man to the Vanguard 80, commanded in the Meditenanean by Capts. Hon. Buncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thos. Fellowes. Joining next, in June, 1837, the Wellesley 72, bearing the flag of his uncle, Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland, he served as Mate of that ship at the taking of Currachee in Feb. 1839, and in her boats in a skirmish at Bushehr, in the Persian Gulf, in April of the same year. His appointments as Lieutenant, a rank he attained on 6 of the month last mentioned, appear to have been – 10 July, 1839, to the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Wm. Warren – 23 June, 1840, again to the Wellesley, Capt. Thos. Maitland – 16 Oct. 1841, to the command of the Algerine 10 – and, 20 Sept. 1842, to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. In the Hyacinth Mr. Maitland was in action with the enemy’s junks at Chuenpee; and, when in the Wellesley, he assisted in demolishing the enemy’s fortifications at the latter place – landed, during the attack on the Bogue forts, in command, with Mr. W. H. Hall of the Nemesis, of a party of seamen and marines, and took possession of Little Tycocktow, spiking at the same time its guns, and destroying a neighbouring encampment – and united in the operations against Canton, Amoy, Chusan, Chinghae,[1] and Ningpo. In the attack upon Amoy his skull was fractured and he was otherwise much injured. During his command of the Algerine we find him particularly mentioned for his conduct at the capture of Chapoo, where, after he had assisted in landing the troops, he accompanied them on their advance, and with his own hands slew two mandarins.[2] He was also employed in the same vessel in surveying the Yang-tse-kiang, and was present in action with the Woosung batteries, and at the pacification of Nanking.[3] On his return to England in the Blonde in March, 1843, Mr. Maitland found that his services had procured him a Commander’s commission dated 23 Dec. 1842. His last appointment was, 31 Jan. 1846, to the command of the Electra 14, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he remained until his health obliged him to invalid, in March, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MALCOLM, Kt. (Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 1847. f-p., 26; h-p., 30.)
Sir Charles Malcolm, born 5 Sept. 1782, is tenth and youngest son of the late Geo. Malcolm, Esq., of Burnfoot, co. Dumfries (a descendant of the Malcolms of Lahore and Innertiel), by Margaret, sister of Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley, who held a Rear-Admiral’s command, and was raised to the dignity of a Baronet for his gallantry, in the action of 1 June, 1794. He is brother of Sir Jas. Malcolm, K.C.B., Colonel of Marines, who was with Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar, and earned distinction during the late war in Spain and North America – of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.,[4] – and of the late Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., a General Officer in the Army, who died in 1833. Another of his brothers, George, a Lieutenant in the R.N., died at St. Domingo in 1794. Sir Charles is first-cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Briggs, G.C.M.G.
This officer (whose name had been borne from 10 Sept. 1791 until Aug. 1792 on the books of the Vengeance 74, bearing the broad pendant of his uncle. Commodore Pasley, and from April to Dec. 1793 on those of the Penelope 32, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley) embarked, in April, 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Fox 32, commanded by his brother, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and fitting for the East India station;[5] where, in Jan. 1798, he was Master’s Mate of that vessel, when, in company with La Sybille 38, she entered the Spanish harbour of Manilla under French disguise, and (notwithstanding that there were lying there three ships of the line and three frigates) assisted in capturing seven boats, 200 men, and a large quantity of ammunition and implements of war. In the course of the same month we find Mr. Malcolm present in an action with the enemy’s batteries at Samboangon, in the island of Magindanao, in which the loss sustained by the two ships amounted to 6 killed and 16 wounded. Accompanying his brother in June, 1798, into the Suffolk 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier, he was promoted, 12 Jan. 1799, to a Lieutenancy in that ship. He continued in her until nominated Acting-Commander, 3 Oct. 1801, of the Albatross sloop – an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed 