A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Julyan, Robert
JULYAN. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 22; h-p., 32.)
Robert Julyan entered the Navy, 4 March, 1793, as a Boy, on board the Diadem 64, Capts. Andrew Sutherland and Chas. Tyler, in which ship he served at the occupation of Toulon in the following Aug., and in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. After witnessing, in the Moselle sloop, Capts. Chas. Brisbane and Wm. Essington, the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay 17 Aug. 1796, and serving for two years and a half in the Channel on board the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport, he became, 8 May, 1799, Acting-Lieutenant of the Robust 74, Capt. Geo. Countess. He was confirmed, 3 June in the same year, into the Penguin sloop, Capt. Bendall Robt. Littlehales, on the Irish station; and was subsequently appointed – 13 Oct. 1800, to the Defence 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet, with whom (having first shared in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801) he proceeded to Cadiz and then to the West Indies – 17 Oct. 1803, to the Sea Fencibles on the north coast of Cornwall, where he remained nearly six years and a half – and 11 Aug. 1810, to the San Juan sheer-hulk, bearing the broad pendant at first of Commodore Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, and the flag afterwards of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, at Gibraltar. During three years that he was borne on the books of that ship, Lieut. Julyan held at different times the acting-command of the Richmond, Stromboli, and Onyx gun-brigs; in the boats belonging to the former of which vessels he destroyed two French privateers under a battery near Malaga in .1811. He also held a responsible appointment at the defence of Tarifa. He was promoted, 7 June, 1814, to the command of the Rolla sloop, but was paid off, after having visited the coast of France, Halifax, and New York, 2 Dec. 1815, and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Julyan has been for some time Harbour-Master at Quebec. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.