by John Marshall

“ His conduct as commander of the Devastation bomb, employed in the defence of Cadiz, from Dec. 1809 until the raising of the siege of l’Isla-de-Leon, in 1811, was equally meritorious. During a great part of that time, his vessel was at anchor almost within point-blank range of the enemy’s formidable works ”

“ In the spring of 1814, he was tried by a court-martial at Portsmouth, on charges brought against him by the Admiralty, “in consequence of complaints having been made to the Board, that his treatment was such to the ship’s company as to keep them in a state bordering upon mutiny; refusing them, when in harbour, the usual indulgence of the service, and exercising towards them continual acts of severity and cruelty, such as starting the sick, and flogging persons in the sick list; also, failing in his duly when in pursuit of the American sloop Hornet, after the capture of the Peacock ”