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 THE 
 
 NAVAL ATALANTIS; 
 
 OR A DISPLAY OF THE 
 
 CHARACTERS 
 
 POST-CAPTAINS, 
 
 WHO SERVED PURING THE LAT^ WAR. 
 
 By NAUTICUS junior. 
 
 PART 11. 
 
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 JOHN Macbride, Efq. 
 M. P. page I 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave 7 
 John Gell, Efq. 1 1 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Longford 14 
 Robert Fanfliaw, Efq. M. P. 17 
 William Peere Williams, 
 
 Efq. 20 
 
 Evelyn Sutton, Efq. 2Z 
 
 Samuel Marfliall, Efq. a; 
 
 Sir Richard Pearfon, Knt. 29 
 John Colpoys, Efq. 3 1 
 
 Lord Robert Manners 33 
 
 Archibald Dickfon, Efq. 37 
 George Montagu, Efq. 40 
 Hon. George Keith Elphin- 
 
 ftone 42 
 
 Elliot Salter, Efq. 44 
 
 Hon. William Waldegrave 46 
 Thomas Pringle, Efq. 49 
 
 Hon. William Clement Finch5 1 
 Sir Roger Curtis, Knt. 54 
 
 Robert Mann, Efq. 59 
 
 John Bourmafter, Efq. > 61 
 Charles Hope, Efq. 64 
 
 George Keppel, Efq. 66 
 
 Hon. Thomas Windfor 69 
 Anthony James Pye Mol- 
 
 loy, Efq. 71 
 
 William Young, Efq. 76 
 
 Hon. Hugh Seymour Con- 
 way 78 
 George Anfon Byron, Efq. 8 r 
 Erafmus Gower, Efq. 88 
 John Holloway, Efq. 90 
 Hon. Thomas Pakcnham, 93 
 Right Hon. Lord Hervey 9^ 
 James Hawkins, Efq. 98 
 Right Hon. Lord Charles 
 
 Fitzgerald 100 
 
 John Willet Payne, Efq. 104 
 Hon. George Berkeley 106 
 John Inglefield Efq. 109 
 
 Hon. John Rodney 1 1 r 
 
 Henry Trollope, Efq. 113 
 Thomas Bofton, Efq. 116 
 
 Edw. Thornbrough, Efq. 1 18 
 George Campbell, Efq. 1 20 
 Hon. Michael de Courcy 12a 
 William Bentinck, Efq. 124 
 
 Kl* The above Officers are placed according to their Se- 
 
 niority. 
 
 301083
 
 DEDICATION, 
 
 BY PERMISSION, 
 TO HIS EXCELLENCY 
 
 LORD MA. L ME S BURY, 
 
 KNIGHT OF THE BATH, 
 
 Ambaffador Extra, and Minifler Plenipotentiary, to 
 
 the United Provinces of Holland, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 My Lord, 
 T T is with inconceivable fatisfac- 
 
 tion that I dedicate this work to 
 
 your Excellency, as a Nobleman 
 
 A 2 whofe
 
 ( iv ) 
 
 . whofe fplendid talents and unre- 
 mitted attention to the honour of 
 the illuftriousHoufes of Brunfwick, 
 Brandenburgh, and Naflau, tended 
 fo very eflentially to humble the 
 ambition of the Bourbon race, and 
 to avert from this country the hor- 
 rors of war ! 
 
 The illuftrious Houfes above al- 
 luded to, having permitted your 
 Excellency to quarter their arms 
 with yours, is a more ftriking proof 
 of your Excellency's tranfcendent 
 merit than any thing my humble 
 pen can convey. 
 
 The
 
 < V ) 
 
 The firft part of my Naval Ata- 
 I'antis was dedicated to a Prince 
 diftinguiflied not only for his il-* 
 lullrious birth, but iHll more fo on 
 account of his having fo glorioufly 
 devoted the prime of his life to a 
 fervice, upon which depends the 
 fecurity of Great Britain with her 
 dependencies, and the real honour 
 of the Bfitilh Empire ! 
 
 This dedication, my Lord, comes 
 as a grateful tribute from the heart ; 
 and I fliall confider it the greateft 
 pride of my life to have been ho- 
 noured^with your Excellency's per- 
 miffion to transfer the fignature 
 
 of
 
 ( vl ) 
 
 of Nauticus Junior, to the teal 
 one of 
 
 Your Excellency'^ 
 
 Moft devoted, 
 
 faithful, and 
 Moft obedient ferv^ant, 
 
 JOSEPH HARRIS. 
 
 PRE-
 
 P R E I!' A C E. 
 
 TT has been the Author's inten- 
 * tion for fome time paft, to bring 
 forward the chara^ers of the Poft- 
 Captains in the. Royal Navy, be- 
 ginning at the head of the lift ; buf 
 not having yet been enabled to 
 obtain a fufficient knowledge of the 
 fervices of many of the older Offi- 
 cers, and wifliing to preferve the 
 line of feniority, he has thought 
 proper to commence the sd Part 
 of the Naval Atalantis with the 
 character of Captain Machride-^^ 
 the friend and Champion of the 
 Navy in the Britjlh Parliament! 
 
 "The Author has only farther to 
 
 ad4, that as the prefent ftate of 
 
 public affairs folely occupies the 
 
 2 minds
 
 ( vlU ) 
 
 minds of every one, he finds it dif- 
 ficult to collect fufEcient materiaU 
 for completing the Characters of 
 the Officers fenior to Captain Mac-' 
 bride, or of fuch as are unavoidably 
 omitted between that gentleman 
 and Captain Bentinck. He will moil 
 thankfully receive, and moft faith-^ 
 fully attend to, any authentic par-- 
 ticulars of the fervices of the Offi- 
 cers fo omitted, if fent to him, free 
 &f es^pemcy and addrefled, under co- 
 ver, to Nauticus Junior, at Mr. 
 Ridgway's, Bookfeller, York Streetj^ 
 St. James's Square. 
 
 N. B. Should any gentleman be pleafed to 
 point out any ei^rors that may appear in this 
 work, they fhall be correled in a fecond 
 Edition, by directing as above, where the 
 iirft Part, containing the Chara<^ers of the 
 Flag Officers, is to be purchafed.
 
 i^MMMMlM 
 
 THE 
 
 NAVAL ATALANTIS. 
 
 CAPTAIN MACBRIDE. 
 
 O O various and (ingular have been the fer- 
 ^ vices of this gallant officer, that I am 
 at a lofs whether to dwell rnofl: upon his Ikill 
 in nautical fcience, or upon that enterpri- 
 fing fpirit which has marked his profefiional 
 conduct through life. 
 
 Captain Macbride is a native of Ireland, 
 and entered very early in the naval fervice, 
 for which he has (hewn a conftant attach-* 
 ment. 
 
 The firfl dawn of his riling fame, refledls 
 very great credit on him it was the follow- 
 ing brave adion ; 
 
 B When
 
 ( ^ ) 
 
 When a Lieutenant, he commanded one 
 of his Majefty's cutters, ftationed to cruize 
 off the coafts of France, and at that period 
 determined upon the dangerous tafk of cut- 
 ting fome fhips out of one of the French 
 harbours. For this purpofe, having previ- 
 oufly caufed the oars to be muffled, he with 
 a chofen boat's crew actually rowed in, and 
 brought out three of the {hips from under 
 the very muzzles of the guns of the French 
 batteries. For this gallant fervice, he was 
 very juftly promoted to the rank of Mafter 
 and Commander, and foon after, to that of 
 Poft Captain in the Royal Navy. 
 
 On the unhappy occaiion of a frigate being 
 difpatched to Denmark, in order to conduit 
 the late unfortunatd^^^tiueen from that king- 
 dom, to the place allotted for her Majefty's 
 retirement in Hanover; Captain Macbride 
 was the officer made choice of for that im- 
 portant fervice, and by his fpirited condut 
 evinced how worthy he was of the fiicred 
 truft committed to his charge. He refo- 
 lutely demanded from the guns of the caftle 
 
 of
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 t)f Elfineur (where this fallen Queen had 
 been confined) that refpel to the Sifter of 
 his Sovereign, which the vile machinations 
 of the Danifh court would have other wife 
 withheld from her ; and the grateful Queen 
 fhed tears when the gallant protector of her 
 rank and honor gave up his Royal charge. 
 
 Throughout the whole of the late war, 
 we find the name of Macbride on every 
 important occafion. 
 
 During the time he commanded the Bien- 
 faifant of 64 guns, he captured the Artois, 
 a French man of war, which would other- 
 wife have committed great depredations on 
 the coaft of Ireland. 
 
 Captain Macbride's condufl in the alion 
 between Lord Rodney'i^fquadron and that 
 of Don Juan de Langara, was very highly 
 extolled : fome officers have gone fo far as 
 to fay, that the Spanifh Admiral's fhip ftruck 
 her colours while receiving a broadiide from 
 the Bienfaifant. There are many opinions, 
 however, on that fubje^Sl. 
 
 B 2 Defirous
 
 (45 
 
 Deft roll s of a fhip of more ative fefvice 
 than one of the hne. Captain Macbride ob- 
 tained the command of the Artois frigate, 
 which he had captured, and cruifing with 
 her in the North Seas, he fortunately fell in 
 with, engaged J and took two Dutch privateers, 
 which were deemed of fufEcient force to be 
 commiffioned as floops of war ; and are now 
 Galled the Pvlades and Oreftes, in allufion 
 to their having been commanded by two 
 brothers when captured. 
 
 The official accounts which the gallant 
 Captain gave of this capture to the Secre- 
 tary of the Admiralty, has been by fome 
 perfons thought improperly ludicrous, " he 
 *' winged the gentry^'' but when his conduct 
 m every other refpedt is conlidered ; it would 
 furely be thought hard, to deny him the 
 fatisfalion of entertaining himfelf, in the 
 hour of victory, with comparifons analagous 
 to his favourite delight. * 
 
 At that critical 2era of the late war, when 
 this devoted country found itfelf encircled 
 
 by 
 
 * Cock fighting.
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 by increafing foes, it unfortunately happen- 
 ed that feamen could not be found, fufficient: 
 to man the fhips of war equipped for its de- 
 fence. 
 
 Upon this occafion Captain Macbride of- 
 fered his affiflance towards railing 20,000 
 volunteers in Ireland, for the fervice of the 
 fleet, and no officer ever conducted a bu- 
 finefs of the kind with greater fpirit than he 
 did. 
 
 It could not be laid to his charge if thele 
 men, brought, as it wxre, from the w^ilds and 
 gaols of Ireland, proved the original inftiga- 
 torsofthofe mutinies ; which, after their intro- 
 duction, grew to fuch an alarming height in 
 the fleet, as to threaten a total annihilation 
 of all naval difcipline. 
 
 Not lefs a champion in the field of Venus 
 than in that of Mars, the gallant Captain 
 was ahvays a welcome guefl where beauty 
 held its court, generally carrying his con- 
 quers with equal fuccefs in either field. 
 
 At the conclufion of the late war, the 
 
 fi'eemcn of Plymouth, in teftimony of 
 
 B 3 ' their
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 their approbation of his public fervices, 
 eledled him one of their reprefentatives to 
 ferve in ParHament, and his conduct as a 
 fenator has fully proved him to be a true 
 friend to the Britifh conftitution. 
 
 Let us trace back a few of his Parlia- 
 mentary actions. In the firft place he hu-^ 
 manely brought in a bill for the relief of 
 the widows of warrant officers in the 
 navy, which was paffed into a law ; as 
 was alfo his motion for reflriding Cap- 
 tains in the Royal Navy, with reipe6l to 
 their holding civil appointments. 
 
 His glorious ftand againft the infamous 
 fortification projedl is fully on record ; and 
 his recent oppofition to the unprecedented 
 fatal meafure, of paffing over and degra,- 
 ding officers who were entitled to the ho- 
 nor of a flag fi^om their fervices ; as well 
 in the laft as in many former \vars, en- 
 titles this patriotic fenator to the blellings 
 and eternal gratitude of the Britifh Navy* 
 NATICUS JUNIOR, 
 
 J-ORB
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 LORD MULGRAVE 
 
 TS confidered by people in general, as 
 " ibmething of the amphibious kind, naval 
 yet military, proud yet humble, referved 
 though open, an enemy and yet a friend. 
 
 In order to reconcile thefe feeming con- 
 tradidions, it will be neceflary to enter firfl 
 into his Lordihip's naval character, which 
 it muft be confefled ftands unimpcached, 
 few officers of his profeffion having conduc- 
 ted themfelves with a greater degree of judge- 
 ment, prudence, and bravery than he has done. 
 
 His Lordfhip's attempt to explore the 
 dangerous frozen feas, refleds very great 
 credit on his patriotic endeavours for the 
 welfare of his country at large ; and the of^ 
 ficers and feamen of the Weftern fquadron 
 that ferved during the late war, fpeak amply 
 in his pra^fe. 
 
 One reference alone will (hew how far 
 
 his I^rdihip may be called military ; the 
 
 B 4 i-egorda
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 records of Parliament ; where it will appear, 
 that he has negatived all great queftions 
 that could favour the navy, and has uni- 
 formly (a term not very applicable to the 
 noble Lord's general mode of ading) given 
 his vote for the augmentation of the army. 
 
 That his Lordfhip is proud^ the officers of 
 the (hip he commanded (the Courageux) 
 can atteft ; and that he is humble^ it is un- 
 necelTary to go farther then 'Downing ftrect 
 for proofs ! 
 
 In parliamentary debate a kind of referve 
 clouds his Lordfhip's brow, when the Mi- 
 nifter keeps him in ignorance of what he 
 would willingly afFel a knowledge of but 
 when he is told to " let loofe the dogs of 
 war," he is the firft to open^ that the world 
 may judge he takes a leading part in great 
 affairs. 
 
 That his Lordfhip can be an enemy ^ it need 
 
 fjnly be aiked how often he has d-cferted thofe 
 
 friends who placed him in power; and it 
 
 muft not be wondered at, if a new admini- 
 
 I ft ration
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 ftration were to receive a tender of his Lord* 
 {Kv^\ friendjhip I " Such Things Are !' 
 
 The noble Lord has, no doubt, always 
 afled from Jirong conviction and a defire to 
 ferve his country; but had his Lordfhip 
 made choice of his office of treafurer of the 
 navy, inftead of that of the army, how of- 
 ten might he have pleafed himfelf with the 
 charming idea of having fliowered a6ls of 
 benevolence on the brave tars, with whom 
 he has been proud to ferve, and who have 
 affiflied in raifing- him to the rank he now 
 holds in the navy ! 
 
