having commanded the ship which conveyed his Majesty, in 1813, to Scheveling, had named that officer a Knight of the Order of William of the 2d class, but that the regulations established in England were opposed to his receiving the honor which his Majesty had conferred upon him.

"The king, always disposed to give to Lord Torrington a mark of his esteem, has charged me to avail myself of the departure of Vice-Admiral Baron Van de Capellen, to address to your Excellency a Sword of Honor, which His Majesty intends for the noble Lord, as a substitute for the order of knighthood.

"I beg your Excellency to deliver personally to Lord Torrington this honorable remembrance, giving him at the same time, in his Majesty's name, the most flattering assurances of his satisfaction. If Lord Torrington should not be in London, I beg your Excellency to acquaint him by letter, of the kind intentions of the King with regard to him.

Accept, Sir, the renewed expressions of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be,

"Your Excellency's most humble and obedient Servant,
"A. W. C. DE Nagell."

(Signed)

"To His Excellency, the Baron Fagel,

"Ambassador, &c. &c. &c.

"London."

The following is a copy of a letter on the same subject from Viscount Torrington to the Right Hon. George Canning:"United Service Club, May 6, 1824:

My dear Sir, I trust I am not incorrect in addressing myself to you, and in requesting you would interest yourself in preferring what I feel to be my just claim to a Foreign Order, which has been withheld from me, under circumstances of peculiar hardship.

"In soliciting your kind attention to those circumstances, I have to apologize for intruding myself upon your valuable time, and I rely upon your good humour to forgive it.

"The King of the Netherlands, as a testimony of my conduct, when in command of his Majesty's ship Warrior, forwarded to the Admiralty, the second Order of William III. to be conferred upon me; which Order was returned without my having any intimation of the circumstance.

"When I afterwards visited Holland, and paid my respects to the King, his Majesty was pleased to notice it, with an expression of regret, and referred me to his prime minister for an explanation; when it appeared by a communication from the Secretary to the Admiralty, that the Order in question had been sent back, with an intimation that I could not be permitted to accept it, in consequence of my not having been under fire. To this decision I submitted, without any remonstrance, as a deference due to superior authority.

"Finding, however, that Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Baker, who

served in the same expedition, junior to myself in rank, and who had only arrived on the coast the preceding day, having merely communicated with the existing government, and landed a few marines, had received the royal permission to accept and wear the third Order of William III., as appears by the London Gazette, I naturally conceived that I had a similar claim to the same indulgence.

"Without desiring to detract, in the slightest degree, from the merits of that gallant and distinguished officer, I beg leave to observe, that he was not engaged with the enemy any more than myself; the service consisted in both of us having landed men, arms, ammunition, &c.

"The King of the Netherlands, and the British Ambassador, the Earl of Clancarty, having both expressed, in the strongest manner, their sense of my services on that occasion, which you will find recorded in your own office, I am induced to hope, that his Majesty's Government will, on a reconsideration of my case, remove the invidious distinction that has, from some misapprehension no doubt, been thus drawn between myself and an officer acting under me, and by giving their sanction to my wearing the Order intended for me, dismiss those impressions which must be unfavorable to me as a naval officer. I have the honor to be,

My dear Sir,

"Your most obedient and very humble Servant,

(Signed)

"TORRINGTON."

In reply to this appeal, Viscount Torrington received a very polite note from the Prime Minister, who, however, declined to interfere in his behalf.

It is worthy of remark, that the late monarch of France, as well as the present sovereign of the Netherlands, was once under his lordship's protection. The former, while proceeding to Rostock, with his eldest son and suite, all huddled together in a British gun-brig, was fallen in with, at the entrance of the Great Belt, by the Warrior, and escorted by her to the squadron under the late Sir George Hope, then cruising off the island of Rugen.

It has been remarked by a contemporary writer, that “the naval battles of Great Britain, from the accession of the illustrious House of Hanover, commence with the name of Byng *;" and it might justly have been added, that the loyalty and zeal then manifested by the Nelson of that age, has ever since been emulated by his descendants; for no family in

* Ekins' Review of Naval Battles, 2d edit. p. I'

the empire has ever surpassed them in attachment to their sovereign, or in readiness to support the glory of his crown.

HON. JAMES ASHLEY MAUDE.

A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, and Knight of the French and Russian Orders of St. Louis and St. Anne.

This officer is the third son of Cornwallis, second Viscount Hawarden, an Irish peer, by his third wife, Anne Elizabeth Stanley, sister to the first Viscount Monck. His ancestor, Christopher Maude, a member of the Irish House of Commons, emigrated from Yorkshire, and settled at Hawarden, co. Tipperary, about the year 1639.

He was born Nov. 6, 1786; made a lieuteuant, Mar. 29, 1805; and appointed to the Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, on the Mediterranean station, in the spring of 1809. His spirited conduct while serving as a volunteer at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the bay of Rosas, on which occasion he was slightly wounded, is highly spoken of by the commander-inchief, whose official letter we have given at p. 157 et seq. His commission as a commander bears date Oct. 22, 1810.

