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 Robert, a Vice-Admiral; John, a Lieutenant-General and K.C.B.; Samuel, a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards; and George Robert, a Captain R.N. His only child died previous to the Java’s action.



 Marryats are descended from le Sieur Thomas Marriatte, a protestant native of Normandy, and an officer in the Hugonot army (under Admiral Coligni), who escaped the massacre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24th, 1572, and fled to England with the loss of all his property. One of his descendants, Obadiah Marryat, a presbyterian divine, was ejected from the living of Aston-Clinton, co. Bucks, for non-conformity, at the restoration of Charles II.

The subject of this memoir is the second son of the late Joseph Marryat, Esq. M.P. for Sandwich, Chairman of the Committee of Lloyd’s, and Colonial Agent for the island of Grenada, by Charlotte, third daughter of the late Frederick Geyer, Esq., a distinguished American loyalist, who suffered severely, as well from the steadiness of his attachment to the cause of Great Britain, during the struggle with her revolted colonies, as from the shock which property in general was made to undergo at the establishment of their independence. Thomas Marryat, M.D., father of the said Joseph Marryat, Esq. was the author of “Therapeutics, or Art of Healing.”

Mr. Frederick Marryat was born in London, July 10th, 1792; and entered the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Imperieuse frigate, Captain Lord Cochrane, Sept. 23d, 1806. In the ensuing winter, he witnessed the capture and destruction of three French national transports and twelve