 Inflead of which, a Scottifh lawyer, who 
 never ferved either in the army or the navy, 
 holds the treafurerfliip of the latter, while 
 officers who have ferved faithfully in the 
 Britlfh fleets, are lately degraded and 
 difhonored, and left to lament in folitude 
 and forrow, the few remaining years of a life, 
 fpent honorably in the feryice of their coun- 
 
 Digref-
 
 { lO ) 
 
 Digreffions are Sometimes neceflary . 
 thele come from the heart, and I fincere^ 
 }y hoped. Lord Mulgrave's future condu6t 
 Avill reftore him to the good opinion of the 
 officer^ of the Britifh fleet, 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 ( IJ ) 
 
 eAPTAIN JOHN CELL 
 
 "DEARS an tiniverfal good character 
 '^ throughout the navy, in which he has 
 ferved with the highefl reputation, for many 
 years, in every quarter of the globe. 
 
 When a Lieutenant, he was employed in 
 the Guernfey under Captain (now Vice Ad- 
 miral) Milbanke, Rationed at -Gibraltar, in 
 order to cruize in the feas adjacent thereto. 
 
 Having ferved the ufual period, confor- 
 mable to the cuftomary rputine, he returned 
 to England, and foon obtained the rank due 
 to his merits and fervices. 
 
 At the beginning of the late war. Captain 
 Gell was appointed to the command of the 
 Thetis frigate, and ordered immediately on 
 foreign fervice, firft to Gibraltar, and afterr 
 wards to America and the Weft Indies, 
 where he continued, until ordered home. 
 
 There is an honeft bluntnefs in the manner 
 pf this rneritorious officer, which on forne 
 
 pccafioi\,
 
 ( I^ ) 
 
 occadon gave offence to the Earl of Sandwich, 
 and caufed a coohiefs between his Lordihip 
 and him ; in confequence of which he re- 
 mained out of employment fome time. 
 
 Tliis inalive ftate, his feelings could not 
 brook, and matters being accommodated 
 through the medium of friends with the 
 jRrfl Lord of the Admiralty, Captain Gell 
 was appointed to the command of His Ma- 
 jefty's (hip the Monarca of 80 guns, (a fhip 
 that had been captured from the Spaniards) 
 in which he failed, agreeable to his orders, 
 for the Eaft Indies, and on arriving there put 
 himielf under the command of Vice Admi- 
 ral Sir Edward Hughes, K. B. 
 
 With an unweildy fhip, badly manned 
 and but poorly equipped. Captain Gell per- 
 formed wonders. 
 
 The Monarca fuftained the hotteft part 
 of the Several actions that were fought, be- 
 tween the Britiih and French fquadrons in 
 the Eaft Indies. 
 
 Thefe engagements were always bloody,, 
 but never decilive : the Monarca fuftered 
 
 greatly
 
 ( ^3 ) 
 
 c-reatly in every one of them, and Admiral 
 Huo-hes's public difpatches are the beft proofs, 
 of the honorable and gallant part Captaia 
 Gell performed in thefe defperate combats, 
 which were the laft of his naval atchieve- 
 ments during the late war. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 LORD
 
 ( u ) 
 
 LORD LONGFORD 
 
 TV /T AY very juflly be denominated a fleady, 
 brave, and fcicntific officer. The whole 
 line of his Lordfhip's profeffional condu6lhas 
 beefli invariably upright, judicious, and con- 
 fident throughout every ftage of his nauti- 
 cal progrefs, which has been perfe6lly regu- 
 lar and independent, notwithftanding his 
 great family connections. 
 
 Upon every occaiion of fervice, this noble 
 and gallant officer has inftantly given up th& 
 fweets of that retreat which he poflefl'es in 
 the fifter kingdom, and tendered his duty to 
 the Board of Admiralty. 
 
 On the late war breaking out with France, 
 his Lordfhip immediately repaired to Lon- 
 don, and was forthwith appointed to the 
 command of His Majefly's ffiip the Alex-^ 
 ander of 74 guns. 
 
 When cruizing with the grand fleet in the 
 Bay, they fell in with two French frigates. 
 
 The
 
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 The Alexander gave chace and foon came 
 
 up with one of them. The noble Lord 
 
 hailed to knowVhat fhip it was, and while 
 
 he had his trumpet at his mouth, the French 
 
 frigate had the audacity, on ftriking her co- /^v^^i a<^ 
 
 lours to pour her whole broadlide into the /t*^ ^*^ mI 
 
 Alexander, by which feveral men were kil- ^ <^ ^v-^/^cv 
 
 led and his Lordfhip narrowly efcaped. 
 
 The French Captain by this infamous i 
 
 behaviour ran the rilk [of having his fhip ' ] 
 
 funk and all his men innocently, nay wan- 
 tonly facrificed ; for if his Lordfliip had not 
 pofleffed the greateft humanity, and a mind I 
 
 endued with univerfal benevolence ; he 
 would certainly, in the firft emotion of his 
 paffion, have returned the enemy's broad- 
 fide, which muft have been fatal, owing to 
 the fuperior weight of metal and greater 
 number of guns which a fhip of the line 1 
 
 carries above a frigate. ' 
 
 On the French Captain's going on board ' 
 
 the Alexander to deliver up his fword, the ! 
 
 noble Lord demanded how he dared to aft j 
 
 in {q rafh a manner : he replied, *' It was \ 
 
 " fbr :j
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 *' for the honor of the French flag," and 
 conceived he had do^e his duty by difchar- 
 ging his o;uns. 
 
 Nothing more worth reciting can be faid 
 of his Lordfhip, except that he continued in 
 the Alexander till his fervices were no lon- 
 ger required. 
 
 Lord Longford is a Peer of the kingdom 
 of Ireland, in which character, he has on 
 many occalions difplayed great powers of 
 oratory and Parliamentary information. 
 
 On the death of his niother, who is Coun- 
 tefs of Longford in her own right, the noble 
 Lord will fucceed to the Earldom. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 ( ^7 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN ROBERT 
 FANSHAW 
 
 TS one of the ablefl officers the Britifh fleet 
 *- can'boaft cool, collefted, brave and ac- 
 tive. Ever ready for fervice when called 
 upon, and rigidly attentive to the mofl tri- 
 vial as well as the more important duties of 
 his flation. It may with truth be obferv^ed 
 of him, that his fhip is like his manfion 
 the fhip*s company, his family. The for- 
 mer in a conftant ftate of regularity and neat- 
 nefs, the latter governed by a rigid, butajuft 
 hand. A fcrupulous obferver of the relative 
 duties he owes his country, as a citizen and 
 a foldicr, Captain Fanfhaw exa6ts a like con- 
 duct on the part of all with whom he may 
 have any concern, whether civil or mih- 
 tary. 
 
 The condud of this oraliant officer throu2;h- 
 
 out the whole of the late war is. fpoken of in 
 
 C terms
 
 ( i8 ) 
 
 terms of infinite praife. On the coaft ot 
 America he was ever moft alive and dili- 
 gent. In the Weft Indies, his condu(5t as 
 Commander of His Majefty's fhip Mon- 
 mouth, in the engagement between the 
 fleets of Admiral Byron and Compte d'Ef- 
 taing, was truly gallant, nor was it lefs fo in 
 the Egmont, which he afterwards com- 
 manded. 
 
 When Sir George (now Lord) Rodney 
 was about to fail from Plymouth, with a 
 fquadrqn for the Weft Indies, the Com- 
 mander of the Namur of 90 guns, having 
 delired to be fuperfeded, Captain Fanftiaw, 
 who then lived at that port with his family 
 and was out of employ, being fent to, at the 
 dead of night, to fill up the vacancy, he im- 
 mediately arofe, and having arranged his 
 family affairs embarked on board the Namur 
 without delay, and proved one of Admiral 
 Rodney's moft dlftinguifhed fupporters on 
 the glorious 'i 2th of April. 
 
 At the late eledlion for Plymouth, the 
 freemen of that borough (of which Cap- 
 tain
 
 ( '9 ) 
 
 tain Fanfhaw is one) unanimoufly made 
 choice of this brave Veteran to ferve as one 
 of their reprefentatives in Parliament. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 C 2 CAPTAIN
 
 ( ^o ) 
 
 CAPTAIN WILLIAM PEERE 
 
 WILLIAMS. .yr 
 
 T T A S fb fully eftabliflied his profcffioii^J., 
 character, by the fuperlatively gallant 
 adlion he fought in the Flora frigate, laft war* ; 
 with a French frigate of fuperior forc^ 
 which he captured after a moft defper^^g,i 
 combat of fome hours, that nothing CQ,gi[qj^i 
 can poffibly be faid to add to the fame of ^ 
 this gallant officer. ^^^^ '^-.^ ^^^^. 
 
 This ation has been fo highly recorded, 
 as well in the Britim dominions as in thpfe . 
 of foreign ftates, that it would prove a kind 
 of fecond hand compliment to Captain Wil- 
 liams's merit, to fuppofe the recital of it 
 would be new to the public. 
 
 Among all the officers in the Brkifli 
 Navy, few, if any, can be found more dc- 
 ferving of general praife either in public or 
 in private life. Through every ftage offer- 
 vice, Captain Williams has fo conducted 
 
 him-
 
 (21 ; 
 
 himfelf, as tQ acquire the efteem and admi- 
 ration of every Commander under whom 
 he ferved, and to gain the hearts of all the 
 officers and feamen who ferved under him. 
 
 Many perfons have aiked what honor, 
 what reward was conferred on this.defer- 
 ving officer for his gallant behavior ? The 
 former he had a right to exped:, efpecially 
 while honors were fo bountifully fcattered 
 about the Court on lefs meritorious obje(ls ; 
 however, as Captain Williams is heir to an 
 hereditary title, that idea, added to the plea- 
 fing contemplation of having ferved his 
 country with real honor, will no doubt af- 
 ford him equal fatisfa6;io^ in his happy re- 
 tirement. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 C 3 CAPTAIN
 
 ( " ) 
 
 CAPTAIN EVELYN 
 SUTTON. 
 
 nPHIS perfecuted officefls a ftrikingin- 
 fiance of the weaknefs of an indivi- 
 dual when oppofed to the dominion of ar- 
 bitrary power ; of which iilor^ will be faid 
 hereafter. 
 
 It is notorious that he paffed through the 
 line of his profeffion without a bleinifh on 
 his character, until he was charged with 
 having fuffered a Dutch man of war to pafs 
 him when he might have brought her to 
 aftion, and would in all probability have 
 captured her. Of this charge he was, how- 
 ever, moft honorably acquitted. 
 
 During a part of the late war, Captain 
 Sutton commanded the Proferpine frigate 
 with fo much credit to himfelf, that he was 
 afterwards appointed to the command of His 
 Majefty's (hip Ilis of 50 ^uns.
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 It was his evil defliny that the Ifis made 
 one of the fquadron which was fent upon an 
 expedition againft the Cape of Good Hope, 
 under the inaufpicious command of the 
 late Commodore, or more properly fpeak 
 ing, Governor Johnftone. 
 . Fa^ from wifhing to difturb the afhes of 
 the dead, it is only with the view of refcu- 
 ing a deferving character from the fligma, 
 under which it has fo long laboured, in the 
 minds of perfons unacquainted with naval 
 dyty, that a name which was fo thoroughly 
 obnoxious to the Britifh fleet is brought for- 
 ward. 
 
 Every intelligent man knoW^s that on the 
 arrival of the abovementioned fquadron in 
 the road of Porta Pray a, the Portugueze 
 Governor of the ifland of Janeiro immedi- 
 ately informed Commodore Johnftone, that 
 he had received orders from his Court to pro- 
 vide necellary refreshments for a French 
 fquadron which might be hourly expeded. 
 
 Inftead of availing himfelf of this impor- 
 tant intelligence, the Britifh Commander 
 C4 did
 
 ( 24 ) 
 
 yiltn ;4find fcluO/fl iu^rUrP .t.*;/..^;^ , . 
 
 did not even make any preparation for derenCeT * 
 iq.,p^fe of a fudden attack. On the contra-^- 
 ry, he anchored his own fliip, the Romney^,* ^ 
 as. w^ll as the frigates, within the EafI: Indl^- 
 men, and left the Ifis alone as a kind of pi- 
 quet guard ; fo very uncoUeded was he, th^ 
 he had not ev^en the prefence of mind to dii^ ' 
 patch a fingle frigate on the look out; 
 
 As he might have imagined;- ftP^Jthap- 
 pcnecl. The French fquadron caf^upon 
 him fuddenly and flood directly ihcd the 
 Bay^ in the moil gallant manner, pouring 
 their broadlides into the Ifis, which kept up 
 fuch an inceflant fire, that the Commodore 
 himfelf was the firfl to laviih his praifes on 
 her Commander. ^^^n^^i;; 
 
 Would any one then liave fuppofed it 
 poflible, that Commodore Johnftone Ihould 
 put Captain Sutton under an arrefl ; fuper- 
 {tae him in the command of his mip ; and 
 have the cruelty to fend him, as far as the 
 Eafl Indies,' a prifoner in that fhip he had fo 
 gallantly defended. Such condul could 
 only originate from the Commodore's own 
 
 fears,
 
 ( ^5 ) 
 
 fears, left Captain Sutton fliould bring him 
 txx i-^^rCoiwi:, Martial for his un-officer-like 
 conduct in expofing the Indiamen to the 
 enemy's fire. 
 
 On Captain Sutton's return to England 
 he was tried by ^ Court Martial, and mojl 
 honorably acquitted. 
 
 The diftrefs of mind and bodily infirmi- 
 tids which this officer had undergone for fb 
 long a time, led him naturally to commence 
 an' a<9ion againft his perfecutor, in the event 
 G^'which he was adjudged damages, propor- 
 tioned jto the glaring magnitude of the. de- 
 fendant's offence ; but Commodore John- 
 ftone had been fo long pra^lifed in the laby- 
 rinths and chicaneries of law, that he appeal- 
 ed to other Courts, and lived juft long 
 5ciiough to know, that he had another crime 
 to anfwer for, before that awful tribunal 
 where the guilty cannot triumph. How 
 will nations yet unborn be brought to be- 
 lieve that this injured officer was at laft non- 
 fuitedl .^^ l^ell it not in Gath\, nor let it be 
 
 heard in thejireets of AJcalon /" 
 
 Cap- 
 
 It^
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 Captain Sutton is a branch of the illuftri- 
 cushoufe of Rutland, and it is hoped will 
 have fome future opportunity of fhewing 
 that he is not unworthy of his noble de- 
 fcent, 
 
 NAUTIClf^ yifWlOR, 
 
 CAPT.
 
