close this account without doing justice to Lieutenant Jack, at present the senior lieutenant of this ship, who has carried on the service with great activity on all occasions, and particularly when my personal attendance was required on shore, in different situations during the siege.”
On the 9th Jan. 1814, after considerable difficulty from the ice, the Shamrock entered the haven of Gluckstadt, and took possession of the Danish flotilla there, consisting of one brig and seven gun-boats. From thence Captain Marshall was despatched to Kiel, in order to establish the claims of the British squadron to the enemy’s vessels, naval stores, &c. taken in the Elbe.
On the breaking up of the ice, the Shamrock proceeded to Cuxhaven, where she remained whilst six of the gun-boats, under the directions of her only Lieutenant, Mr. James Edgecombe, co-operated with the allies at the reduction of Hamburgh and Haarbourgh.
Captain Marshall was advanced to post-rank, June 7, 1814; and nominated a C.B. in June, 1815. At the commencement of the latter year he obtained the royal license and permission to accept and wear the insignia of the foreign orders mentioned at the commencement of this memoir, “with which their Imperial and Royal Majesties, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Sweden, had respectively honored him, in testimony of the high sense which those Sovereigns entertained of his bravery aud services during the siege of Gluckstadt, and at the blockade of Hamburgh and Haarburgh[1].”
In 1826, Captain Marshall was appointed superintendant of the lazarettos at Milford, from whence he removed to the quarantine establishment in Standgate Creek, about Jan. 1827. He married, in 1828, Augusta Eliza, youngest daughter of J. Wynne, of Garthmello, co. Denbigh, Esq. and granddaughter of the late Dr. S. Parr, Prebendary of St. Pauls.
- ↑ London Gazette, Jan. 10, 1815.
