by John Marshall

“ Hugh Stewart Morris to be mulcted of all pay and prize-money then due to him, to be imprisoned two years in solitary confinement, and to be rendered incapable of ever again serving His Majesty, his heirs and successors, either as an officer or petty-officer. ”

“ Lieutenant Fleming’s last appointment was, July 3d, 1816, to the Queen Charlotte 120, fitting out for the flag of Lord Exmouth, and destined against Algiers. During the attack upon that “warlike city,” he commanded with great credit a battering-vessel (No. 5) , mounting one 68-pounder; and after expending all his ammunition, blew up an ordnance sloop, charged with 143 barrels of gunpowder, close under the semicircular battery to the northward of the lighthouse; which must have operated very successfully as a diversion in favour of the severely mauled Impregnable. ”

“ Hugh Stewart Morris, midshipman of the Carlotta, was tried by a court-martial, for disobedience of orders, for embezzling, or designing to embezzle, the cargo of a prize settee, and for attempting to desert; as were also Francis Baynson and François Richie, seamen, for aiding him therein, and attempting to desert. It appeared in evidence, that the settee was detained on the 18th Oct. 1812, and the prisoner Morris sent on board to take charge of her, with orders to accompany the Carlotta to Malta. ”