 ( V > 
 
 CAPT. SAMUEL MARSHALL 
 
 T S the officer who flruck the firft blow 
 -^^ laft war as Commander of the Arethufa 
 /rigate, which engaged the moft Chriftian 
 King's fhip la Belle Poule, and thereby 
 brought on a commencement of general 
 hoftilities between Great Britain and France. 
 
 Captain Marfhall is defervedly efteemed 
 a very excellent officer and an experienced 
 feaman. He ferved throughout the war 
 wath great credit and reputation, firft in the 
 Arethufa, which was flationed as a channel 
 cruizer, and afterwards in another frigate on 
 the Weft India ftation. 
 
 On his return from the Weft Indies, he 
 retired from fervice, it is faid on account 
 of his health being impaired, and was not 
 employed again till feme time after the efta- 
 blifhment of peace had taken place. He 
 tvas then appointed to the command of Hi^ 
 2; Ma-!
 
 ( *8 ) 
 
 Majcfty's fhip le Pegafe, a guard fhip at 
 Portfmouth. 
 
 A vacancy for t comniimoiier of the vic-^^ 
 tualling office having happened, and it be- 
 ing a rule that one of them fhould be an ox-" 
 perienced Captain in the navy, this officer 
 gave up the command of the Pegafe, and 
 fucceeded to the vacancy at the victualling I" 
 boatd, where his abilities and integrity muir 
 render him every w^ay qualified to fill the ]. 
 office with credit to himfelf and to the ati-i^ 
 vantage of his country. '^^^^^ ""''' ^"^ 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNICta^flol 
 
 tno3 iba 3"v/ 
 
 'Gil J Ja^lb 
 
 a J iirjfj -jjLlI tUOi'u 
 
 '-- -- SIR''
 
 ( 29 ) 
 
 i5''>rri(}T04 
 
 SIR RICHARD PEARSON, KNT. 
 
 TTTA S firft brought forward to public 
 
 notice as commander of his Majefty's ^ 
 Ihip Serapis, when fhe and the Scarborough .,- 
 armed veffel fell in with and engaged th^^jy 
 fquadron under the command of the Re- . j 
 negado Paul Jones, who after a moil ,ob^ -,^ 
 ilii^ate and bloody conteft took the Serapis, 
 but the Baltic trade under the convoy hap- 
 pily efcaped. For this fervice Captain Pear- 
 fon received the honour of Knighthood. 
 
 Sir Richard's fervices before that period 
 were not confidered of any great confe- 
 quence. He commanded the Garland fri- 
 gate on the North American Nation, and 
 was, it is faid, rather fuccefsful in his crui- 
 zes againft the American Privateers. He 
 was in general confidered more as an obe- 
 dient than as an ardent commander. Va- 
 rious have been the opinions which Naval 
 Officers have formed of his conduct with 
 refped to his action with Paul Jones, the 
 
 crew
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 Crew of whofe fhip le Bonne Homme Richard^ 
 confifted of people of all nations and defcrip- 
 tions, who were fo ungovernable and mu- 
 tinous that this marauding Pirate had an 
 armed guard of confiderable force, mbftly 
 French foldiers, always Rationed at his cabin 
 door, whilfl he flept, as a neceffary fecurity 
 for the fafety of his perfon againft the at- 
 tempts of this heterogeneous banditti. It alfo 
 appears that his ihip would have ftruck her 
 colours had thofe of the Serapis been kept fly- 
 ing two minutes longer* 
 
 Soon after this officer returned to England 
 he was appointed to the command of a large 
 new frigate fitted for channel fervice: but 
 from what caufe cannot be conjectured, 
 he appeared ever after his captivity, to be un- 
 der the unpleafant vifitation of a fort of laf- 
 fitvide, which feemed apparently to render 
 him in a great meafure loft to himfelf. It is 
 however to be hoped that laffitude was only 
 of a temporary" kind, and that he has recover- 
 ed his fpirits. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAP-
 
 ( 3' ) 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN COLPOYS, 
 
 T7ROM all his profeflional, as well as per- 
 ~,;^>:ibnal excellencies, flands juftly high in 
 tlv9^.,^mation of the world. The whole 
 N^vj pay tribute to his merits as an officer, 
 and are free to confefs Capt. Colpoys is one 
 of the brightell ftars that ever fhone in the 
 nautical hemifphere. 
 
 Ever fince he arrived at the rank of a 
 Captain, and even before, it has been his 
 pride, nay even his moft feduloijs car^, to 
 form the minds of the young midfhipmen^ 
 who were fortunate enough to walk his quar- 
 ter deck, not only to the moft flrict atten- 
 tion to their duty, but alfo to every mo- 
 ral virtue that could render them fit to adorn 
 the walks of civil life. 
 
 Brave and a(live to a degree, well verfed 
 in nautical fcience, prudent, Vv'ife and juft, 
 can it be wondered at, that Capt. Colpoys was 
 fconftantly employed during the late war, in 
 
 various
 
 ( r- ) 
 
 Various climes and in almoll every various 
 lervice ? 
 
 When Sir John Lockhart Rofs^s flag 
 was on board the unfortunate Royal George, 
 Capt. Colpoys commanded that fhip and gave 
 infinite fatisfadlion during the period of that 
 command to every officer and feamaii be- 
 longing to her. 
 
 To expatiate on his particular merits 
 would be an endlefs talk, it is fufficient to 
 fay, that he poflefles every qualification ne- 
 ceflary to form a diflinguifhed naval charac- 
 ter. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 THE
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 THE LATE 
 
 LORD ROBERT MANNERS. 
 
 TN forming this heroic nobleman, nature 
 combined every mental grace, with the 
 moft captivating elegance of perfon. Lau- 
 rels gathered round his ripening years fb 
 thick, that heaven itfelf was envious of his 
 worth, and fnatched him in early youth from, 
 the heights of this world's fame, to place 
 him on that immortal pinnacle of glory, 
 where God-like heroes only are enthroned ! 
 Lord Robert " inherited all his father's 
 *' virtues." He was the fecond fon of the 
 late Marquis of Granby and only brother to 
 the late Duke of Rutland. As foon as he 
 was capable of judging which line to purfue 
 in the career of military fame, he made choice 
 of the navy ; and fo great was his Lordfhip's 
 attachment to that profeffion, that inflead 
 of engaging in thofe fafhionable fcenes of 
 pleafure, for which he was fo eminently 
 D formed
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 formed by his birth, years, and accomplifh- 
 ments, he devoted all his time to nautical 
 ftudy and pradlical feamanfhip, in which 
 he excelled mofl of his youthful competitors. 
 
 At the commencement of the late war 
 this lamented hero ferved as a volunteer in 
 the Vidory with Admiral Keppel; and al- 
 though the fuccefs of the fleet did not equal 
 the fanguine expectations of the nation, Lord 
 Robert neverthelefs difplayed during that pe- 
 riod thofe promiling feeds of growing ardor, 
 which fo rapidly fhot up into maturity. 
 
 His Lor dlhip's further progrefsto the rank 
 of Poft-captain, and afterwards, was marked 
 with a thirft of fame and difregard of life, 
 which certainly accelerated the period of his" 
 days and laid him fo early in the bed of ho- 
 nour ; for during the action on the glorious 
 1 2th of April, in the Weft Indies (on which 
 occafion his Lordfhip received his death 
 wound when commanding the Refolution of 
 74 guns) fuch was his extraordinary regard 
 for the wounded feamenof his fhip's company 
 "W'ho all adored their gallant Captain, that 
 
 he
 
 he would not fufFer his own wounds to be 
 drefled until theirs had been under the fur- 
 geons hands ; by which amiable attention 
 (having then loft a leg and an arm) the Bri- 
 ti(h navy eventually fuftained an irieparable 
 lofs : he lived, however, to hear the fhouts of 
 vilory, and then, like the immortal Wolfe, 
 declared he fhould die contented. 
 
 Some flender hopes were entertained by 
 the Navy Phyfician and Surgeons of favdng 
 his life, provided he could be conveyed loon 
 to England ; for which purpofe his Lord- 
 fhip was removed, " with trembling care," 
 by his weeping crew on board the Andro- 
 mache frigate, commanded by his amiable 
 mnd gallant friend Captain Byron, who was 
 ordered home with the account of the defeat 
 of the French fleet. 
 
 Captain Byron's affiduous and humane at- 
 tention to his noble friend gave his Lordfhip 
 occafionally fuch fpirits, that he would hu- 
 moroufly {ay, if his relations did not pro- 
 vide for him when he arrived in England, he 
 fliould make a capital figure as a beggar in, 
 
 D 2 : , the
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 the ilreets of London, with a wooden leg, 
 crutches, &c. However in one fatal moment 
 on his paflage, his heroic foul took its flight 
 into eternity with that ferenity and refigna- 
 tion which the afflided Byron declared made 
 fuch a death truly enviable. 
 
 Thus Great Britain loft, in the bloom of 
 youth and fulnefs of glory, one of her 
 brighteft ornaments, whofe alions alone 
 are fufficient to perpetuate his memory ; a 
 grateful nation has neverthelefs thought fit 
 to ftrengthen the remembrance of his virtues 
 by a magnificent monument, which is now 
 erefting in Weftminfter Abby in honour of 
 his Lordfhip and the Captains Bayne and 
 Blair, who fell in the fame aftion. ^ 
 
 Let the young Patricians who thirft for 
 fame go imitate the God-like Manners I 
 *' Pour y farvenir.^^* 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * The motto of the Rutland family 
 
 CAP-
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD 
 DICKSON. 
 
 ^T^HE conftant fcenes of fervice in which 
 * this meritorious Officer was employed 
 throughout the late war, and his inflexible 
 adherence to the various duties of his pro- 
 feffion upon every occafion, entitle him to a 
 place of eminence among the other gallant 
 naval chara(Sters which it has been my lot to 
 pourtray. 
 
 When rebellion had reared its baneful 
 standard on the other fide the Atlantic, the 
 exertions of Captain Dickfon, in the Grey- 
 hound frigate, which he then commanded on 
 the coaft of North America, were produc- 
 tive of very happy events to the Royal caufe, 
 owing to the great number of fhips he had 
 the good fortune to capture. His gallant 
 behaviour at the deftrudtion of the Rebel 
 fleet at Penobfcott acquired him the fuUeft 
 D 3 thanks 
 
 301083
 
 ( 38 ) 
 
 thanks and approbation of the commander 
 in chief, and the general tenor of his conduct, 
 in thofefeas, ftamped his chaiadter with the 
 higheft marks of military fame. 
 
 On Captain Dickfon's return to Europe, 
 although afRi6led with a violent bilious com-r 
 plaint and other alarming fymptoms of de- 
 clining health, yet this circumflance by no 
 means abated his ardour for feryice, In this 
 ftate of infirmity he quitted the eafe and 
 comforts of domeftic life, and his favourite 
 villa in Hampfhire, to take upon hirn the 
 command of his Majefty's fhip Dublin, 
 then fitting out at Plymouth, to join the 
 Weftern fquadron, and in which fhip he fer^- 
 ved till the end of the war with his ufual 
 reputation. 
 
 There is an honeft, open candor, in the 
 difpofition of this deferving officer, which 
 commands refpel and efteem ; and few 
 men were ever more beloved by a fliip's 
 company, although an acknowledged Mar: 
 tinet, as a fort of pupil of Lord Howe. 
 
 Capt,
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 Captain Dickfon at this time commands 
 His Majefty's fhip Goliath, which is ftation- 
 ed as a guard fhip at Portfmouth. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 D 4 CAPT,
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE MONTAGU 
 
 ^^TEEDS no panegyrift. His adions, 
 like himfelf, have been ever generous, 
 brave, and praife worthy, and his profeffional 
 character free from any ftain. 
 
 The Italics introduced in the delineation 
 of the character of Capt. George Montagu 
 will be perfectly underftood by mofl of the 
 naval officers who ferved during the late war, 
 j^nd lamentable it is, that the allufion is not 
 lets juft than painful. 
 
 A youth on his firft entrance into military 
 life may be incapable of judging how far he 
 may be qualified to face the enemies of his 
 country ; but when an officer after attaining 
 the rank of Poft-captain knows or rather 
 feels himfelf alarmed at the fight of a white 
 flag, it would certainly be more honourable 
 to decline accepting of a charge fo very im- 
 portant as that of the command of a Britifh 
 Man of War ! A well founded Jllgma on a 
 I military
 
 ( 4t ) 
 
 military character is indelible, no time can 
 annihilate its fatal record. 
 
 Opt. George Montagu deferves every 
 praife that can poflibly be beftowed upon 
 him. His gallant behaviour in the Pearl 
 frigate laft war, when oppofed to the enemy, 
 has ftaniped his name with an eulogy far 
 beyond any thing that even a partial pen 
 could fay. He bravely combated a frigate 
 infinitely fuperior in every refpedl, but that 
 of difcipline, to the Pearl, and brought his 
 enemy triumphant into port. 
 
 Blefled with the advantages of youth, ex- 
 perience, and the true amor patri^, a dis- 
 tant view, a prophetic fomething feems to 
 mark out this gallant young officer, as a 
 charaler who may at fome future period 
 become a brilliant ornament to the Britilh 
 
 flag.* 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * Capt. Montagu is eldeft fon of the Admiral of 
 that name. 
 
 HON.
 
 ( 4i ) 
 
 HON. CAPT. GEORGE KEITH 
 ELPHINSTONE 
 
 T S an officer of very diflinguifhed merit, 
 r*: and formed, in every reipedl, to fupport 
 ^e. dignity of the Britifh flag. His fer vices, 
 prior to the late war, were not, however, of 
 that kind to make his name diflinguifhed as 
 iSE navul charaler, although his profeffional 
 .merits were always fully admitted. 
 
 Captain Elphinflone is an honour to the 
 noble and ancient flock from which he is 
 defcended, and in the charadler of a feaman 
 has greatly added to the numerous atchieve- 
 ments which are recorded of his family. 
 
