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.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
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 lieutenant. 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-in-chief, 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, 1816. 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[1]; and in consequence thereof,
