he accepted employment in the Sea-Fencible service, under Captain Robert Barton, with whom he served in the Isle of Wight for about four months. His subsequent appointments were, in Aug. 1804, to be first of the Lapwing 28, then commanded by Captain Francis William Fane, but afterwards by Captain Clotworthy Upton, on the Irish station; – July 1805, to the Hind 28, Captain Fane, which ship was employed in[errata 1] almost every part of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles; – and July 1808, to the Cambrian 40, Captain Fane, under whom he continued to serve, principally on the coast of Catalonia, until that officer was taken prisoner, at Palamos, Dec. 13th, 1810[1].
On the 12th and 14th April, 1811, the towns of St. Philon and Palamos were taken possession of, the guns all embarked, and the batteries destroyed, by the Cambrian, then under the command of Captain Charles Ballen, and Volontaire 38, Captain the Hon. George G. Waldegrave. A large settee, deeply laden with grain for the French army at Barcelona, was afterwards “most handsomely cut out from under the Medas Islands by the boats of the Cambrian, led on by Lieutenant Conolly, without a man being hurt[2].”
We lastly find the subject of this memoir joining the Pomone 38, in which frigate he served as first lieutenant, under Captain Fane and his successor, the late Sir Philip Carteret Silvester, from Jan. 18th, 1812, until Jan. 14th, 1814. In the former year, he appears to have visited Newfoundland, and subsequently Lisbon. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Dec. 4th, 1813.
This officer, some years since, published a work having for its object the establishment of “one universal and uniform system of watching, quartering, and stationing, adapted to all classes of ships.” He is also the author of “A System of Great Gun Exercise for the Navy.” His brothers, six in number, are all commissioned officers in the army, navy, and royal marines.
Errata:
- ↑ Correction: employed in should be amended to employed in Egypt and