 Without dwelling fuperfluouily on trifling 
 particulars, it may not be deemed improper 
 to allow Capt. Elphinftone all the anterior 
 merit tp which he i$ undoubtedly entitled, 
 and bring him at once to the command of 
 His Majefty's fhip Warwick of 50 guns. 
 
 When Admiral Digby was entrufted with 
 the chief command of His Majefiiy's fliips;
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 In North America, the Warwick made one 
 of his fleet. His Royal Highnefs Prince 
 William Henry was at that time unfortunate 
 enough to add to the confequences of this in- 
 active flag officer, by compofing a part of his 
 fuite. 
 
 The Prince feeling daily the indignities 
 offered him at New York, requefted per- 
 miffion to go to fea in order that he might 
 get practical experience, and added to this 
 reafonable requeft his wifhes to cruize in the 
 Warwick ; which Admiral Digby judged it 
 prudent to acquiefce in.* 
 
 Capt. Elphinftone is at this time fecretary^ 
 
 chamberlain, and keeper of the iignet in 
 
 Scotland, and as a profeffional man may 
 
 be very juftly efteemed an admirable naval 
 
 officer. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * ^. 1000 pe;- Annum for a miferable Table is no 
 |)ad thing. 
 
 CAP- 

 
 ( u ) 
 
 CAPTAIN ELLIOTT SALTER. 
 
 III fcilL 
 
 TT feems to be an evil concomitant on 
 naval officers in general, that they confi- 
 der a firft Lord of the Admiralty as a demi- 
 god, and bow at his lordly fhrine as a bigot 
 would ^ Ki^^vfgodeii image of his favourite 
 iaint. ' - r 
 
 Not fo, Captain Salter. 
 
 Iliis gallant officer, whofe ftrvices are 
 moft highly on record, has great credit for 
 enforcing not only good manners, but juftice, 
 from a (Quarter where fuch qualities it might 
 be fuppofed were not to be found, in a word, 
 from Earl Howe. 
 
 The noble peer had for a time indulged 
 the pleafurable fancy of being inaccefiible, 
 even to officers, who, though inferior in point 
 of rank, were fuperior to his lordfhip in 
 point of merit. 
 
 Captain Salter, however, with a firmnefs 
 which will ever refled honour on his cha- 
 racter.
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 .raler, told the noble Lord that if he did not 
 fee juftice done to his (hip's company relative 
 to their prize money, he would bring the 
 affair before Parliament. This jufl threat 
 put 2t.Jiopper on his LorJJhip*5 cable, and the 
 bulinefs in queftion was fettled amicably. 
 
 During the whole of the late war this ex- 
 cellent officer was employed and had the 
 honour, when commanding the Huflar, to 
 bring one of his enemy's frigates into port 
 after a very gallant adtion, which was very 
 well fought on both fides. 
 
 Captain Salter poflefles an univerfal good 
 chara6ler, and is held in great eftimation 
 among his brother officers. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 HONO.
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 HONORABLE CAPTAIN 
 WALDEGRAVE. 
 
 A MONG the many young tnen now 
 "^ ^ in the royal navy, who are not lefs 
 ennobled by their gallant actions, than by 
 the patrician blood which flows in their 
 veins, we may juftly fet down Captain 
 Waldegrave ; and if we purfue his conduct 
 through the paths of private life, this amia- 
 ble officer will be found to be an example 
 worthy of imitation as well to the humble 
 as to the great. 
 
 Captain Waldegrave is fon of the late 
 and brother to the prefent Earl Walde- 
 grave. The profeffion of the navy was his 
 own particular choice, and he was happily 
 placed under the tuition of fuch officers as 
 were calculated to improve his early genius 
 for nautical fcience. With them he com- 
 menced his military career, and having gone 
 through the inferior gradations of fcrvice in 
 
 the
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 the European and weflern feas, he was fent 
 out to the Eaft Indies under Sir Edward 
 Vernon, with whom he returned Qafter re- 
 maining fome years on that diftant flation) 
 to Europe, Captain of the Commodore's 
 fhip the Rippon, of 50 guns. 
 
 The chmate of the Eafl had a good deal 
 impaired Captain Waldegrave's health 
 however, at the din of war he offered his 
 fervices to the Board of Admiralty, and was 
 appointed to the command of the Prudente, 
 in which frigate he fought a moft gallant, 
 victorious adlion, and captured his enemy of 
 fuperior force. 
 
 Having terminated his progrefs through- 
 out the late war with infinite credit, the 
 ftate of his health required him to feek a 
 milder climate than that of England. Italy 
 was the country he made choice of, and Na- 
 ples the place of his refidence. 
 
 Captain Waldegrave's perfonal accom- 
 plishments and exemplary condudt gained 
 him the efleem of their Sicilian Majefties 
 and all the Neapolitan Court ; a paffion 
 
 war-
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 warmer than that of efteem, however, cap- 
 tivated the heart of an amiable young lady 
 of princely birth, with whom he is paffing 
 his days amidft the comforts of connubial 
 cafe, until the Britifh lion Ihall roufe the 
 gallant youth again to face the enemies of 
 Great Britain. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 t 49 ) 
 
 CAPT. THOMAS PRINGLE. 
 
 T T has been frequently remarked, that the 
 difpofitions of our fellow fubjets born 
 in the tropical countries, are in a great de* 
 gr^ fimilar to the genial warmth of thole 
 climates. This remark is very ftrongly ex- 
 emplified in the character of Captain Prin- 
 gle, who is a native of the Antilles, and pof- 
 felles all the fire and benevolence of h^art, (q 
 peculiar to the Weft Indies. 
 
 The events of this worthy officer's life have 
 been always marked with the moft confum- 
 mate zeal, bravery, and propriety. To a 
 found judgement, he joins a well informed 
 mind and a difpofition alive to every friendly 
 virtue. Having received the principal parts 
 of his nautical inftrudlions from his diftin- 
 guifhed patron, Admiral Barrington, it can-^ 
 not be fuppofed that he is in any refped un^ 
 (ii:^ifhed as a Aaval character, 
 
 E Capt,
 
 ( 50 ) 
 
 Capt. Pringle, during a part of the late 
 war, commanded the armed veflels employed 
 againft the rebels on the vaft lake of Cham- 
 plain, Ontario, &c.in North America ; upon 
 which fervice his exertions were unconar 
 monly great ; nor was his zeal and bravery 
 lefs confpicuous when Captain of the Ari- 
 adne frigate on the Leeward Ifland ftation. 
 
 Soon after this gallant officer returned to 
 England, after his various fervices on the 
 other fide the Atlantic, he was appointed to 
 the command of His Majeftys fhip Daedalus, 
 and again ordered to the coafts of America ; 
 being Rationed for fome time to cruize off 
 Quebec, Newfoundland, and tjie adjacent 
 feas. 
 
 Captain Pringle's conduct throughout the 
 \vhole of the war, illuftrated his character 
 in the highefi: degree and wjll prove a lafting 
 teflimoay of his exalted worth. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 HfiN,
 
 ( 51 ) 
 
 HON. CAPTAIN WILLIAM 
 CLEMENT FINCH. 
 
 npHERE are fome officers in the navy/ 
 as well as many men of the world, 
 whofe chara6ters are above defcription, or, 
 in other words, rather incomprehenfible. 
 How far Captain Finch comes under that 
 defcription, muft be colledled from the ge- 
 neral tenor of his conduct during the late 
 war. "" ' 
 
 Few men can alter that pecuHar difpofi- 
 tion which is implanted by nature, and in- 
 culcated in early youth ; it may, therefore, 
 be inferred, that however felf-opinionated 
 this officer might be found, in the execution 
 of his profeiTional duty, a great deal may l^e 
 imputed to the caufes above affigned, and 
 the balance againft it be fairly fet to the 
 account of his having been too nobly born, 
 or two lowly nurfed.
 
 ( 5* ) 
 
 At the commencement of the late war, 
 Captain Finch reludantly accepted the com- 
 mand of His Majefly's ihip Porcupine, of 20 
 guns it may be faid relu^antly^ as from his 
 connexions (the Earl of Suffolk, his bro- 
 ther-in-law, being at. that time one of the fe- 
 cretaries of flate) he had certainly a right to 
 expe(5l a better fhip than fuch an old tub as 
 the Porcupine, which would neither wear 
 nor ftay, and in which the honour of an offi- 
 cer might be undefervedly ftained.* 
 
 It fo happened however, that, in this re- 
 probate fhip, Captain Finch had the good 
 fortune to fall in with and capture a home- 
 ward bound French Eafl Indiaman, fo richly 
 laden, that he was ever afterwards diilin^ 
 guifhed by the appellation of the Goldfinch, 
 bis brother Seymour being alfo a Captain in 
 the navy. 
 
 * By the naval rules, the Captain of an Englifh 
 frigate, however deficient in point of force, is expec- 
 te4 to face an enemy's frigate, let her weight of rnetal 
 and opmber of guns be what they may. Such a fhip 
 as the Porcupine was neither calculated to fight nor 
 run away. 
 
 The
 
 ( 52 ) 
 
 The above appears to be the only eflential 
 fervice which Captain William Finch ren- 
 dered his country (or rather himfelf) du* 
 ring the late war, but having ftill youth and 
 fome experience on his fide, he may prove 
 himfelf in future wars, a true defcendant of 
 the illuflrious families from whence he 
 fprung. 
 
 E3 SIR
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 SIR ROGER CURTIS, KNT. 
 
 T^H ERE are many officers in the Britifh 
 navy, poflbfled of the moft ftriking 
 talents, the moft confummate ikill, and 
 the higheft perfonal bravery, whofe names 
 iiO martial annals will record, whilft that of 
 Sir Roger Curtis will be the theme of future 
 ages, and of heroes yet unborn. By this 
 prelude it is meant to infinuate, that how- 
 ever meritorious the conduct of this officer 
 may have been, there are not wanting num- 
 bers iii the Englifh navy who would have 
 ihewn equal zeal and ardour in the defence 
 of Gibraltar, had fortune placed them in that 
 certain road to fame ! 
 
 Sir Roger Curtis is the fon of an opulent 
 tradelinan in the county of Wilts, and was 
 fent early to fea, under the friendly auf- 
 pices of the late Lord Feverfham ; he fer- 
 ved fome time under that excellent mafter, 
 
 Admi-
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 Admiral Barrington, and was appointed a 
 JJeiitenant in the navy about the year i ']']<:ij 
 through the intereft of the prefent Duke of 
 Cumberland. Soon after his promotion, he 
 was employed fome time in the Newfound- 
 larld ftatioh, under the command of Lord 
 Shuldham, who paid great attention to him ; 
 he afterwards accompanied that Admiral to 
 North America, and, in the year 1776, was 
 appointed Captain of the Senegal frigate. 
 
 It was upon this ftation that Captain 
 Curtis firft att railed the notice of Lord 
 Howe, with whom he foon became fo great 
 .a favourite, that his Lordfhip on a vacancy, 
 appointed him Captain of his own fhip, the 
 Eagle of 64 guns, in which he returned with 
 the Admiral to England, and foon after his 
 arrival at Spithead was obliged to give up the 
 command of that fhip, on account of his ill 
 flate of health. 
 
 We (hall now come to that memorable 
 
 aera of his life when he failed in his Ma- 
 
 jefly's fhip the Brilliant for Gibraltar, where 
 
 he took upon him the whole department of 
 
 4 naval
 
 ( 56 > 
 
 naval affairs, and condu^led himfelf with 
 fuch niicommon zeal and activity, that he 
 won the entire confidence and efteem of the 
 intrepid governor of that important fortrefs* 
 The gun boats w^hich he fitted out afforded 
 great fecurity to the troops in camp ; and 
 his arrangements in general were highly ju- 
 dicious. 
 
 About the month of Auguft 1779, the 
 Helena floop of war, with difpatches from 
 England for the garrifon, being becalmed 
 in the bay, and attacked by a number of the 
 enemy's gun boats and other craft. Captain 
 Curtis, with only three gun boats, affifted 
 by the gallant defence of Captain Roberts 
 and the Helena's crew, abfolutely beat them 
 off in fight of a Spanifh frigate and xebeck 
 which were coming to their afliftance. Cap- 
 tain Roberts's conduct upon this occafion 
 was fuch, as, in point of nautical Ikill and 
 perfonal bravery, was fcarcely to be equalled 
 by any adion of the late war, and will, it 
 is hoped, juflify this little digreffion in his 
 favour. 
 
 To
 
 ( SI ) 
 
 To return to Sir Roger Curtis : A plaa 
 being formed by the general for making a 
 fally again ft the enemy from the garrifon, 
 one hundred failors, under the command 
 of two naval lieutenants, were employed 
 in that fally, and Captain Curtis headed 
 them with his ufual intrepidity ; and in two 
 hours thofe works were demolifhed, which 
 had been eighteen months conftruding. 
 
 This iignal fervice was performed before 
 15,000 Spanifh troops, and in front of at 
 leaft 70 pieces of cannon and y:) mortars. 
 When the enemy made his grand and final 
 attack on this impregnable fortrefs, Brigadier 
 Curtis difplayed as much courage in repel- 
 ling, as he did humanity in faving the un- 
 happy wretches, who, but for his exertions, 
 muft have perifhed, when the Spanifh bat- 
 tering Ihips were fet on fire by red hot balls, 
 and blown up or burnt. 
 
 He received the thanks of both Houfes of 
 Parliament, for his gallant condut at Gib- 
 raltar ; to which His Majefty was pleafed to 
 add the honour of Knighthood as a particular 
 
 mark
 
 ( 58 ) 
 
 mark of his Royal approbation. Growhed 
 with thofe never-fading laurels, Sir Roger 
 Curtis is now employed in lefs aftive fervice 
 as Captain of a guardfhip at Portfmouth. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR., 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN ROBERT MANN. 
 
 TT I S excellent qualities have juftly raifed 
 this a(flive and experienced officer very 
 high in the eftimation of all navy people, 
 and point him out as an example worthy of 
 imitation to thofe nautical cadets who may 
 wifh to attain the height of their profeffion. 
 
 Captain Mann, whether as aMidfhipman, 
 Lieutenant, or in a higher degree of rank, 
 was alio noticed for his ftricl adherence to 
 the rules of fervice, and his extreme alacrity, 
 prudence, and refolution, in the execution 
 of his orders. 
 
