The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR

ASHLEY MAUDE.

The Hon. James Aihley Maude, whose death we an-
nounced yesterday, was the third son of Cornwallis,
second Viscount Hawarden, an Irish Peer, by his third
wife, Anne Elizabeth. Stanley, sister to the first Viscount
Monck. His ancestor, Christopher Maude, a Member
of the Irish House of Commons, emigrated from York-
shire, and settled at Hawarden, in the county of Tippe-
rary, about the year 1639.
Captain Maude was born Nov. 6, 1786 ; made a Lieu-
tenant 1805 ; and appointed to the Ville de Paris, of
110 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, on the
Mediterranean station, in the spring of 1809.
His spirited conduct while serving as a volunteer at the
capture and destruction of a French convoy in the bay
of Rosas, on which occasion he was slightly wounded,
was highly spoken of by Lord Collingwood, the Com-
mander-in-Chief on the occasion. " Many officers in
the fleet," writes his Lordship to the Admiralty, " were
desirous of being volunteers in this service. I could not
resist the earnest request of Lieutenants Lord Viscount
Balgonie, the Hon. James Ashley Maude, and the Hon.
Wm. Waldegrave, of the Vile do Paris, to have the
command of the boats, in which they displayed that
spirit which is inherent in them."

Captain Maude's commission as a Conimander bore date
Oct. 22, 1810 ; and he was appointed, on tilt. 15th of
February 1812, to the Nemesis, 28, armee en flute, in
which ship we find him very actively employed on the
coast of America, until his promotion to Post rank,
March 11, 1814. He next obtained the command of the
Favourite, 20, and in her brought home the ratification,
by the President and Senate of the United States, of the
treaty of peace, concluded at Ghent, between Great Bri-
tain and America, with which lie arrived at the Foreign-
office, March 13, 1815. He was subsequently employed
on the ELIA India station.

Captain Maude's last appointment was in Feb. 9, 1825,
to the Glasgow, 50, in which frigate he conveyed Lord
Straugford to Cronstadt, and afterwards proceeded to the
Mediterranean. The Glasgow was one of the British
squadron, at the battle of Navarino, Oct. 20, 1827.
In consequence of the bravery displayed by the sub-
ject of this memoir on the occasion, he was nominated a
C.B. on his return home, which took place in Aug. 28,
1828, at which time he was also created a Companion of
the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. The
insignias of the French and Russian Orders also, invest-

inn him with the title of a Knight of the French and
Russian Orders of St. Louis and St. Anne, were sent to
him by those Powers shortly after.

MRS. ANSON'S PAINTINGS ON

SATIN.

We yesterday visited the establishment of Mr. Morant,
the upholsterer and house decorator in New Bond-street,
where we suw some exquisite specimens 'of flower paint-
ing on satin, from the pencil of Mrs. Anson. They con-
sist of a coverlid for an infant's cot, work bags, &c., and
as finished works of art are of a very high order. There
is a freshness and a vraisemblance about the flowers,
which give- them the appearance of having been just
plucked from the hot-house, and it is not merely as an
artist that Mrs. Anson is entitled to high praise—the
botanical character of the flowers is correctly preserved,
which proves that, in addition to taste and great powers
of execution, the artist also possesses considerable
scientific acquirements. These novel specimens of flower
painting, which, but for what we must consider a too
rigid adherence on the part of the Court authorities to
the strict rules of etiquette, would have been presented
to her Majesty, have excited a great sensation in the
fashionable and artistical world, and will probably lead
to the more general use of paintings on satin as articles
of decorative furniture.