guns; and on the 22d May, 1793, sailed from Spithead with the fleet under Lord Hood, whom he accompanied to Gibraltar, and returned from thence with the homeward bound trade.
On the 24th Sept. in the same year, Captain Taylor obtained post rank, and soon after, the command of la Prompte, of 20 guns, stationed in the North Sea. From that vessel he was removed into the Andromeda frigate, and served in her on the coast of Scotland, at Newfoundland, Halifax, and in the Channel, until the spring of 1799, when he succeeded the Hon. Michael de Courcy, in the command of the Magnanime, of 48 guns, in which ship he assisted at the capture of the island of Goree in April 1801[1]; and then proceeded to the West Indies, where he continued during the remainder of the war.
Our officer was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Aug. 1, 1811. His commission as Vice-Admiral bears date Aug. 12, 1819.
SIR JAMES NICOLL MORRIS,
Vice-Admiral of the White; and Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
The subject of this memoir is the son of a gallant officer, who commanded the Bristol, of 50 guns, and was mortally wounded at the attack upon Sullivan’s Island, in North America, June 28, 1778[2]. Notwithstanding the number and severity of his wounds, he refused to quit the deck until an unlucky shot took off his arm, when he was obliged to be carried below, in a condition which left but little hopes of his recovery. It is said of this heroic man, that when from a prodigious effusion of blood, his dissolution appeared inevitable, one of his officers asked him if he had any directions to give with respect to his family? to which he nobly answered, “None; as he left them to the providence of God, and the generosity of his country.” His late Majesty was graciously