 He was flationed a confiderable time in the 
 Mediterranean, when his uncle, the late 
 Admiral Mann, had the chief command 
 there. His condudt as Captain of the Alarm 
 frigate caufed him to be particularly noticed 
 by all the inhabitants of Gibraltar, to whofe 
 interefl he paid uncommon attention. 
 
 During
 
 ( 6o ) 
 
 During the late war, Captain Mann was 
 chiefly employed in the Cerberus frigate, on 
 channel fervice, and was always a moft dili- 
 gent cruizcr. No fhip was lefs in port than 
 the Cerberus while under his command. 
 His provifions and ftores were got on board 
 with fuch alacrity that fhe was at all times 
 fit for fea. This refleds the greater merit 
 on Captain Mann, when it is confidered how 
 often it happens that the commanders of his 
 Majefty's fhips make for port when they are 
 able to keep the fea, and having once come 
 to an anchor, a thoufand fludied delays are 
 fabricated with a view to remain there. 
 
 Since the peace, Captain Mann has been 
 appointed to the Bedford, a guardfhip at 
 Portfmouth, which he now commands ; and 
 fhould our reftlefs neighbours again roufe 
 the Britifh Lion, it is a happy refiedlion that 
 the Englifh fleet will not want a Mann I 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAPT.
 
 < 6i ) 
 
 CAPT. JOHN BOURMASTER 
 
 TS a ftriking inftance, that induflry and 
 ^ merit muft raife a man Iboner or later in 
 the world, however obfcure his original, or 
 flender his connections. 
 
 Captain Bourmafter has gone through 
 every ftage of naval lervice, in all of which 
 he acquitted himfelf in fuch a manner, as to 
 lay the foundation of his preient rank and 
 future fortune. 
 
 He diiplayed great judgement, activity, 
 and integrity when he was employed as an 
 agent for tranfports, &c. which is a fervice 
 that requires uncommon attention and abi- 
 lity, if carried on with that vigour or provi- 
 dent care which is neceffary to conduct it 
 with effed. 
 
 To a vigilance in this bufinefs Captain 
 Bourmafter is indebted fpr the rank he now 
 fb worthily bears in the Royal navy, and 
 fmce his attainment tp which, he has fup- 
 
 ported
 
 ( 62 ) 
 
 ported in a manly, gentleman-like, and qioft 
 becoming manner. 
 
 Several of His Majefly's fhips during the 
 Jate war \yere entrufted to the command of 
 Captain Bourmafler, at different periods; 
 particularly the unfortunate Royal George, 
 which he commanded when bearing the flag 
 of Sir John Lockhart Rofs. 
 
 It has bpen pften faid, that true politenefs 
 is only to be found among thofe who have 
 received a finifhed education in the higher 
 circles of life. The behaviour, however, 
 of Captain Bourmaftcr on board his fhip, 
 when compared to that of fome of thofe ig- 
 norant ftriplings of quality who feryed laft 
 war, gives the lye direl: to the admifiion of 
 fych a prepofterous way of thinking, and 
 plainly Ihews, that from the aera when 
 Britifh naval officers were not compelled to 
 wear any cloaths but what they could afford 
 to pay for, and were ftrangers to all fignals 
 but of indifcriminate battle, " everj^ man bis 
 birdy^'* may b<s dated Great Britain^s Sove- 
 reignty over the Main. 
 
 I Captaiii
 
 ( 63 ) 
 
 Captain Bourmafter's uniform good na- 
 ture will pardon this digreffion of the author, 
 who, though unknown, wi(hes him, moft 
 cordially, every poffible happinefs in his 
 prefent command,* and fincerely prays that 
 the navy of England may be flrengthened 
 by a few more fuch meritorious chara6lers. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * Captain Bourmafler at prefent commands the 
 Elizabeth, a guardfhip of 74 guns at Portfmouth 
 
 CAPT.
 
 ( 64 ) 
 
 CAPT, CHARLES HOPE 
 
 TTA S been ever deemed an acqiiifition to 
 the navy, as an excellent pleafant offi- 
 cer, whofe nautical experience and various 
 fervices entitled him to the praifes of a ma- 
 ritime, or more properly fpeaking, (confi- 
 dcring the temper of the times,) a republi- 
 can ftate !* 
 
 Captain Hope is a defcendant of the noble 
 houfe of Hopetoun, and has ever conduled 
 himfelf in the line of his profellion in a very 
 meritorious manner. He has ferved on 
 various ftations abroad w^ith great credit, 
 and bids fair to be one of the befl; Hopes of 
 the Britifh fleet ! 
 
 Prior to the period when Albion had efta- 
 blifhed the bleffings of peace (during the 
 pleajiire of the Grande Monarque) and de^ 
 
 ; * An allufion to the Prinpe Regent's reJlrilhKSy 
 or the farce of ** Duke and np^ Duke." 
 
 claration^s
 
 ( 60 
 
 clarations and counter declarations, treaties 
 and commercial treaties, were exchanged be- 
 tweeh the moft Chriftian King and his feri- 
 tannic M2Lje{\:y\MimJIers, Captain Hope com- 
 manded the Sampfon of 64 guns, which for 
 fome time bore the flag of Vice Admiral 
 Milbanke, commander in chief at Plymouth. 
 
 When the defigns of the Cabinet of Ver- 
 failles refpeling its adherence to the caufe of 
 the revolters in Holland became fo apparent j 
 as to render it neceflarj for Great Britain to 
 arm in fupport of the Prince of Orange ; the 
 Vidory was commiffioned, and Captain 
 Hope appointed to command her, under the 
 flag of Rear Admiral Levefon Gower, which 
 was intended to be hoifted on board that 
 Ihip, had not matters been amicably fettled. 
 
 Captain Hope's knowledge of the fervice, 
 and other favourable traits in his character, 
 bids fair to render his name more brilliant 
 in futufe wars than it is at prefent. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 F CAPTAIN
 
 (, 66 ) 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE KEPPEL 
 
 T^E S E RV E S more of good fortune than 
 \"^ has yet fell to his fhare : generous 
 w^hput conduct, he has unhappily invol- 
 yed himfelf in temporary embarraflments ; 
 of which the Jefuitical Locufls of fpciety took 
 advantage, and thereby rendered it neceflary 
 jfor him to retire to the continent. 
 
 Although an illegitimate fon of the late 
 Earl of Albemarle, Captain Keppel was, 
 i^everthelefs, always treated by his father 
 \|S^ith every poilible degree of tender afFec- 
 ^<)^;;he was ufhered into the naval fervice 
 finder thp kind aufpices of^he late.Lord 
 Keppel, brother to the- noble Earl. 
 
 Educated among young men of fafhion, 
 k cannot be a matter of iurprife that Cap- 
 tain Keppel imbibed all the. extravagant^ 
 ideas of the falhionable world : he however 
 was always attentive to his profeffional du- 
 ties, and fo rigid in feeing a il:ri(5t obedience 
 
 main-
 
 .( 
 
 ( 67 ) 
 
 fiiaintained^ relative to the articles of war^ 
 that he got the name of a Martinet, and fea- 
 meii felt a kind of dread to enter themfelves 
 fbr the fhip he commanded. 
 
 As Captain of the ^olus frigate laft war, 
 he was rather fuccefsful when cruizing oft 
 the banks of the Newfoundland, where he 
 had the good fortune to fall in with and 
 capture an American fhip, having on board 
 Mn Laurens, the Celebrated prefident of the 
 Congrefs, who was brought to London, and 
 confined fome time in the Tower. 
 
 The next fhip Captain Keppel commanded 
 was the Fortitude of 74 guns, on board 
 which Vice Admiral Milbanke hoifted his 
 flag, as commander in chief of a fquadron 
 deflined to be employed in the north feas. 
 This fervice having been performed, the 
 Fortitude becamd a private fhip, and failed 
 in Admiral Milbanke's divilion of the fleet, 
 deflined to relieve Gibraltar. 
 
 The war being at an end Captain Keppel 
 obtained the command of the Hebe frigate 
 ^hich had been captured from the French) 
 
 -^o:^ p 2 and
 
 ( 68 ) 
 
 md after fitting her out in a mofl complete 
 manner at Plymouth, was under the difa- 
 greeable neceffity of retiring to France, in 
 order to arrange the embarrafled ftate of his 
 private affairs. 
 
 Captain Keppel is a good officer, whofc 
 merit will, it is hoped, be brought forward 
 on any preffing occafion. 
 
 NAiJTICUS JUNIOR, 
 
 HON,
 
 ( h ) 
 
 HON. CAPTAIN WINDSOR. 
 
 n^HE fate of His Maje%*s frigate the Fox, 
 and the excellent combat Captain Wind- 
 fbr fuftained with a French ihip of fuperior 
 force, to which he was compelled to flrike 
 his colours after a defperate engagement in 
 which he was wounded, conveys a ftriking 
 proof of his ikill, bravery, and zeal for the 
 honour of the Britifh flao;, 
 
 A great deal might be faid of this gallant 
 officer's conduct from the time he firft went 
 to Tea under the late Admiral Young ; but 
 fuch retrofpedls are needlefs. 
 
 Captain Windfor could have no incentive 
 to lead him to fea but a native ardour for 
 the naval fervice. He is prefumptive heir 
 to the Earldom of Plymouth, and poflelTes 
 accomplifliments that would render him an 
 ornament to any circle of life. 
 
 The rank of Mafter and Commander he 
 pj;)tained from the Weazle (loop f war, and 
 
 F 3 ^b^^
 
 ( .7 ) 
 that of Pofl-captain from his command of 
 the Europa, which was deftined to receive 
 Aflmiral Arbuthnot's flag, 
 
 It was fubfequent to this period that Cap- 
 tain Windfor was appointed to the com- 
 mand of the Fqx, and in compUment to his 
 ..gallant defence of that frigate, another fhip, 
 bearing the fame ^lame, was laid upon the 
 ftocks, and given to him as a mark of pub- 
 lic approbation of his conducl:. No pane- 
 gyric can be ilronger. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR^ 
 
 CAPT,
 
 (7' ) 
 
 r nr.f;.- 
 
 CAPT. ANTHONY JAMES 
 PYE MOLLOY'S 
 
 TVTAVAL character is great, and his pro- 
 -*" ^ feffional abilities unqueftionable. How 
 far he has modulated his feelings on their 
 way from the orlofs to the great cabbin, the 
 officers of the Intrepid, Trident, and other 
 fhips which he had the honour to command, 
 muil: determine. 
 
 Every Captain of even a Merchant fhip is 
 compelled to do his duty by a kind of charter 
 party ; but the honour and dignity of the 
 Royal Navy requires and direts, that the 
 commanders of His M^jefly's fhips fhall be 
 liable to be tried by a court martial for tyran^ 
 n'lcal behaviour alone. A naval Captain, how- 
 ever, (who is the only man on board a King's 
 ihip that can be tried by his Peers') feels 
 
 F4 little
 
 ( 72 ') 
 
 Jittle dread when he overleaps the limits of 
 reafon, juftice, and humanity ; die reafon is 
 obvious. 
 
 It is greatly to be lamented, whe(i a 
 Lieutenant quits the wardroorn to take 
 pofTeflion of the cabbin, that he inftantly 
 renounces the friends of his convivial hours, 
 to mix with that race of arrogant mortals., 
 who fancy that a laced coat would be tarnifh- 
 ed by the pipe clay duil: that might ifluc 
 from the lappels of a Lieutenant. 
 
 Perifh fuch unworthy, fuch illiberal dif- 
 tintions, except on real fervice ! 
 
 After allowing Captain MoUoy full credit 
 for l^is profeilional abilities and bravery, it 
 may not appear ill timed, to embrace the 
 prefent opportunity of giving a fhort Iketch 
 of the manners adopted by a naval Lieute- 
 nant on his acquiring the rank of a Cap' 
 tain. 
 
 Firft, On reading his commiflion he be- 
 comes thoughtful, then referved, orders his 
 boat to be manned in a more lofty tone than 
 ^ ufual,
 
 ( n ) 
 
 ufual, and receives the congratulations of his 
 meflrnates with a fort of ilifFnefs, bordering 
 on temporary infanity ! 
 
 Secondly, He repairs on board the Ihip he 
 is appointed to command, and with an air 
 of complacency (in order to give the fhip's 
 company an idea of his goodnefs) directs his 
 commiffion to be read, and on leaving the 
 fhip orders the barge to be manned. 
 
 Thirdly, He waits upon the Admiral's 
 Secretary, to report his proceedings. 
 
 Fourthly, He vilits the other Captains at 
 their club, (a very great novelty indeed / ) 
 where he is informed it is beneath a Captain 
 to treat any fubordinate officer like a gentle- 
 man, and that he mufl only communicate 
 with them on duty ; and that in writings for 
 fear he ihould derogate from his dignity. 
 
 Fifthly, Being a new thing, he keeps his 
 barge's crew waiting (no matter what the 
 weather is) whilfl he is receiving the con- 
 gratulations of the race of mortals he is 
 HOW mixed with ; from whom he is to re- 
 ceive his leflbns; and probably at 12 o'Clock 
 
 at
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 at night he goes on board ; and if he is a man 
 of difcernment, will forego his confequence 
 until he has founded the depths of his offi- 
 cers ; that done they are no longer fit com^i? 
 panions for a Captain. 
 
 He is vifited the next morning by the Mar- 
 tinet Captains of the fleet, who come to fup* 
 port the confequence of their new brother 
 oflicer, and to enforce upon his mind^ that 
 all Lieutenants are black-guards if they have.: 
 not interefl: (no matter whether petticoat or 
 borough intereft) at the Admiralty, or with 
 the Admiral in command. 
 . Seventhly, It is recommended to him,^ 
 never to bring an officer to a court martial, 
 without previoufly confulting ihofe who are 
 to try him^ how far he is likely to fucceed. 
 
 In fhort fo many and fo extraordinary are 
 the regulations, or rather cufloms, refpe^ling 
 navy Captains, that a recital of them would 
 be too voluminous for this little work. 
 
 To return then to Captain MoUoy. After 
 
 allowing him every poffible profeflional me- 
 
 fk, it refts with himfelf to tlirow off that 
 
 2 dark
 
 ( 75 ) 
 
 dark (hade in his private character, which 
 appears in the form of an affidavit ! 
 
