by John Marshall

“ Sir,– I yesterday received your letter dated the 5th inst., in which you request of me to give you a certificate of my opinion of your conduct in command of the Barbara schooner, whilst under my orders in the Baltic, in 1813, or that I would represent to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty my opinion of you as an officer. ”

“ On the part of the assailants, one man belonging to each British vessel was slain: Lieutenant Morgan and two of his gallant crew were severely wounded.
Want of space prevents us from making particular mention of every service performed by the Barbara, whilst on the Baltic station, a period of nine months, during which she captured and destroyed no less than 2,544 tons of the enemy’s shipping, navigated by 136 seamen; and, in conjunction with the Hawke privateer, of Hastings, captured a Danish privateer, and retook a ship from under the batteries on Lessee island and the fire of ten gun-boats. ”

“ On his return from the Baltic, Lieutenant Morgan was ordered to Plymouth, on which station he continued until July 1814, when the deranged state of his affairs, occasioned by the failure of his prize-brokers at Gottenburg, obliged him most reluctantly to resign the command of the Barbara, in order, if possible, to obtain some kind of settlement. During the usurpation of Napoleon Buonaparte, in 1815, he commanded the Aggressor gun-brig, to which vessel he was appointed through the kind intervention of Sir George Hope ”