Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St. Vincent, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1838 |
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Page 368 - Lieutenant and you are your self to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from time to time receive from Me or...
Page 308 - If you will, my good lord, • bring a bill into Parliament to disqualify any officer under the ' rank of Rear-Admiral to sit in the House of Commons, the ' Navy may be preserved; but while a little, drunken, worthless, ' jackanapes is permitted to hold the seditious language he has ' done, in the presence of. flag-officers of rank, you will require a ' man of greater health and vigour than I possess to command
Page 268 - Their next achievement was to send one of the ablest men who ever commanded an army into the centre of Spain, unprovided with every requisite for such a dangerous march. If Sir John Moore had not acted according to his own...
Page 17 - ... Captains ; and Captain Bathurst has continued in the command of the Ville de Paris, and will either bring her, or the Princess Royal, down to Gibraltar when the service permits, to convey me to England, should I recover. In the state I am, Captain Grey is essentially necessary to my comfort, and I hope your Lordship will approve of his accompanying me. The Brest squadron had such a game to play at Malta and Sicily...
Page 369 - Given under our hands and the seal of the office of Admiralty, this 17th of July 1794, in the 34th year of his Majesty's reign.
Page 368 - Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, and of the lord high admiral of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral...
Page 387 - ... and came up again. Soon after, they called from the forecastle that the Frenchman was sinking ; at which the men started up and gave three cheers. I saw the French ship dismasted, and on her broadside, but in an instant she was clouded with smoke, and I do not know whether she sunk or not. All the ships in our neighbourhood were dismasted, and are taken, except the French Admiral, who was driven out of the line by Lord Howe, and saved himself by flight.
Page 281 - Viscount de Grenier. In truth, it would be difficult for the ablest seaman and tactician to write upon the subject without running into one or all the French authors. Inclosed your Lordship will receive the best judgment I can form on the claim Mr. Clark has of any merit in the battles of the 1st June, and the attempts on the preceding days by Lord Howe, the battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar : that fought off Cape St. Vincent is totally out of the question.
Page 379 - August, 1812 ; the first stone deposited on the 12th of the same month ; and, on the 31st March, 1813, the Breakwater made its first appearance above the surface of the Sound, at low water of the spring-tide. The...
Page 73 - ... inquiry into the cause and circumstances of the loss of that sloop had taken place, it was impossible for the Board, consistently with its usual forms, to mark its approbation of his Lordship's conduct. Lord Cochrane was promoted to the rank of post captain on the 8th of August, the day on which the sentence of acquittal for the loss of the Speedy was received — which was all that could under existing circumstances be done.