 The paffions of either fex are variable as 
 the Thermometer ; fometimes high in the 
 extreme, and at others be^ow the freezing 
 point. No efforts can calm the human 
 inind but thofe which refult from the force 
 of reafon, honour and reflexion. It is then 
 the bufinefs of man, if he has not fortitude 
 to withftand the power of female temptation, 
 at leaft when the moment of paffion has fub- 
 {ided, to fhekei the weaker fex from thofe 
 malevolent cenfures which the world are 
 too apt to propagate. 
 
 Captain Molloy at prefent commands a 
 guardfhip at Plymouth, and is very capable 
 of being re-inftated in procefs of time, in the 
 favourable opinion of his well-wifhers. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR, 
 
 CAPT,
 
 ( 76 ) 
 
 GAPT. WILLIAM YOUNG 
 
 T S the epitome of his late worthy father, 
 -*- Admiral Young, of refpefted memory, 
 and has at all times conducted himfelf with 
 fuch becoming propriety, and profeffional 
 knowledge, as to claim the genuine praifes 
 of all who know him. 
 
 There is a fort of modeft diffidence in 
 Captain Young's manner which is very en- 
 gaging, but particularly in the exercife of 
 his duty, to which he has at all times paid 
 the moil: rigid attention. 
 
 His Majefty's fhip the Hinde (an old 20 
 gun fhip) afforded very little opportunity of 
 fignahzing himfelf during the late war. He 
 commanded her for a confiderable time, and 
 did every thing that a Captain could poffibly 
 effect in fo wretched a fliip. 
 
 A propos, a frigate of this clafs : they are 
 calculated only to bring difhonour, infamy, 
 and difgrace on the Britifh flag. The ene-.. 
 
 mie^
 
 ( 77 ) 
 
 mies of Britain have no fuch (hip in their 
 lervice bnt fuch as they have captured from 
 us ; nor do they build any. They are even 
 oinfit to protect a valuable convoy coaftwife, 
 and are in other refpels mere fhadows of 
 Men of war, but they give the rank of Poft, 
 fo far they are of utility. 
 
 Many privateers failed laft war from the 
 ports of Liverpool and Briftol, fuperior in 
 every refpe(St to the Hinde : Captain Young 
 was, however, too well acquainted with his 
 duty to repine, and therefore cheerfully made 
 the beft of her, in a manner that does him 
 very great credit, and juftifies the good opi- 
 nion which is generally entertained of him.* 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * Captain Young commanded the Ambufcade, the 
 latter part of the late war. 
 
 HON.
 
 ( ?8 ) 
 
 BON. CAPXAtN ifP&^-- 
 SEYMOUR CONWAy! 
 
 ft/* HIS diftiiiiguifhed young oHiceT i&^ the 
 compendium of every, military, and 
 tranfcendant virtue, and unites to his other 
 amiable accomphfhraents, a figure formed to 
 engage admiration and captiyate eflcem. 
 
 The whole tenor of Captain Conway' s life^ 
 has been oiie, continued iyflem of uniform 
 .excellence J and hi^ character a^; a naval offi- 
 cer ftands fjril among the gallant VQiiths who 
 .,j, diftiijguilhed themfelves tliroughout the late 
 war. Anxious to glean inftriitSlion from 
 thofe whofe names flood higli on the lifls of 
 nautical fam.e, he continually attached him- 
 felfto fuch officers as Admiral Barrington^ 
 Sir John Jervis, and others of that eminent 
 defcription ; and fo well has he profited by 
 their leflbns and examples, that. , although 
 young in years, he may be faid to have no- 
 thing to learn in the line of his profeffion. 
 
 Du-
 
 ( 79 ) 
 
 During the late war. Captain Conway's mi* 
 litary character received the rr.oft finifhed po- 
 lilh, from his conduct in the command of His 
 Majefty'sfhip Latona, of -^(^ guns. This fhip 
 was moftly attached to the grand fleet, and 
 when Lord Howe failed for the relief of Gib- 
 raltar, the Latona was the firft man of war 
 that entered Rolia bay, and gave intelligence 
 ot^\hi arrival of fuccours to the brave de- 
 fender of that fortrefs. She was alfo of in- 
 finite affiftance in tranfporting the troops 
 from the fhips of the line into the garrifon, 
 Jnd, in ihort, proved the moft ferviceable 
 frigate upon that important expedition. 
 Such diftinguifhed qualities were not alone 
 ^*''tfie admiration of the Britifh navv, thevmade 
 ' a deep impreffion on the heart of the all 
 '^' accomplifhed Lady Horatio Waldegrave, 
 '''daughter of Her Royal Highnefs the Duchefs 
 ' ioif Glocefter, who in confequence of Gap- 
 tain Conway's illuftrious defcent and' un- 
 blemiihed chara8:er confented to their union, 
 and they are at this time tiie brightcft exam- 
 ple of connubial happinefs* 
 
 The 

 
 ( 8* ) 
 
 The Prince of Wales whom merit never 
 cfcapes, has thought -proper to place Captain 
 Conway near His Royal perfon, in quality 
 of mafler of the Robes and privy purfe to His 
 Highnefs; but not all the allurements of 
 fplendid eafe, nor the fafcinating powers of 
 love and beauty, could reflrain him from 
 the glorious purfuits of mihtary fame. 
 
 No fooner did Great Britain fhew a difpo- 
 lition to arm in fupport of the Stadtholderian 
 caufe, than this zealous officer offered his 
 fervices, and was appointed to the command 
 of the Alarm frigate, in which he remained 
 until that fhip was paid off. 
 
 Captain Conway is Son of the Earl of 
 Hertford, and was lately elected member 
 of Parliament for Tiegony in Cornwall. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR- 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 ( 8i ) 
 
 CAPTAIN GEORGE ANSON 
 BYRON. 
 
 npO the moft amiable qualities of the 
 mind, this excellent young officer 
 unites the higheft prbfeffional virtues. Brave, 
 without oftentation, generous without mif- 
 conduft, and hardy without being rafh ; it 
 has of courfe been his good fortune to be 
 efleemed and relpeled by all who have had 
 the pleafure of being any way connected 
 with him. 
 
 Captain Byron is the Ton of the late Ad- 
 miral of that name, and was early educated 
 for the navy. During the late war he diftin- 
 guifhed himfelf on many important occa- 
 fions, particularly while commanding the 
 Proferpine of 28 guns, to which a French 
 frigate, called the Alcmene, ftruck her co- 
 lours, as did alfo the Sphynx, which had 
 been captured by the enemy, and was retaken 
 by the Proferpine, after a very fmart en- 
 G sao;e-
 
 ( 82 ) 
 
 gagement, which refleded great credit on 
 Captain Byron, efpecially as the Sphynx 
 was affifted bv an armed veffel, which was 
 cruizing in company with her. 
 
 At the time the Sphynx was retaken, fhe 
 was commanded by a nephew of the Go- 
 vernor General of the French Weft India 
 Iflands. This young man pofl'efled fuch a 
 habit of vain boafting, that he pubhcly de- 
 clared at Saint Euftatius, his determination 
 to capture the Proferpine wherever he could 
 fall in with her, and being informed that 
 Captain Byron and his officers ufually re- 
 galed themfelves with a few dices of ham 
 at break faft ; the audacious gafcon furnifhed, 
 himfelf with one, by way of treat to the 
 foes he had already vanquifhed in his mind ; 
 nowever, it fo happened, that vidory decla- 
 red for the Proferpine, to the utter confu- 
 fion of the French commander. 
 
 This gallant officer afterwards performed 
 very lignal fervices as Captain of the An- 
 dromache ; and to this activity and good look- 
 out may be attributed the engagement of 
 
 the
 
 ( 83 ) 
 
 tkie glorious 1 2th of April ; for being flationed 
 to cruize off the Diamond rock, near Mar- 
 tiiiico, he gave Admiral Rodney fuch im- 
 mediate notice of the enemy's motions, that 
 the Britiih fquadron, chen Iving off Saint 
 Lucia, were enabled to intercept and bring 
 them to action. 
 
 . In confequence of that important vidory, 
 the Englifh Admiral difpatched Captain By- 
 ron with the pleaflng intelligence thereof to 
 Europe. 
 
 A fquadron having lately been equipped 
 to ferve in the Eaft Indies, under the Hon, 
 Commodore Cornwallis, Captain Byron was 
 judged a proper officer to be appointed to the 
 command of one of them, the Phoenix of 36 
 guns, and there is no doubt but his conduct 
 in the Oriental feas, will reflect equal credit 
 on him with that he has already acquired in 
 the Weftern hemifphere. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 G 2 CAP-
 
 ( 84 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN THOMAS 
 
 X /TAY be numbered among thofe fpirited 
 ^^*' officers who feek preferment only 
 from their merit and profeffional exertions. 
 The great deeds he performed, and the 
 wounds he received during the late war, 
 in a very fevere action in the Wefl Indies, 
 rendered him for a time an object of the 
 utmoft commiferation. 
 
 Captain Thomas obtained his firfl com- 
 miffion in the navy, on account of his ha- 
 ving boldly undertaken, and moft admirably" 
 executed, what no other midfhipman in the 
 fhip to which he belonged, would venture to 
 undertake. 
 
 His conduct on the Leeward Ifland Na- 
 tion was fufficiently meritorious to entitle 
 him to the rank which he there attained. 
 After ferving fome time in a floop of war 
 he was raifed to the rank of Poft- captain, 
 and appointed to the command of the Albe- 
 marle,
 
 ( 85 ) 
 
 marie, a frigate which had been captured 
 from the French, and was fo named by the 
 Admiral in compliment to the noble houfe 
 of Keppel, 
 
 More might be faid relative to the merits 
 of Captain Thomas, was it neceflary ; but 
 the records of the Admiralty bear ample tef- 
 timony to his meritorious fervices. 
 
 It is reported that a penfion has been-v 
 granted to this gallant, maimed officer ; if 
 lb, it is the only mark of favour of that kind 
 which appears in proof of public reward for 
 naval fervices, performed by young captains* 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 G 3 CAPT^
 
 ( 86 ) 
 
 CAPT. FRANCIS JOHN 
 HARTWELL. 
 
 'T^HE fervices of this officer, during the 
 late war, were chiefly confined to thp 
 Weft Indies. He owes the firft rudiments 
 of his nautical education to his father, the 
 late Captain Hartwell, who died Lieutenant 
 Governor of Greenwich Hofpital. 
 
 Captain Hartwell for fbme time com- 
 manded His Majefty's Bomb vefiel the yEtna, 
 ftationed at the ifland of Antigua ; and on 
 the death of Captain Broughton fucceeded 
 that officer iii the command of the Sphynx 
 frigate, on board which (hip he continued 
 fome time, and was afterwards removed to 
 the Brune. After commanding^ the latter 
 Ihip on different fervices, he returned in her- 
 to England. 
 
 The engaging manners and amiable qua-j 
 lities which illuftrate Captain Hart well's 
 
 cha-i
 
 ( 8; ) 
 
 cliara6ler, have always conduced to render 
 him refpefiied and beloved by the officers and 
 companies of fuch fhips as he w^as deftined 
 to command ; and although no ftpiking 
 marks of gallantry adorn his profeffional 
 name, he may neverthelefs be confidered as 
 an officer whofe zeal, honour, and princi- 
 ples, are in every refpedt calculated to add to 
 the luftre of the Britifh flag. 
 
 In private life. Captain Hart well's is held 
 in univerfal eflimation, and he may fafely 
 fay, (what every Captain in the royal navy 
 cannot fay,) that thofe who have ever ferved 
 under his command, would be happy to find 
 themfelves again under his pendant. 
 
 In confideration of Captain Hartwell's for- 
 mer fervices, he at prefent commands His 
 Majefly*s fhip Ardent, a guardfhip at Portf- 
 mouth. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 G 4 CAPT.
 
 ( 88 ) 
 
 CAPT. ERASMUS GOWER 
 
 TS a moft fingular inftance that it is dan^ 
 ** gerous and impolitic to render oiirfelves 
 of too much fervice and utility to our coun- 
 try. 
 
 Captain Gower was of the number of 
 thofe daring adventurers who endeavoured 
 to trace the fources of the fouthern feas, and 
 to explore the iilands with which they 
 abound. He was employed a long time 
 on this arduous fervice under the ever-to-be 
 lamented Captain Cook, and was afterwards 
 employed in the Indian feas. 
 
 His practical knowledge, added to a 
 judgement ripened by the moft fedulous 
 ftudy of the fciences of geography and 
 aftronomy, led him to be confidered as an 
 officer whofe abilities would be of infinite 
 ufe to any flag officer who might be defti- 
 ned to command in the Eaft Indies. 
 
 I With
 
 ( 89 ) 
 
 With this view the Earl of Sandwich, 
 whofe zeal for the good of his country car- 
 lied his Lordfhip, on this occafion, rather 
 beyond his private feelings, infifled on Cap- 
 tain Gower's taking the command of the 
 Medea frigate and proceeding in her to India, 
 
 Captain Gower, opprefled as he was by 
 bilious and other complaints which endan- 
 gered his life, obeyed, neverthelefs, the or- 
 ders he received from the Board of Admi- 
 ralty, and having happily returned in health 
 and lafety, will, it is to be hoped, meet that 
 recompence which his profelfional fervices 
 fo juftly merit. 
 
 The laft fervice of this officer was, in the 
 command of His Majefly's fhip the Salif- 
 bury, the late flag fhip on the Newfound- 
 land flation under Admiral Elliot. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR^ 
 
 CAPT,
 
 ( 90 ) 
 
 CAPT. JOHN HOLLOWAY 
 
 /COMPRIZES the genuine charader of 
 a true Britifh tar and gallant officer, 
 Honeft without difguife, brave without of- 
 tentation, and independent without being 
 alTuming. He merits every thing that can 
 be faid in his favour as a defervingr naval 
 Commander. 
 
 When Commodore (now Admiral) Ho- 
 tham hoifled his broad pendant on board 
 His Majefty's Ihip the Vengeance, in the 
 Weft Indies, Captain Holloway ferved un- 
 der him as Commander of that fhip, and 
 condudlcd himfelf in fo gallant and judicious 
 a manner, as to fecure to himfelf the patro^ 
 nage and good opinion of that brave officer. 
 
