Mediterranean station, April 24th, 1808. His succeeding appointments were, about Oct. 1809, to the Partridge sloop; and, Aug. 26th, 1811, to the America 74, Captain (now Sir Josias) Rowley, by whom he was officially commended for his conduct at the capture of a French convoy, under the batteries of Languilla, May 20th, 1812[1]; and when serving on shore at the reduction of Fort Santa Maria and other works in the Gulf of Spezia, in Mar. 1814. He also bore a part in the operations against Leghorn and Genoa, in 1813-14[2]. After the surrender of the latter city, he was employed in fitting out the French vessels of war found in the mole, clearing the naval arsenal, embarking stores, and launching, equipping and loading with timber, a 74-gun ship, which had been found on the stocks in an unfinished state. He continued in the America until she was paid off, about Oct. 1814. His last appointments were, in 1815, to the Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean, after Napoleon’s escape from Elba ; and, in the end of 1818, to be flag-lieutenant to the same officer on the Irish station, where he continued until Dec. 1821; on the 14th of which month he was advanced to the rank of commander.
This officer married, Feb. 6th, 1828, Louisa, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Tomkins, of Buckenhill Park, co. Hereford. One of his brothers, Anthony Oliver Molesworth, is a first lieutenant in the royal artillery.
EDWARD BLANCKLEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of H. S. Blanckley, Esq., many years Consul-General at Algiers.
This officer entered the royal navy in 1805; and served the whole of his time as midshipman under Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, in the Mercury, Imperieuse, and Glasgow frigates. He was made a lieutenant on the 6th Feb. 1815;
