ently of a large number of merchantmen, the Gracieuse and Amitié, French national vessels of 14 guns each,[1] the Dutch schooner Nimrod, of 4 guns,[2] and the French privateer Le Hasard, of 3 guns and 58 men. On 19 July in the latter year, however, the Blanche was herself captured (after an action of 45 minutes, and a loss, out of 215 men, of 8 killed and 15 wounded, and when on the verge of sinking) by a powerful French squadron, consisting of La Topaze frigate, of 44 guns and 410 men, one sloop of 22 guns and 236 men, a corvette of 18 guns and 213 men, a,nd a brig of 16 guns and 123 men.[3] Under such circumstances Capt. Mudge was of course honourably acquitted by court-martial of all blame in the loss of his ship; and not only acquitted but eulogised for his very able and gallant conduct. He afterwards served, as above, in the Phoenix and Valiant, on the Bay of Biscay, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations. The latter ship he left in Aug. 1815. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.
MUIR. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 29; h-p., 34.)
Thomas Muir (a) entered the Navy, in 1784, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Scorpion sloop, Capt. Paget Bailey, on the West India station, where, and at Home, he afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Aug. 1794, served as Midshipman in the Brune frigate, Capt. Davidge Gould, Duke 90, bearing the flag of Lord Hood, Racehorse sloop, Capt. Jas. Leakey, and Majestic 74, Capt. Chas. Cotton. Being then re-appointed to the latter ship, he again sailed for the West Indies, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Caldwell. His subsequent appointments (after serving for a short time under the flag of Sir Chas. Thompson in the Montagu 74) were, chiefly on the Home station – 15 April, 1796, to the Amphion 32, Capt. Israel Pellew – 13 March, 1797, to the Vestal 28, Capt. Chas. White, under whom, we believe, he assisted at the capture, 10 April and 13 May following, of Le Voltigeur privateer, of 8 guns, 8 swivels, and 40 men, and La Jalouse corvette of 18 guns – 21 June, 1799, to the Juste 80, Capt. Sir Henry Trollope, which ship was paid off at the peace – 5 Aug. 1803, to the Sea Fencibles at Rochester – 25 June, 1804, to the Ajax 74, Capt. Lord Garlics – next to the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Sir Thos.Troubridge – 18 June, 1805, to the Fury bomb, Capts. John Telland and Thos. Searle – 6 Feb. 1807 (after a] few months of half-pay), to the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves – 13 July, 1808, to the command of a signal station, which he retained until Feb. 1809 – and, 26 July, 1810, and (having been for nine months unemployed) 30 Oct. 1812, to the Impress service at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and at the Tower of London. He was placed on half-pay 30 April, 1814; and on the Senior List of Retired Commanders 16 Aug. 1831. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
MULLER. (Lieut., 1803. f-p., 23; h-p., 28.)
Henry Muller entered the Navy, 9 Oct. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Edgar 74, Capts. John McDougall and Edw. Buller, employed at first in the Channel, and then in the Mediterranean, where, in April, 1800, he removed as Midshipman, a rating he had attained in Dec. 1797, to the Adventure 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Robt. Mansel and Chas. Carter. After a servitude of two years and eight months on the Channel and Jamaica stations in the Autumn sloop, Capt. Wm. Richardson, Ambuscade 36, Capt. Hon. John Colville, Racoon 18, Capts. Wm. Rathborne and Austin Bissell, and Leviathan and Hercule 74’s, both flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, under whom he participated in many operations off St. Domingo, he was promoted, 4 Nov. 1803, to a Lieutenancy in the Tartar 32, Capts. John Perkins, Edw. Hawker, and Stephen Poyntz; in which ship we find him contributing to the capture, 9 June, 1806, of L’Observateur French national brig of 18 guns and 104 men. On his return to England from Halifax in the following Dec. he obtained an appointment to the Dreadnought 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby in the Channel. He was afterwards, from Feb. 1809 until Jan. 1815, and from Nov. 1818 until Jan. 1823, employed in command of a signal-station, and as an Inspecting Commander in the Water Guard.
MUNDY, K.C.B. (Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1841. f-p., 27; h-p., 31.)
Sir George Mundy is son of the late Edw. Miller Mundy, Esq., M.P. for Derbyshire; and is closely connected with the Dukes of Newcastle, Grafton, and Richmond.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 9 July, 1789, and embarked, in Oct. 1792, as Midshipman, on board the Blanche frigate, Capt. Christ. Parker. On his return, in Jan. 1793, from the West Indies in the Perseus 22, Capt. Geo. Palmer, he was received on board the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Hyde Parker, and next on board the Juno 32, Capt. Sam. Hood, which frigate, in Jan. 1794, made a very remarkable escape from the inner harbour of Toulon, into which she had entered in ignorance of its evacuation by the British. After assisting at the capture of many of the enemy’s vessels, and at the reduction of St. Fiorenzo, Mr. Mundy followed Capt. Hood into L’Aigle 36, part of the force employed at the taking of Bastia and Calvi. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (having acted for nearly two mouths as such) in the St. George 98, Capt. Sam. Peard, 11 March, 1796; and he was subsequently appointed in that capacity to the Blenheim 98, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, Victory 100, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, and Goliath 74, Capt. Thos. Foley. In the Blenheim he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797; and in the Goliath he shared in the glories of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798. In the following Oct. he was nominated Acting-Commander of the Transfer brig of 14 guns, in which vessel (the appointment being confirmed by commission dated 24 Dec. in the same year) we find him constantly employed on hazardous service off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean until Aug. 1800. Being advanced, while serving in the Swan sloop, to Post-rank in the Vengeance of 74 guns, 10 Feb. 1801, he afterwards obtained command – 7 April, 1802, of the Carysfort 28, in the Channel – 21 Oct. 1802, of the Hydra 38, in which frigate he continued eight years – 14 Oct. 1814, of the Ajax 74, stationed, until July, 1816, in the Channel and Mediterranean – and, 27 May, 1825, and 29 Dec. 1828, of the Prince Regent and Royal George yachts. In the Hydra Capt. Mundy was at first employed off the coast of France, where he made prize, 25 June and 1 Aug. 1803, of the privateers La Phoebe, of 4 guns and 2 swivels, and Le Favori, of 4 guns, and, 30 Jan. 1804, of No. 51 gun-brig, of 3 guns and 56 men, and No. 411 lugger, of 1 gun and 36 men.[4] He was next ordered to the Mediterranean, where, during Nelson’s pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies, he was left under the orders of the Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel to assist in protecting Sardinia, Sicily, &c., against the designs of the enemy; a service in which he acquired reputation for exemplary vigilance and activity. On 27 Feb. 1806, being off Cadiz lighthouse, he succeeded in capturing, in the presence of four French frigates, the national brig Le Furet, pierced for 20 guns, mounting 18, with a complement of 132 men; and, on 28 of the ensuing April, he took, after a chase of 230 miles, the Spanish war-schooner Arganauta, mounting 4 guns, but pierced for 12.[5] Subsequently to this he escorted a fleet of transports to Sicily, conveyed the British Consul to Algiers, attacked and dispersed a division of gun-boats on the coast of Granada, and captured the Tigre Spanish letter-of-marque. On 7 Aug. 1807 we find him, with the assistance of his boats, possessing
