1895.] dbJ [Frazer. 



Consul took his son to Malta where the latter joined the Fairfield as has 

 been stated. 



Edward entered the Naval School, then first established at Annapolis, 

 November 12, 1845, and studied for a year, but upon the declaration of 

 war against Mexico he was among the midshipmen who volunteered for 

 /service in that war. 



To his great disappointment, however, after being promised orders to 

 the "first ship going to the seat of war," he was ordered to the African 

 coast, where he spent two years ; returning to the Naval Academy Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1848. Mrs. Moore has in her possession a MS. diary with many 

 illustrations which he kept during this cruise. In July of that year he 

 left the school, and after a short period of "waiting orders," began the 

 real responsibility of a professional career on the frigate Constitution, 

 which was ordered to the Mediterranean. While there his father, Daniel 

 Smith McCauley, still Consul at Tripoli, was transferred to Alexandria, 

 Egypt, as U. S. Consul General by orders from the U. S. Department 

 of State dated August 14, 1848, the frigate Constitution conveying him 

 and his family with their eS'ects to his new post. On the day of the 

 arrival of the frigate at Alexandria a boy was born to the Consul General, 

 who, esteeming it a happy omen that a son of his should first see the light 

 OQ a vessel so identified with the naval history of his family, named the 

 child " Constitution Stewart McCauley." 



Edward was warranted a passed midshipman to date from August 10, 

 1847, on September 39, 1849. 



The transcript of his orders, obtained from the Navy Department, and in 

 serted in another place, will indicate the charges given to him succesively. 

 It is only possible to touch upon those which were of most importance. 



Passed midsliipman McCauley was ordered to the Powhatan, Com- 

 modore Perry's flag ship, which sailed from Norfolk, November 24, 1853, 

 on the expedition to Japan. 



The results of this expedition are sufficiently flimiliar to all Americans 

 to render unnecessary any allusion to them in this place. McCauley was 

 twenty-five years old, and this was his first expedition out of the ordinary 

 routine. He had been familiar with the beauty and opulence of the sea- 

 ports of that enchanting region where Asia, Africa and Europe unite ; he 

 was versed in the etiquette of the most civilized nations on that delicate 

 field of diplomacy where a blunder serves as a pretext and often involves 

 the most serious consequences ; he was acquainted with the civiliza- 

 tion of the Arab and the Persian, and their smiling aversion to the 

 Caucasian ; their aims and their creeds had been McCauley's study. 

 But he was now, in the train of one of the New World's most dis- 

 tinguished war chiefs, to enter another and heretofore almost entirely 

 unknown world, whose religion, philosophy, manners and resources 

 were as dimly understood by the remainder of the world as if they per- 

 tained to the inhabitants of another planet. To such a character as 

 that of the young midshipman this novelty was an inspiration, and the 



