12 Jan. 1846, of the, , and steam-packets on the Dover station, where he still remains.

 MUDGE. 

is son of the late John Mudge, Esq., of Plymouth, an eminent Physician.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 84, Capt. John Jervis; and, on 21 April, 1782, assisted at the capture, after a gallant action of nearly an hour, attended, however, with no casualty to the British, of the French 74-gun ship Pégase, whose loss, besides being seriously damaged, amounted, out of a crew of 700 men, to 80 killed and wounded. During the next seven years we find him serving on the Home and American stations, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, on board the and another ship, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Geo, Cranfield Berkeley,  64, Capt. Chas. Hope, 22, Capt. Geo. Palmer, 50, flagship of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and  74, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe. He was then, 24 May, 1789, promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 50, bearing the flag at Jamaica of Rear-Admiral Peter Affleck; and he was next appointed – 26 Nov. in the same year, to the  74, Capt. Ford, lying at Plymouth – 20. Jan. 1790, again to the, Capt. John Gibson, employed on the Irish and Channel stations – and, 15 Dec. 1790 and 8 Feb. 1794, as Senior, to the and , in which ships he was for six years employed on voyages of discovery under Capts. Vancouver and Broughton. When at Nootka Sound in the Mr. Mudge was despatched in an open vessel to India, with a crew of only 14 men. Being awarded a second promotal commission 24 Nov. 1797, he obtained command, 8 Nov. 1798, of the 16; and while in that sloop, in which he continued until posted, 15 Nov. 1800, he effected the capture of the French privateers Le Glaneur, of 6 guns and 32 men, and Le Trompeur, and was all but lost on an immense island of ice during his passage home from Halifax with despatches from H.R.H. the Duke of Kent. His subsequent appointments were – 1 April, 1801, to 24 – 23 Sept. 1802, to the  of 44 guns – 18 Nov. 1805, to the  36 – and, 4 July, 1814 (having left the  in May, 1810), to the  74. In Capt. Mudge, in the spring of 1801, received the thanks of the British merchants and consuls at Lisbon and Oporto for the service he had rendered them in safely convoying a fleet from Falmouth to Portugal, and also for the activity he had exhibited in collecting some vessels at Viana, laden with brandy, which could not have otherwise been got ready to go home under his protection. About the same period he captured the Spanish national cutter El Duides, of 8 guns and 69 men, and lugger privateer Venture, of 2 guns and 27 men. In July, 1801, with the assistance of the 18, and of the boats of the two ships, we find him making prize, near Cape Ortegal, of El Cantara, Spanish privateer of 22 guns and 110 men, and of her consort, a vessel mounting 10 guns. was subsequently engaged in conveying a number of disbanded foreign soldiers from Lymington to the Elbe. At the close of 1803, Capt. Mudge, then in the, was employed at the blockade of St. Domingo; where, in less than a month, he captured and destroyed 24 of the enemy’s vessels. In the course of 1804-5 he had the increased good fortune to take, 