28 May, 1802. On his arrival home in the spring of 1803, as Acting-Captain of the Eurydice 24, he found that he had been officially posted on 29 of the preceding Dec. His succeeding appointments were – 6 April, 1804, for four months, to the Raisonnable 64, Stationed in the North Sea – 17 Sept. 1806, to the Narcissus 32 – 17 June, 1809, to the Rhin 38, in which ship he continued until Aug. 1815 – 15 Sept. 1817, to the Sybille 44, fitting for the flag of Sir Home Popham, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, whence he invalided in Feb. 1819 – and 8 July, 1822, and 30 June, 1826, to the William and Mary and Royal Charlotte yachts, lying at Dublin for the purpose of attending on the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquess Wellesley, a service on which he continued until 28 Nov. 1827. On the night of 30 Oct. 1807 Capt. Malcolm, then in the Narcissus, made a desperate attack with four boats on a convoy of 30 sail, lying in Couquet Roads, near Brest, under the protection of several heavy batteries, a cutter, and two gun-brigs, but was eventually obliged to retire with a loss of 7 men killed, and 16, including himself slightly, wounded. Towards the close of the same year it was his fortune to be the chief instrument, as testified by an address from the merchants, of preserving the property of the British at Oporto from falling into the hands of the French. So great was his anxiety on the occasion to afford whatever assistance he could, that, although on the point of starting on a cruize which promised to be most productive, he relinquished that intention, and, when ordered to England with a convoy of 49 sail, not only received on board the plate and other valuable property belonging to the merchants, but actually took charge of 180 pipes of wine – a service of which the Admiralty
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 396.
- ↑ In allusion to the conduct of Lieut. Maitland on the occasion. Sir Wm. Parker, in his despatch, expresses himself thus: – “He bids fair to rival the gallantry of his lamented uncle, that bright ornament of his profession, the late Sir Frederic Maitland.” – Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3693.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 3397, 3404.
- ↑ Sir Pulteney Malcolm was born 20 Feb. 1768, and entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1778, on board the Sybil frigate, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Pasley. He was promoted (after having shared in an action between Commodore Johnstone and a French squadron under M. de Suffrein in Porto Praya Bay) to the rank of Lieutenant 3 March, 1783; was made Commander 3 April, 1794; and posted 22 Oct. in the same year. Between the latter period and that of his advancement to Flag-rank, 4 Dec. 1813, he held command in succession of the Fox 32, Suffolk and Victorious 74’s, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Rainier, Royal Sovereign 100, Kent, Renown, Donegal, and Royal Oak 74’s, and San Josef 110. In those ships his general activity, and the skill and judgment he exhibited on all occasions, gained him much distinction. He commanded the Donegal in Nelson’s pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies; also in Sir John Duckworth’s action (for which he obtained a gold medal and a vase fiom the Patriotic Society, valued at 100l.); and at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads. In the Kent he officiated as Captain of the Fleet under Lord Keith. During the latter portion of the operations on the Coast of North America he held a Rear-Admiral’s command, and was employed in that capacity in the attack upon New Orleans. In the summer of 1815, Sir Pulteney (who had been nominated in 1812 a Colonel of Royal Marines, and in Jan. 1815 a K.C.B.) was appointed to the command of a Naval force ordered to co-operate with the Duke of Wellington and the allied armies. He next, from the spring of 1816 until the close of 1817, commanded in chief on the St. Helena station; and, attaining the rank of Vice-Admiral 19 July, 1821, was further employed as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean from June, 1828, until June, 1831, in the Downs and on the coast of Holland with the combined fleets of France aud Spain under his orders in 1832, and again in the Mediterranean from May, 1833, until April, 1834. He was created a G.C.M G. in 1829, a G.C.B. in 1833, and a full Admiral 10 Jan. 1837. He died 20 July, 1838.
- ↑ The Fox, in Nov. 1796, conveyed the present Duke of Wellington, then Colonel Wellesley, of the 33rd Regt., from the Cape of Good Hope to India.
