by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Watling… (1823)
“ In taking charge of the important despatches conveyed to India by the Egremont schooner, immediately after your escape from the disastrous result of the gallant but unsuccessful attack on the enemy’s frigates in Grande Port, you rendered essential service to these colonies and to your country; and your subsequent conduct has been marked with the same spirit of cheerful activity and zeal in the public cause. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Watling… (1823)
“ Permit me to recommend to your Excellency’s notice and consideration, Lieutenant Watling, late first of the Sirius, a most gallant, active, and enterprising officer, who is now in command of the Egremont schooner, purchased by this Government, and manned by a party of the Sirius’s late ship’s-company. The vessel is copper-fastened, sails remarkably well, and is in every respect one of the completest ever built. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Watling… (1823)
“ When sufficiently recovered to do so, he was sent for by Vice-Admiral Bertie, who, on the quarter-deck of the Africaine frigate, publicly informed him that he much regretted the slate of his health was reported by the medical men to be such as would preclude the possibility of his accompanying the forces, to whom his intimate knowledge of the coast about to be invaded might otherwise prove of great benefit; but that, on the surrender of the French colony, he would promote him to the command of a ship, in testimony of his meritorious conduct. ”
