where he arrived after a most harassing voyage of thirty-eight days[1]. He afterwards served in the fleet off Toulon. His subsequent appointments were, June 21st, 1814, to be first lieutenant of the Prospero sloop, Captain George Greensill; and, in 1820, to the command of the Richmond, revenue cruiser, on the Irish station, where he captured a large smuggling cutter, and by his activity prevented others from landing their cargoes, for his “long and active services,” he was rewarded with a commander’s commission, dated May 27th, 1825.
This officer’s brother, the Rev. Frederick Morris, was chaplain of the Alexander 74, Captain Richard Rodney Bligh, when that ship, after a most heroic defence, fell into the enemy’s possession, Nov. 6th, 1794[2]; of the Theseus 74, bearing the flag of Nelson, at the attack upon Teneriffe, in 1797; and of the same ship, at the battle of the Nile, and when employed on the coast of Syria, where he lost his life through an accidental explosion of shells, in 1799[3].
GEORGE EDWARD MARSHALL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 22d Sept. 1807; and after serving under various distinguished officers, promoted to the rank of commander in May 1825. He is at present employed in the Irish coast guard service.
HENRY SLADE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 12th Nov. 1808. We first find him serving on board the Bulwark 74, Captain Farmery P. Epworth, in an expedition up the Penobscot river. North America, where he commanded a party of seamen on shore at the capture of the towns of Hamden and Bangor, Sept. 3d, 1814[4].