On the 15th Feb. 1812, Captain Maude was appointed to the Nemesis 28, armée en flûte, in which ship we find him very actively employed on the coast of America, until his promotion to post rank, Mar. 11, 1814. He next obtained the command of the Favourite 20, and in her brought home the ratification, by the President and Senate of the United States, of the treaty of peace, concluded at Ghent, between Great Britain and America, with which he arrived at the Foreign office, Mar. 13, 1815. He was subsequently employed on the East India station. His last appointment was Feb. 9, 1825, to the Glasgow 50, in which frigate he conveyed Lord Strangford to Cronstadt, and afterwards proceeded to the Mediterranean.

The Glasgow was one of the British squadron at the battle of Navarin, Oct. 20, 1827*; and in consequence thereof,

* See Suppl. Part II. p. 333.

Captain Maude was nominated a C. B. &c. &c. as above. He returned home, Aug. 18, 1828.

The subject of this sketch married, Oct. 18, 1817, Albina Broderich, second daughter of his Grace the Archbishop of of Cashel.

Agents.-Messrs. Stilwell.

ANDREW PELLET GREEN, Esq.

Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and of the Swedish Military Order of the Sword.

This officer was made lieutenant in Aug. 1800; and he appears to have served under the late Sir Thomas Francis Freemantle, in the Ganges 74, and Neptune 98, at the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar, April 2, 1801, and Oct. 21, 1805*. His commission as commander bears date Feb. 1, 1812. During the ensuing winter he was very actively employed in the Shamrock brig, on the Downs station.

In April 1813, the Shamrock was placed under the orders of Captain John M'Kerlie, who had previously been sent to direct the operations of the Heligoland squadron †. The manner

The first broadside fired by the Neptune, shot away the main and mizen-masts of the Bucentaure 80, bearing Villeneuve's flag, and doubtless killed and wounded many of her crew. After passing under that ship's stern, Captain Freemantle hauled up, and soon found himself in a similar position a-stern of the huge Santissima Trinidada, whose main and mizenmasts likewise came down with a tremendous crash, just as the Leviathan was in the act of seconding a fire which her leader had so successfully opened. The Neptune then luffed up alongside the Spanish 4-decker, while the Conqueror kept up a distant fire upon her to-windward. The fore-mast of the Spaniard soon shared the fate of the others, and she lay an unmanageable wreck upon the water. At this moment Captain Freemantle had his attention suddenly called off by the movement that was making in the enemies' van, some of the ships of which, on hearing up, raked the Neptune, and caused the principal part of the damage and loss which she sustained in the action. Her masts were all more or less injured, and her standing and running rigging much cut; she received nine shot between wind and water: 10 of her crew were killed, and 34 wounded.

in which that force was employed after the arrival of Captain Arthur Farquhar, to succeed the above officer, will be seen by reference to Vol. II. Part II. p. 932 et seq.

The following are extracts of Captain Farquhar's official letter to Admiral Young, reporting the capture of the enemy's batteries at Cuxhaven :

"H. M. S. Desirée, Dec. 1, 1813.

"I have the honor to acquaint you, that the French batteries of Phare * and Napoleon, have this morning surrendered to a detachment of his Imperial Majesty's troops, commanded by Colonel Alexander Radinger, and his Britannic Majesty's squadron, as per margin, under my command†.

"On the 28th ultimo, I arrived here from Bremer-lehe, and found that Captain Green, of the Shamrock, had collected the squadron, to co-operate with the Russian troops. On the same evening, I ordered the gunboats to take a position above Napoleon, to cannonade that battery in concert with the Russians, and advanced the squadron ready to attack Phare. "On the 29th, a brisk and well-directed fire was kept up on fort Napoleon by the gun-boats, and from field-pieces on the Russian line, with considerable effect; and their tirailleurs annoyed the enemy in both batteries, by a constant fire of musketry, which was returned with vigour; and, from the battery of Phare, red-hot shot were fired, which burnt several houses in the town. During this time, we were employed in landing guns from the squadron, and erecting a battery within 400 yards of the works of Phare. On the morning of the 30th it was completed, and presented to the enemy a formidable appearance, consisting of six 18-pounders, two 32-pounders, and two 6-pounders. The morning was quite thick, and obscured our works; but as soon as it cleared, and we were ready to commence our attack, the enemy threw out a truce, which has ended in the surrender of these two extremely strong batteries, consisting of 26 heavy guns, two 13inch mortars, and a blockhouse, with a garrison of 300 officers and men, who have been made prisoners of war.

"The expedition with which Captains Green and Banks, who had the direction of forming and completing the seamen's battery, performed that service, I trust will speak for itself. Lieutenant Haultain, whom I had oc

* Cuxhaven.

↑ Desirée, and Shamrock; Blazer brig, Captain Francis Banks; Piercer gun brig, Lieutenant Joshua Kneeshaw; Redbreast ditto, Lieutenant Sir George Mouat Keith, Bart.; 5 gun-boats, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 8, and 10, commanded by Lieutenants Job Hanmer, Charles Henry Seale, Andrew Tullock, Richard Soper, and Francis Darby Romney; and 2 ditto, Nos. 2 and 5, under the command of Messrs. Thomas Riches and John Hallowes, petty officers.