Goodall, whom, with his flag-ship the Lord Mulgrave, Capt. Inglefield thought it his duty to detain and send to Port Royal. The ship, from motives of policy, was restored to the Haytian government, but the Admiral was taken a state-prisoner to England. For his conduct in this affair the Captain of the Daedalus received the approbation of tho Commander-in-Chief. He was at length, in the summer of 1810, ordered home in charge of a fleet of 133 valuable merchantmen; the whole of which he conducted in perfect safety to the Channel. The Daedalus[1] being paid off in Sept. 1810, Capt. Inglefield was next, on 28 Oct. 1811, ordered to commission the Malta 84, as Flag-Captain to his brother-in-law, Rear-Admiral Hallowell, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean, where, during the remainder of the war, he was occasionally employed with the in-shore squadron off Toulon, and in co-operation with the British army on the east coast of Spain. When preparations were made, in June, 1813, for the investment of Tarragona, he commanded the boats at the debarkation of the troops; and during the siege 600 seamen were put under his orders for the arduous purpose of placing the guns and howitzers in the breaching batteries, erected within 500 yards of the town works. He further assisted, in the course of the operations, in directing the fire of the gun-vessels, and on the siege being raised he was charged with the duty of bringing off the spare guns and military stores, and of re-embarking the troops. At the subsequent evacuation of the fort of St. Philippe in the Col de Balaguer, Capt. Inglefield, at the head of 1000 seamen from the fleet, was employed in dismantling and effecting the destruction of that fortification, in conjunction with the Chief Engineer of the Army, Major Thackery. For this he received the thanks in public orders both of Sir Edw. Pellew, the Commander-in-Chief, and of Rear-Admiral Hallowell. Being superseded from the Malta in Jan. 1815, for the purpose of attending as a witness the court-martial assembled at Winchester to try Lieut.-General Sir John Murray for the failure of the attack upon Tarragona, Capt. Inglefield did not succeed in obtaining re-employment until appointed, 1 March, 1826, to the Ganges 84, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Commander-in-Chief in South America. In June, 1828, the Royal Marines of the squadron present at Rio Janeiro were placed under his command and landed for the protection of the Emperor Don Pedro’s person, in consequence of a serious mutiny which had broken out among the German troops (about 1700 in number, joined by nearly 2000 Irish recruits) in the service of His Imperial Majesty; who, in acknowledgment of the important part Capt. Inglefield on the occasion acted in subduing the riots, presented him with the Second Class of the Order of the Southern Cross. The Ganges, after she had completed her term of servitude, returned to England and was paid off in Sept. 1829. In 1837 the subject of the present narrative was awarded the Captain’s Good-Service pension; he was nominated a C.B. 18 April, 1839; and on 23 Nov. 1841 he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Being appointed, 5 March, 1845, to the chief command on the S.E. coast of America, he sailed thither with his flag in the Eagle 50. He afterwards shifted it to the Vernon of similar force; and since 24 June, 1846, has had the supreme direction of naval affairs in the East Indies.
Rear-Admiral Inglefield married, 21 Oct. 1816, Priscilla Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway. By that lady, who died 18 June, 1844, he has, with one daughter (Hannah Georgina Elizabeth, married, 5 March, 1846, to Capt. Augustus De Butts, Madras Engineers, eldest son of Lieut.-General Sir Augustus De Butts, R.E., K.C.H.), six sons, of whom the eldest, Edw. Augustus, is a Commander R.N., and the second a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
INGLEFIELD. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Valentine Otway Inglefield obtained his commission 3 Feb. 1846; and since 16 of the following April has been attached to the Vernon 50, now flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield in the East Indies.
INGLIS. (Commander, 1829. f-p., 20; h-p., 20.)
Charles Inglis is eldest son of Commissioner Chas. Inglis, R.N. (Captain, 1802), who distinguished himself, as Lieutenant of the Jason 38, at the capture of the French frigate La Seine in 1798; obtained the rank of Commander for his gallantry in the Penelope at the capture of the 80-gun ship Guillaume Tell in 1800; was afterwards for many years Flag-Captain to the late Sir Geo. Martin; and died at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, 27 Feb. 1833. His brother, Patrick, is a Lieutenant R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 May, 1807, as Fst-cl. Vol., on board the Queen 98, commanded by his father, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman, chiefly under the flag of Admiral Martin, in the Canopus 60, Impétueux 74, Stately 64, and Rodney 74, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 July, 1814. He was in consequence stationed for a long time off Sicily and Lisbon, and was on board the Canopus at the pursuit and destruction, in Oct. 1809, of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion. In Sept. 1814 Lieut. Inglis took charge of a frigate-rigged boat named the Frederick William, and was sent with her as a present from the Prince Regent to the King of Prussia. He afterwards joined – 18 Nov. 1814, the Chesapeake frigate, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, at the Cape of Good Hope – 19 Sept. 1815, the Queen Charlotte 100, in which ship and the Boyne 98, bearing each the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, he served at Portsmouth until May, 1818 – 24 May, 1819, and 5 April, 1822, the Larne 18, Capts. Henry Forbes and Robt. Tait, and Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, both in the Mediterranean – 22 June and 20 Sept. 1824, the Champion sloop, Capt. John Fitzgerald Studdert, and Victory 104, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth – and, 7 May and 26 June, 1827, to the Royal Charlotte and William and Mary yachts, both commanded by Capt. John Chambers White. He attained the rank he now holds 23 April, 1829, but has not since been employed.
Commander Inglis married, 10 April, 1828, Joanna Harriet, second daughter of the late John Chas. Lucena, Esq., Consul-General from Portugal. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
INGLIS. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
George Inglis, horn about July, 1787, is son of the late Admiral John Inglis.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Aug. 1805, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Texel 64, Capt. Donald Campbell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon, at Leith; and was soon lent, for a cruize off the coast of Norway and the Shetland islands, to the Amaranthe 18, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton. Becoming Midshipman, in May, 1806, of the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, he assisted in that ship at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French 44-gun frigate Le Président, and, after escorting General Crawford’s brigade of troops to the Cape de Verde Islands, and cruizing for some time in that vicinity with a squadron commanded by Sir Sam. Hood, served under the broad pendant of Commodore Rich. Goodwin Keats in the expedition to Copenhagen. On his return to England with the 2nd battalion of the 32nd Regt., in the Princess Sophia Frederica, one of the Danish prizes, he joined the Cambrian 40, Capts. Rich. Budd Vincent and Fras. Wm. Fane, and proceeded off the east coast of
- ↑ The Daedalus, on 3 Aug. 1809, had been dismasted in a violent hurricane off the Island off Puerto Rico, and obliged in consequence, although with gteat hazard and difficulty, to be taken to Port Royal, Jamaica, where she remained 16 weeks refitting, owing to the extreme weakness of the dockyard artificers from sickness; yet during all that time, through the sanitary arrangements of Capt. Inglefield, she herself only lost 1 man and 1 boy from the fever.
