Royal Naval Biography/Mottley, Samuel
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SAMUEL MOTTLEY Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant, May 30, 1782; and obtained the rank of Commander, April 29, 1799. In the spring of 1801 we find him proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Hindostan, a 54-gun ship armed en flute; and subsequently commanding the Rattlesnake sloop of war, and Diomede of 50 guns, on the same station; from whence he returned to England as a passenger on board the Leopard 50, in Feb. 1803. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802. During the late contest with France he held several appointments as a Regulating Captain of the Impress, and an Agent for Prisoners of War; but we believe he was never called into active service.