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Rh  of a large number of merchantmen, the Gracieuse and Amitié, French national vessels of 14 guns each, the Dutch schooner Nimrod, of 4 guns, and the French privateer Le Hasard, of 3 guns and 58 men. On 19 July in the latter year, however, the was herself captured (after an action of 45 minutes, and a loss, out of 215 men, of 8 killed and 15 wounded, and when on the verge of sinking) by a powerful French squadron, consisting of La Topaze frigate, of 44 guns and 410 men, one sloop of 22 guns and 236 men, a corvette of 18 guns and 213 men, a,nd a brig of 16 guns and 123 men. Under such circumstances Capt. Mudge was of course honourably acquitted by court-martial of all blame in the loss of his ship; and not only acquitted but eulogised for his very able and gallant conduct. He afterwards served, as above, in the and, on the Bay of Biscay, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations. The latter ship he left in Aug. 1815. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.

 MUIR. 

(a) entered the Navy, in 1784, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. Paget Bailey, on the West India station, where, and at Home, he afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Aug. 1794, served as Midshipman in the  frigate, Capt. Davidge Gould,  90, bearing the flag of Lord Hood,  sloop, Capt. Jas. Leakey, and 74, Capt. Chas. Cotton. Being then re-appointed to the latter ship, he again sailed for the West Indies, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Caldwell. His subsequent appointments (after serving for a short time under the flag of Sir Chas. Thompson in the 74) were, chiefly on the Home station – 15 April, 1796, to the  32, Capt. Israel Pellew – 13 March, 1797, to the  28, Capt. Chas. White, under whom, we believe, he assisted at the capture, 10 April and 13 May following, of Le Voltigeur privateer, of 8 guns, 8 swivels, and 40 men, and La Jalouse corvette of 18 guns – 21 June, 1799, to the 80, Capt. Sir Henry Trollope, which ship was paid off at the peace – 5 Aug. 1803, to the Sea Fencibles at Rochester – 25 June, 1804, to the  74, Capt. Lord Garlics – next to the  98, Capt. Sir Thos.Troubridge – 18 June, 1805, to the  bomb, Capts. John Telland and Thos. Searle – 6 Feb. 1807 (after a] few months of half-pay), to the 74, Capt. Thos. Graves – 13 July, 1808, to the command of a signal station, which he retained until Feb. 1809 – and, 26 July, 1810, and (having been for nine months unemployed) 30 Oct. 1812, to the Impress service at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and at the Tower of London. He was placed on half-pay 30 April, 1814; and on the Senior List of Retired Commanders 16 Aug. 1831. – Joseph Woodhead.

 MULLER. 

entered the Navy, 9 Oct. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. John McDougall and Edw. Buller, employed at first in the Channel, and then in the Mediterranean, where, in April, 1800, he removed as Midshipman, a rating he had attained in Dec. 1797, to the 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Robt. Mansel and Chas. Carter. After a servitude of two years and eight months on the Channel and Jamaica stations in the sloop, Capt. Wm. Richardson, 36, Capt. Hon. John Colville,  18, Capts. Wm. Rathborne and Austin Bissell, and and  74’s, both flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, under whom he participated in many operations off St. Domingo, he was promoted, 4 Nov. 1803, to a Lieutenancy in the 32, Capts. John Perkins, Edw. Hawker, and Stephen Poyntz; in which ship we find him contributing to the capture, 9 June, 1806, of L’Observateur French national brig of 18 guns and 104 men. On his return to England from Halifax in the following Dec. he obtained an appointment to the 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby in the Channel. He was afterwards, from Feb. 1809 until Jan. 1815, and from Nov. 1818 until Jan. 1823, employed in command of a signal-station, and as an Inspecting Commander in the Water Guard.

 MUNDY, K.C.B.

is son of the late Edw. Miller Mundy, Esq., M.P. for Derbyshire; and is closely connected with the Dukes of Newcastle, Grafton, and Richmond.

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 9 July, 1789, and embarked, in Oct. 1792, as Midshipman, on board the frigate, Capt. Christ. Parker. On his return, in Jan. 1793, from the West Indies in the 22, Capt. Geo. Palmer, he was received on board the 100, bearing the flag of Sir Hyde Parker, and next on board the  32, Capt. Sam. Hood, which frigate, in Jan. 1794, made a very remarkable escape from the inner harbour of Toulon, into which she had entered in ignorance of its evacuation by the British. After assisting at the capture of many of the enemy’s vessels, and at the reduction of St. Fiorenzo, Mr. Mundy followed Capt. Hood into 36, part of the force employed at the taking of Bastia and Calvi. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (having acted for nearly two mouths as such) in the 98, Capt. Sam. Peard, 11 March, 1796; and he was subsequently appointed in that capacity to the 98, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, 100, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, and 74, Capt. Thos. Foley. In the he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797; and in the  he shared in the glories of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798. In the following Oct. he was nominated Acting-Commander of the brig of 14 guns, in which vessel (the appointment being confirmed by commission dated 24 Dec. in the same year) we find him constantly employed on hazardous service off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean until Aug. 1800. Being advanced, while serving in the sloop, to Post-rank in the  of 74 guns, 10 Feb. 1801, he afterwards obtained command – 7 April, 1802, of the  28, in the Channel – 21 Oct. 1802, of the  38, in which frigate he continued eight years – 14 Oct. 1814, of the  74, stationed, until July, 1816, in the Channel and Mediterranean – and, 27 May, 1825, and 29 Dec. 1828, of the  and  yachts. In the Capt. Mundy was at first employed off the coast of France, where he made prize, 25 June and 1 Aug. 1803, of the privateers La Phoebe, of 4 guns and 2 swivels, and Le Favori, of 4 guns, and, 30 Jan. 1804, of No. 51 gun-brig, of 3 guns and 56 men, and No. 411 lugger, of 1 gun and 36 men. He was next ordered to the Mediterranean, where, during Nelson’s pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies, he was left under the orders of the Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel to assist in protecting Sardinia, Sicily, &c., against the designs of the enemy; a service in which he acquired reputation for exemplary vigilance and activity. On 27 Feb. 1806, being off Cadiz lighthouse, he succeeded in capturing, in the presence of four French frigates, the national brig Le Furet, pierced for 20 guns, mounting 18, with a complement of 132 men; and, on 28 of the ensuing April, he took, after a chase of 230 miles, the Spanish war-schooner Arganauta, mounting 4 guns, but pierced for 12. Subsequently to this he escorted a fleet of transports to Sicily, conveyed the British Consul to Algiers, attacked and dispersed a division of gun-boats on the coast of Granada, and captured the Tigre Spanish letter-of-marque. On 7 Aug. 1807 we find him, with the assistance of his boats, possessing