by John Marshall

“ We were then prepared to have opened with eleven 32-pounders, twelve 18-pounders, four mortars, and four howitzers.
“Every captain, officer, and other person in the squadron has done his duty. Captain Rowley has been, as usual, most prominent on every occasion, I admired the example he shewed at the attack of the Schanza, with the courage and activity of Lieutenants Hotham and Moore, and Mr Hibbert, midshipman of the Eagle [4] .” ”

“ On the 8th June, 1813, the boats of the Elizabeth (74) and Eagle, under Lieutenants Mitchell Roberts, Richard Greenaway, Martin Bennett, and William Hotham, destroyed a two-gun battery at Omago, on the coast of Istria, and brought out four vessels loaded with wine, which had been scuttled near that town. About 100 French soldiers were at the same time driven from thence by the marines of the two ships, under Captain John Hore Graham and Lieutenant Samuel Lloyd. Only one man was wounded in the execution of this service, “and the conduct of all the officers was highly creditable.” ”

“ Having now possession of the Schanza, which commanded the castle and the windmill hill, we set to work upon some advanced batteries within 400 yards of the castle; but the weather was so wet, and the labour so great, that they wore not complete until the morning of the 29th, when the enemy acceded to our altered propositions for surrendering the castle. ”