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 Moriarty and Charles Mayson Moncreiffe Wright, Messrs, Robert Ward and William Stephens (Admiralty midshipmen), and sixteen sailors and marines wounded. The Hon. Company’s cruisers had four killed, eight wounded, and three burnt by the explosion of the mines.

Lieutenant Moriarty’s promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 1st Nov. 1822. He now holds a civil appointment at Port Dalrymple, in Van Diemen’s Land. 



his first commission on the 5th Dec. 1806. During the latter part of the French war, he was senior lieutenant of the Tyrian sloop. Commander Augustus Baldwin. In Oct. 1814, he was appointed to the Boyne 98, Captain (now Sir Frederick L.) Maitland, fitting out for the Halifax station. He subsequently commanded the Watchful revenue cutter. He was promoted to his present rank on the 26th Dec. 1822; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard, Feb. 28th, 1823. 



the royal navy in 1799; and was a midshipman in the squadron under Captain John Loring, at the evacuation of Cape François, in the island of St. Domingo, by the French troops under General Rochambeau, in Nov. 1803. He obtained the rank of lieutenant in June 1807; and a commander’s commission on the 26th Dec. 1822; was appointed to the Vernon 60, fitting out for the flag of Sir George Cockburn, Dec. 20th, 1832; invalided from that ship on the 26th April, 1833; and is now serving in the Caledonia 120, Captain Thomas Brown, on the Mediterranean station.