 Captain Holloway was employed upon 
 
 various other fervices during the late war ; 
 
 ' but I fhall particularize his command of the 
 
 Buffalo of 60 guns, at the relief of Gibraltar 
 
 under Lord Howe, 
 
 ft
 
 ( 91 ) 
 
 It muft frft be mentioned that the Buf-^ 
 falo had for a long time been ftationed as a 
 flag ihip in the Downs, on account of her 
 being confidered as unfit for fea. Secondly^ 
 that (he was badly manned, and therefore 
 felecled by that admirable officer Lord 
 Howe as a proper ihip tro take charge of a 
 convoy of ftore-fhips deftined for the relief 
 of a diftrefled garrifon ; and thirdly^ placed 
 as the laft ihip in the rear divilion of that 
 Jleet, which Great Britain had thought fit 
 to entrull: to his Lord{hip*s charge. 
 
 By his judicious condu<5t. Captain Hollo- 
 way, who, with his convoy, were driven 
 up the Mediterranean by a violent gale of 
 wind and feparated from the fleet, happily 
 regained the rock, and he faw his ftore-fhips, 
 j&c. into the garrilbn. 
 
 This fervice performed, the Bufi^alo took 
 her ftation in the rear divifion of the fleet 
 commanded by Vice Admiral Milbanke, 
 mid during the a<5tion that took place, was 
 for a long time fo pointed an object for the 
 
 enemy'ss
 
 ( 92 ) 
 
 enemy's heavy fhlp3> that they had nearly 
 funk her. 
 
 Captain Holloway now commands the 
 Solebay frigate on the Jamaica ftation, and 
 will at all times merit that valuable charac-. 
 teriflic of a good feaman ; an hoi^eft fel- 
 low. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 HON.
 
 t 93 ) 
 
 HON. CAPT. PAKENHAM. 
 
 'T^ HIS eccentric, dafhing, excellent young 
 officer is a brother of Lord Long- 
 ford's, and has evinced the native ardour 
 which animates his foul, in many glorious 
 inftances. 
 
 It might be almofl: unneceflary to advert 
 to any other circumftance of his profeffio- 
 nal life, than that of his gallant defence of 
 the Crefcent frigate, upon which occafiori 
 he merits every praife that can poffibly be 
 beftowed upon him. 
 
 Captain Pakenham is one of thofe kind 
 of commanders who are always prepared 
 for fervice, on every pollible emergency ; 
 and notwithftanding the gaiety, congenial to 
 an honeft breafl which fometimes leads him 
 to admit of certain excefles on board the 
 fhlps he may command ; there is not an of- 
 ficer in the Britifh navy who feels more zea- 
 
 loufly.
 
 ( 94 ) 
 
 loiifly, or who als more ardently, for the 
 honour of his profeffion, than he does. 
 
 The olive having fpread her peaceful 
 branches over the Britifh dominions, this 
 gallant officer has of courfe retired to his 
 native ifle, and has been lately appointed to 
 a civil office, in the Government of the fifter 
 
 kingdom. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 LORD
 
 ( 95 ) 
 
 LORD HERVEY. 
 
 npHERE is a heat and violence in the difpo- 
 fition of this young nobleman, which, 
 if tempered with reafon and moderation, 
 would render him more refpelable as an offi- 
 cer, and lefs exceptionable as a man. His 
 Lordfhip is the eldeft fon of the Earl of Brif- 
 tol, nowBifhop of Derry, in Ireland, and was 
 introduced into the navy by the late Com- 
 modore Hervey. The noble Lord's charac- 
 ter is tinged with the heterogeneous wan- 
 derings of the family conliftency was never 
 a leading feature in the portraits of the Her- 
 vey s ; and his Lordfhip is by no means an 
 ialien to his relations in thatrefpeft. although 
 he has been long at variance with his noble 
 
 father. 
 
 As a naval officer. Lord Hervey juflly 
 
 merits praife ; and during the laft war, was 
 
 forward with his fervices upon every pref- 
 
 fing
 
 ( 96 > 
 
 fing occafion. While Captain of the Raifon- 
 nable, of 64 guns, the general tenor of his 
 conduct was approved ; but in one particu- 
 lar inftance relative to his attack on Lord 
 Howe, he certainly departed from his digni- 
 ty, by fuffering himfelf to be prevailed upon 
 publicly to deny, what he had as publicly 
 aflerted. His Lordfhip was perfectly right 
 in the outfet of that unpleafant controverfy, 
 but the event caft a blot upon his profelfional 
 charal:er, which cannot be eafily done 
 a way. 
 
 Great praife is due to Lord Hervey for 
 bringing the mutineers on board his fhip to 
 condign punifhments : they were executed 
 at Chatham as an example to the feamen of 
 the fleet. 
 
 He is at this time Envoy at the court of 
 Florence; but there is no doubt, in cafe 
 of hoftilities with any foreign power, that 
 his zeal and fpirit will lead him to quit 
 the effeminacies of an Italian court, for the- 
 more glorious and alive fcenes of military 
 life. Should that be the cafe, it will be his 
 
 Lord-
 
 ( 97 ) 
 
 Lordfhip's own fault, if hk name is not en- 
 rolled upon the gallant lift of naval Britiih 
 worthies 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 H CAPT.
 
 ( 98 ) 
 
 CAPT. JAMES HAWKINS 
 
 IS the fon of an Irifh Bifhop, and although 
 fomewhat fingular in his mode of think- 
 ing, that fiugularity originates folely from 
 the aVuating principles of a generous mind. 
 
 Captain Hawkins's perfonal accomplifh- 
 mcnts are confefledly captivating ; his pro- 
 feffional conduct truly meritorious, and his 
 fervices various. 
 
 During the late war this defending young 
 officer fhewed great activity in the command 
 of His Majefty's fhip the Ceres, which was 
 fome time employed on the feas of North 
 America. 
 
 When terms of accommodation had taken 
 place, fo far as to fink the appellation of Re^ 
 bel in the milder tone of that of independent 
 ftates, the military cheft at New York was 
 put on board the Ceres, and brought to Eng-? 
 land under the charge of Captain Haw- 
 kins. 
 
 Since
 
 ( 99 ) 
 
 Since the conclufion of peace, he has had 
 the command of the Rofe frigate, which has 
 been ftationed to cruize off the coaft of Scot- 
 land and Ireland ; and the exertions Captain 
 Hawkins has ufed againft the fmugglers in 
 the northern feas, does him great credit. 
 
 Few officers are better calculated by nature 
 to fupport the dignity of a naval Captain 
 th^n this officer, and many are the proofs 
 he has given of it in the courfe of his feverai 
 commands in that ranl^ of his profeffion 
 which he now holds, 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 H 2 LORD
 
 ( Joo ) 
 
 LORD CHARLES FITZGERALD. 
 
 'npHIS gallant young nobleman is de- 
 fcended from the great Earl of Kildare, 
 in the kingdom of Ireland, and is next bro- 
 ther to the prefent Duke of Leinften His 
 Lordfhip made a very confpicuous figure 
 during the late war in the feveral ranks of 
 Lieutenant, Mafter and Commander, and 
 Poft-captain in the Royal navy. Captain 
 Marfhall had the fatisfalion to receive Lord 
 Charles as junior Lieutenant on board the 
 Arethufa frigate, which fhip had the honour 
 to ftrike the firll: blow laft war, in an en- 
 gagement with the Belle Poule French fri- 
 gate, now in the Britifh fervice; during 
 which adion, his Lordfhip difplayed all the 
 native bravery of his illuftrious anceftors, 
 but was unfortunately wounded. We next 
 find his Lordfhip employed as commander 
 ofhisMajefly's cutter the Tapageur, which 
 had been recently captured from the enemy. 
 2 This
 
 ( lOJ ) 
 
 This veffel gave Lord Charles the rank of 
 Mailer and Commander, and fhe Avas fent to 
 the Weft Indies with difpatches for Lord 
 Rodney, but had the misfortune to ftrike 
 upon the rocks in the careenage at Saint 
 Lucia, where fhe was loft ; but happily his 
 Lordfhip and the crew were faved. Not 
 long after this accident he was made Poft 
 into the Sphynx of 24 guns, which was for 
 fome time an attendant frigate on the Lee- 
 ward Ifland fquadron. Rear Admiral Parker 
 being ordered home, hoifted his flag in the 
 Medway, which, with the Centurion and 
 Sphynx, convoyed to England a very valua- 
 ble fleet of merchant (hips. The fame fata- 
 lity which happened to his Lordftiip on the 
 rocks of Saint Lucia, had nearly befallen 
 him on thofe of Scilly, from which he had 
 a miraculous efcape. Such was the ardour , 
 of this diftinguifhed youth that he fcarcely 
 allowed himfelf time to vifit his noble family 
 and numerous friends before he obtained the 
 command of the Sybil frigate, and immedi- 
 ately returned to the great theatre of war, 
 H 3 ia
 
 ( 10^ ) 
 
 in the Weft Indies, where he rendered him- 
 very active at the capture of Saint Euftatius, 
 particularly in chafing the Dutch Admiral, 
 and the (hips which were endeavouring to 
 efcape, and which by the exertions of his 
 Lordfhip, under the Captains Reynolds (now 
 Lord Ducie) and Harvey, were added to 
 the number of prizes taken in the road of 
 Statia. The various gallant actions of Lord 
 Charles Fitzgerald are too eminently on re- 
 cord to need any farther praife ; but there is 
 one in particular, which reflel:s fo much 
 honour on his Lordfhip*s bravery and hu- 
 manity, that it would be injuflice to with- 
 hold the knowledge of it from the public. 
 It unfortunately happened, that a failor fell 
 from the main yard into the fea, when the 
 (hip was abfolutely going through the water 
 at a great rate ; his Lord(hip obferving the 
 circumftance, pulled off his coat, immedi- 
 ately jumped over board, and heroically fa- 
 ved the man's life, at the extreme hazard 
 of his own; therebv illuftratino; in its ful- 
 left force, the motto of the Leinftcr family, 
 
 ' Cro}n
 
 ( '^3 ) 
 
 Crom a-BoOy which fignifies " He/p In dif" 
 trefs^ 
 
 It is needlefs to fay more, than that Lord, 
 Fitzgerald is a nobleman of the moft fbcial 
 virtues, and an officer of the moft diftiii- 
 
 guifhed merit. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNJOR. 
 
 H 4 CAPT.
 
 ( '04 ) 
 
 CAPT. JOHN WILLET PAYNE. 
 
 rpHE general merits of this excellent 
 young officer are fo fully eftabliflied on 
 the naval records, and his manners in pri- 
 vate life fo juftly the theme of panegyric, 
 that it is almoft impoffible to add more luflre 
 to his charader, than that which at prefent 
 irradiates it. 
 
 Captain Payne is brother to the accom- 
 plifhed Knight of the Bath of that name, 
 and was born in that genial country over a 
 part of which Sir Ralph prefided as gover- 
 nor, with fo much credit and reputation, for 
 feveral years. 
 
 The promiiing dawn of his early years 
 had fcarcely appeared, when Mr. Payne im- 
 merged as a Midfliipman on that ocean, 
 which engirted the pofleffions of his ancef- 
 tors, in the iflands fituated in the Weft India 
 feas ; his profeffional entree was aufpicious, 
 and his progrefs rapid. Having by the re- 
 gular
 
 ( 105 ) 
 
 g\ilar courfe of fervicc acquired the rank of 
 Poft- captain, this gallant officer eagerly em- 
 braced every opportunity of lignalizing him- 
 felf in that charaler, during the late war, 
 at the conclufion of which he returned to 
 Europe, more full of glory than of years. 
 
 The Prince of Wales very foon diiHn- 
 guifhed Captain Payne from the general clafs 
 of naval officers, and he has the honour to 
 (hare the flattering fmiles and confidence of 
 that illuftrious friend to merit. 
 
 When his Royal Highnefs and the Duke 
 of York lately paid Prince William a vifit 
 at Plymouth, Captain Payne was made 
 choice of, as the moll: agreeable naval atten* 
 dant on that vifitation ; upon which occafion 
 he acquitted himfelf in fuch a manner, as to 
 add greatly to the fatisfadlion and pleafure of 
 the Royal brothers. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 HON.
 
 ( to6 ) 
 
 HON. CAPT. BERKELEY. 
 
 'T^HE rays of intrinfic merit and the voice 
 of honeft fame, have fb thoroughly 
 cftablifhed the characStcr of this truly honour- 
 able officer, that this humble panegyric of an 
 humble pen can add no luftie thereto. This 
 is, therefore, meant as a tribute to the graces 
 and virtues of the mind. 
 
 Defcended from an illuftrious line of an- 
 ceftry, and allied to the firft families in the 
 Britifh realm ; prefumptive heir to an En- 
 glifli earldom and its concomitant blandifh- 
 ments of fortune, yet does this unafFefted 
 officer attend to the arduous duties of his 
 profeffion, with a degree of attention fcarcc- 
 ly to be paralleled. 
 
 Actuated by the moft zealous attachment 
 to the late Lord Keppel, he commenced his 
 military career, laft war, on board the Vic- 
 tory, under the flag of that Admiral, by 
 whom he was promoted to the command c^ 
 a firefhip. From that he was made Poft 
 
 into
 
 ( ic>7 ) 
 
 into the Veftal frigate, in which he failed 
 for Newfoundland, and cruized in the adja- 
 cent feas for fome time, with the mofl exem- 
 plary activity. 
 
 After Captain Berkeley's return to Eng- 
 land, he was appointed to the command of 
 His Majefty's lliip le Pegafe of 74 guns, 
 (which had been captured from the French) 
 and his condu<5l in that, as well as in every 
 other Ihip, marked this great and polite offi- 
 cer : qualifications not always united m 
 .iiaval characters. 
 
 He lately commanded the Magnificent of 
 74 guns, a guardfhip at Portfmouth. 
 
 Through the intercft of his brother the 
 Earl of Berkeley, and in confideration of 
 his own diftinguifhed merits, the freeholders 
 of Gloceflerfhire have eledled him knight 
 of the Ihire for that county. 
 
 Captain Berkeley has on every occafion, 
 iuf one,* difplayed a truly indepcndant, 
 
 * Captain Berkeley voted againll the navy on Mr. 
 Baftard's patriotic and conftitiational motion ; in con- 
 fequence of which he has irrecoverably loft his nau- 
 tical popularity. 
 
 generous
 
 ( '68 ) 
 
 generous fpirit. When he accompanied his 
 friend Admiral Keppel to dine with the cor- 
 ^poration of London, being called upon for a 
 toaft he gave the following, " A long pull ^ a 
 JirongpulU and a pull altogether^* which was 
 a very apt nautical allufion to the divifions 
 that reigned in the cabinet ; in a word, this 
 officer is not lefs an ornament to- the calm 
 fenfes of private life, than to thole ruder ones 
 which are incidental to the profefTion he 
 has made choice of. 
 
 On the death of Captain James Lutterell 
 his Grace of Richmond has appointed Cap- 
 tain Berkeley to the lucrative office of fur- 
 veyor general of the ordnance ; as his fame 
 now flands fair, let us hope this mark of 
 favour will not bias his mind in favour of 
 his * new relation's fortification fcheme ; 
 fb repugnant to the Intereft and profperity 
 of the British navy. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 * Captain Berkeley married his Grace's Niece, a 
 ihu^hter of Lord George Leno-x. 
 
 CAPTAIN
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN INGLEFIED. 
 
 JP O ST tot naufragia portum exprefies 
 more than can be faid in a thoufand 
 other words, and conveys in the ftrongeft 
 terms, the uncommon and imminent dan- 
 gers from which this officer fb very mira- 
 culoufly efcaped, when under the dreadful 
 neceffity of quitting His Majefty*s (hip the 
 Centaur. 
 
 The ftory of this wonderful interpofition 
 of Providence in favour of Captain Inglefield, 
 and thoie who were partakers of his efforts 
 to preferve life, if life was to be preferved, 
 has been fo much the topic, as well in ge- 
 neral converfation as in prints of various de- 
 nominations, that it would be a trefpafs on 
 the public to dwell upon the particular cir-^ 
 cumftances, which attend this melancholy 
 difafler. 
 
 Captain Inglefield*s fervices, at the com- 
 mencement of the late war, were moftly as 
 
 a Lieu*-
 
 ( MO ) 
 
 a Lieutenant In His Majefly's fhip the Covi' 
 rageux, at that time under the command of 
 Captain (now Lord) Hood. 
 
 In that fituation, and indeed in every fub- 
 fequent one, Mr. Inglefield is truly deferving 
 of general approbation, and is efteemed a 
 very able and diligent officer. 
 
 When England was again at peace. Cap- 
 tain Inglefield was appointed to the command 
 of a guardfliip at Chatham, in which he con- 
 tinued during the regular period of fervice, 
 as laid down by Lord Howe, when heentered 
 into office, but which regulation of his owriy 
 it was found coi:ivenient to break through by 
 -way of political arrangement. How difficult 
 a taik it is to drive a drone from the fweets 
 f a hive 1 
 
 Should Captain Inglefield*s deftiny lead 
 him again to tempt the perils of the deep, 
 it is fincerely hoped that future good fortune 
 will fully repay him for pail calamities. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 HON.
 
 Ill 
 
 HON. CAPT. RODNEY. 
 
 'T^HE gallant ftock from whom this young 
 branch fprung,. augurs more in his 
 favour than all the adions of his profeffional 
 life ; which in fhort have been but few. 
 
 Volatility of fpirit and the afpiring ardour 
 of youth, which often leads to vanity, are 
 very flrong traits in Captain Rodney's cha- 
 raler. Tempered, however, by the diiflates 
 of prudence and the experience of riper years, 
 he bids fair to tread in the glorious paths of 
 his noble father. 
 
 Captain Rodney entered into the naval 
 fervice under fuch favourable aufpices, and 
 was fo very fortunate in finding an afFelio- 
 jiate parent, chief commander of the fleet in 
 which it was his defliny to ferve, that he 
 has yet to learn, how widely different it is 
 to depend upon meritorious fervices, and on 
 the partial kindnefs of a father. This leflbn 
 Captain Rodney has yet to learo. 
 
 When
 
 ( ^ ) 
 
 When Admiral Rodney commanded the 
 Bntifh fquadron in the Weft Indies, he gave 
 his fbn the rank of a Poft-captain, by ap- 
 pointing him firft to the Sybil frigate, and 
 afterwards to the command of His Majefty's 
 ihip Anfon of 04 guns. 
 
 It is impoflible to form a decided opinion 
 of this yoimg officer's profeffional abilities ; 
 thus far, however, may be faid, that his pail 
 conduct is fufEcient to evince hinv a true 
 Rsdney I 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 GAP-
 
 ( "3 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN TROLLOPE. 
 
 nn H E R E is no opportunity which enables 
 an afpiring young officer to diflinguifli 
 himfelf in the navy, with fb much eclat y as 
 when his country is attacked by increafing 
 foes. It was at the period when the ungrate- 
 ful Republic of Holland, by her innimical 
 ats in favour of our nautical enemies render- 
 ed it neceflary for Great Britain to commence 
 hoftillties againft her, that CaptainJTrollope, 
 at that time commander of the Kite cutter, 
 ftood forth an aiStive champion in his coun- 
 try's caufe. His uncommon exertions in. 
 the channel of England occafioned the un- 
 Aveildy Dutchmen to croud our ports for 
 many fucceeding weeks, and the hovering 
 Kite fcarce ever faw one of them upon which 
 flie did not fix her fafcinating talons. 
 
 That pre-eminent firft Lord of the Admi- 
 ralty, the Earl of Sandwich, under whofe 
 I friend
 
 ( lU ) 
 
 friendly aufpices Mr. TroUope firfl made 
 his nautical entree, was fo fenfible of his 
 fervices, that his Lordfhip though fit to put 
 the Kite upon the eftablifhment of a floop of 
 war, by which this enterprifing officer ob- 
 tained the rank of Mailer and Commander. 
 His continued exertions fbon gained him the 
 fuperior rank of Poft- captain, and his con- 
 duct in that flation acquired him additio- 
 nal fame, to that he had gathered in fubor- 
 dinate characters. When commanding the 
 Rainbow of 44 guns, Captain Trollope had 
 the good fortune to capture the Hide French 
 ihip of 40 guns, which is now efteemed the 
 fined frigate in the Britifh navy, and is an 
 excellent pattern for our builders to copy 
 from, if the commifiioners of the navy 
 would be liberal enough to depart from the 
 pitiful iyftem, which has fo long difgraced 
 that felf-approving board. 
 
 After pairing a general and deferved eu- 
 
 logium on the military merits of Captain 
 
 Trollope, it is but juftice to declare, that 
 
 his manners in private life, are corrcfpon- 
 
 I dent
 
 ( "5 ) 
 
 <knt with the excellence of his public cha- 
 raler ; and that he diffUfes with liberality, 
 in the milder fcenes of retirement, the am- 
 ple fortune which he acquired by his pro- 
 feflional labours. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 I a CAPT.
 
 ( "6 ) 
 
 ^/CAPT. THOMAS BOSTON 
 
 TS an officer who bas always conducted 
 himfelf with fo much propriety, diligence, 
 and utility in every branch of fervice upon 
 which he hath been employed, that he has 
 fully merited the rank to which he hath at- 
 tained. 
 
 After pafling the inferior duties of his pro- 
 fcffion with credit, he was promoted to a 
 Lieutenancy, and in that quality rendered 
 himfelf extremely lerviceable on the imprefs 
 fervice. He commanded a tender for a con- 
 liderable time, and in confequence of his un- 
 common exertion was railed to the rank of 
 Captain. 
 
 When Commodore (now Admiral) El- 
 liot's broad pennant was on board the Edgar, 
 Captain Bofton had the honour to command 
 that fliip, and his condul upon that occafion 
 was of a-piece with his other fervices. 
 
 In
 
 ( "7 ) 
 
 In coii{equence of his knowledge of every 
 circumflance relative to the rendezvoules, 
 eftablifhed for the railing of feamen, Captain 
 Bofton was appointed to accompany Vice- 
 Admiral Milbanke, on his vifitation to the re- 
 gulating officers, in order to look into their 
 condu6l. 
 
 He was afterwards appointed to the com- 
 mand of His Majefly's fhip Latona, in which 
 he remained a confiderable time on the Me- 
 diterranean ftation, and has fince retired to 
 the fcenes of private life with an unblemifhed 
 pharadter. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 CAPT.
 
 ( "8 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN THORNBROUGH, 
 
 ''T^ O O much praife cannot be beftowed on 
 this very brave and alive officer. His 
 name is a tower of ftrength fupported by the 
 firm bafis of praife- worthy alions. 
 
 Captain Thornbrough's gallantry in North 
 America gained him very great credit, and 
 mfome meajiire juflifies his having command- 
 ed the fineft frigate in the Britifh fervice, 
 (the Hebe) during the almoft unexampled 
 continuance of more than fix years ! 
 
 This circumftance may be accounted for 
 from the mighty Commodore (now Admi- 
 ral) Gower having hoifled his broad pennant 
 in the Hebe, when he made the tour of the 
 coafis with Prince William Heqry on board 
 as third Lieutenant of that fhip. 
 
 After the Commodore had ftruck his broad 
 pennant, the Prince ftill continued in the 
 ijjme ftation under Captain Thornbrough, 
 
 VAti^
 
 ( "9 ) 
 
 until he was appointed to the command of 
 his Majefty's fhip the Pegafus. 
 
 The Hebe has proved a moft fuccefsful 
 cruizer againfl the fmuggiers, owing to 
 the uncommon exertions of her g-allant com- 
 mander; it is, however, extremely hard that 
 other meritorious officers with large families 
 fhould be fufFered to lead inactive lives in 
 unprofitable obfcurity. 
 
 It is on the other hand pleafing to refleifl 
 that Captain Thornbrough's merits have 
 been fo fully rewarded, and that there is one 
 inftance of the kind to be adduced, in favour 
 of Lord Howe and the miferable board of 
 Admiralty, he has left to patch up his nume- 
 rous blunders, preparatory to the difmiffion 
 of the ignorant locufts that compofe it. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
 I 4 CAPT.
 
 ( 1^0 ) 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE CAMPBELI, 
 
 T S a moil accomplifhed officer, and calcu- 
 lated to infpire foreign nations with a 
 more elevated opinion than they at prefent 
 entertain of the politenefs of the comman-. 
 ders of His Majefly's (hips. 
 
 It will be faid, that politenefs is a qualifi- 
 cation not neceflary in the formation of a 
 nautical character, in contradiction to which 
 it may be argued, that it would be mpre to. 
 the honour of the Britifh nation to imitate 
 the French in that refpeft, than in forming 
 fignals of manoeuvre J which only, t^d to 
 damp the ardour of Engliih feamen. 
 
 Captain Campbell had not any opportunity 
 of fignalizing himfelf in. any part of the late 
 war. He commanded the Aurora frigate, 
 which was conftantly employed in convoy- 
 ing merchant fhips round the coaft of Eng- 
 land, Wales, and fometimes Ireland. This 
 frigate was a wretched going fhip, by no 
 
 means
 
 ( "' ) 
 
 means fuited to the ardour of fo fpirlted an 
 pfficer as Captain Campbell, whofe zeal for 
 the honour of the fervice merited greater 
 encouragement. 
 
 Soon after the eftablifhment of peace Cap- 
 tain Campbell was appointed to the com- 
 mand of the Orpheus, a very fine frigate, 
 which has been ever fince employed on the 
 Mediterranean flation, and in which he has 
 acquired very great credit among the ftates 
 pf Italy, and even among thofe of Barbary. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR, 
 
 HON.
 
 ( I" ) 
 
 HON. CAPT. DE COURCY. 
 
 'T^HIS officer is a true de Courcy. He 
 has fhown himfelf in every refpeft a 
 defcendant of the great Kiiifale, whofe at- 
 chievements were fuch, as to obtain for him 
 and his heirs the extraordinary privilege, of 
 being covered in the prefence of the Mo- 
 narchs of England. 
 
 Captain de Courcy has been regularly 
 bred to the navy, and after the ufual gra- 
 dations of fervice was made Poft into the 
 Europa of 50 guns, on the occalion of the 
 late Vice Admiral Gambier's flag; beins 
 hoifted on board that fhip, as Commander 
 in Chief of His Majefly's fhips employed on 
 the Jamaica ftation. 
 
 No opportunity offered, to give Captain 
 de Courcy an opportunity of difplaying his 
 native gallantry, but future times may prove 
 the means of recording his name.
 
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 He now commands the Hyaena, a frigate 
 which is ftationed on the coafts of Ireland, 
 to prevent illicit trade ; it would, however, 
 have been much more to the credit of fb 
 young an officer, had he fought for employ- 
 ment on more diftant fervice. 
 
 To be plain Lord Kinfale has a penfion 
 what then mufl be the fituation of a younger 
 brother ? 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR, 
 
 CAP-.
 
 ( '24 ) 
 
 CAPTAIN BENTINCK. 
 
 TXTHEN foreigners of illuftrious defcent 
 condefcend to become volunteers iu 
 the naval fervice of Great Britaip, and forego 
 the eafe and comforts attendant on their exai- 
 ted birth, to mingle with the common mafs 
 of inferior officers ; they affuredly raife that 
 fervice high in the eftimation of the world, 
 and fhow the nobility of England an exam^ 
 pie worthy of imitation. 
 
 Such is the example which Captain (or 
 more properly fpeaking Count) Bentinck, 
 now offers to the riling generation of Britifli 
 Patricians. 
 
 Ennobled by birth, aggrandized by^ con- 
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 this excellent young man facrificed them all 
 in early years, regardlefs of wealth or eafe,^ 
 to a nation which he had been taught to look, 
 up to with veneration and refpel^ 
 
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 Poffefltd of every poffible pcrfbnal accom- 
 plifhment, and allied by the neareft ties 
 of blood to the noble houfe of Portland, he 
 had very juft right to expert far more than 
 .preferment. He v^^as entitled to be folicited 
 to take the command of a Britifh frigate : 
 inftcad of which this young nobleman was 
 made Poft into a flag fhip deftined for the 
 Halifax ftation, and in order to provide for 
 a friend of the Commodore's, he found him- 
 felf {o very much under rejlridiions limilar 
 to thofe which lb recently difg raced the Bri- 
 tifh legiflature ; and which time will never 
 efface, that his feelings could not brook it, 
 and he returned to England in dignified dif- 
 guft. 
 
 For the honour of the Britifh nation, it is 
 
 hoped that. Captain Bentinck will meet with 
 
 that encouragement to which he has fo jufi: 
 
 a claim. 
 
 NAUTICUS JUNIOR. 
 
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