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Two very well-known singers. There are probably many still with us who
have heard Braham—he did not retire finally till 1852—if only in ‘The
Bay of Biscay.’ Incledon, who died in 1826, served, when a very young
man, as an ordinary seaman on board the Formidable, Rodney’s flagship
in the West Indies. According to the tradition still living 50 or 60
years ago, his talent was found out, and he used to be sent for, first
to the ward room and afterwards to the admiral’s cabin, to sing after
dinner; and when the ship paid off, he came on shore provided with
letters of introduction which made the rest of his way easy. The
details of his service in the navy, as given in the _D.N.B._, are
certainly erroneous. The Formidable did not go to the West Indies till
1782; and Cleland did not then command her.

Footnote 120:

Rear-admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian. See _D.N.B._

Footnote 121:

So in MS., evidently a slip for ‘hawse.’

Footnote 122:

The tack hauled out only two thirds of the length of the jib-boom.
_Cf._ D’Arcy Lever’s _Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor_ (1808), p. 84
and fig. 450. Setting the jib in this way seems to have gone out of
use in the navy with the introduction of flying jibs.

Footnote 123:

_Sc._ had the swell on the bow.

Footnote 124:

This was evidently written with very imperfect knowledge of the facts
in either case. From the naval point of view, the only good account of
this expedition to Bantry Bay is that contributed by Admiral Colomb to
the _Journal of the R.U.S. Institution_, xxxvi. 17 (Jan. 1892).

Footnote 125:

Possibly; but on joining the Hind, his name was entered John Timothy
Coghlan in the pay-book.

Footnote 126:

Captain Fanshawe commanded the Monmouth in Byron’s action at Grenada,
July 6, 1779, and the Namur on April 12, 1782. He was for many years
resident commissioner at Plymouth. _Cf._ _N.R.S._ vols. xii., xix. and
xxiv.

Footnote 127:

This power of committing for contempt belongs inherently to a court
martial, as a court of record, though it is now seldom, if ever,
called on to exercise it (Thring’s _Criminal Law of the Navy_, 2nd
edit., p. 103).

Footnote 128:

This has no meaning, unless we can suppose ‘Apollo’ to have been
written inadvertently for ‘Favorite.’

Footnote 129:

On the part of the French this was a very old contention; sometimes,
as here, with a view to obtaining better treatment as prisoners; at
other times, with a view to being exchanged on more favourable terms.
_Cf._ Laughton’s _Studies in Naval History_, pp. 258–9.

Footnote 130:

One of the Dutch ships taken at the Cape of Good Hope in August 1796.

Footnote 131:

Joseph Peyton; admiral, June 1, 1795.

Footnote 132:

Taken possession of in Cork Harbour, Aug. 22, 1795.

Footnote 133:

James Hardy, of the Dictator.

Footnote 134:

A similar method of beautifying a ship fitting out was the rule rather
than the exception till long after Gardner’s time.

Footnote 135:

In 1852 the crew of a whaler in Baffin’s Bay mutinied and struck work,
till a pan of burning sulphur ‘cleared lower deck.’

Footnote 136:

Taken at Camperdown.

Footnote 137:

Taken at the Cape.

Footnote 138:

September 28.

Footnote 139:

October 9. _Cf._ _D.N.B._

Footnote 140:

Castlereagh was at this time lieutenant-colonel of the Londonderry
militia and acting chief secretary for Ireland. The reference would
seem to be to the discreditable conduct of the militia in ‘the race of
Castlebar,’ in the previous year. Castlereagh, of course, had nothing
directly to do with it.

Footnote 141:

Gardner’s memory is here in fault. The court martial on Brice (for
‘having at different times uttered words of sedition and mutiny ...
and for behaving in a scandalous manner unbecoming the character of an
officer and a gentleman’) was held on board the Blonde on 12, 13 June
1798; that on Tripp, on 6–11 Dec. 1799, was held on board the Pallas.

Footnote 142:

October 14, 1799.

Footnote 143:

Sir John Fielding, brother of the better-known Henry Fielding the
novelist, was blind from his birth. It was said that he knew 3,000
thieves by their voice.

Footnote 144:

Nag.

Footnote 145:

Milk-pails.

Footnote 146:

The word is ‘piseachbuidhe,’ porridge made of Indian meal. A hundred
years ago, possibly peas pudding.

Footnote 147:

Potatoes stewed in butter, with cabbage or onions.

Footnote 148:

Are we to understand that Huish also was well up in his Virgil, if
only in Dryden’s version? Perhaps rather the writer thought this was
what he ought to have said.

Footnote 149:

Attention is called by Ralfe (_Naval Biography_, ii. 286) to the
remarkable fact that a fleet of 28 ships of the line should be under
the command of a rear-admiral.

Footnote 150:

The captains’ names, left blank in the MS., are filled in from
Schomberg; but it should be noted that when rapid changes are being
made, it is frequently difficult to say who commanded a ship at a
particular time. Some of the names given by Gardner do not agree with
Schomberg’s lists.

Footnote 151:

Bonetta sloop, 25th October, 1801.—James, iii. 482.

Footnote 152:

A temperature so stated has no meaning. 112° is far above the shade
temperature of Jamaica, and below the temperature in the sun. But it
seems that these parties were working during the heat of the day.

Footnote 153:

Off Monte Christo, 20–21 March 1780. See Beatson, v. 96; Chevalier, i.
193.

Footnote 154:

When writing this, Gardner seems to have forgotten that eight years
before she had carried her 74 guns with some credit in the fleet under
Lord Howe.

Footnote 155:

Rear-Admiral Robert Montagu.

Footnote 156:

15th September, 1825. See _Times_ of 16th September and following
days.

Footnote 157:

It is easy to believe that the Goliath’s officers did not consider
this man of ‘many vices’ a desirable passenger, even in the gun room;
but as he had not been found out by a court martial, it cannot but
seem curious now, that he was not ordered a passage in the mess of his
rank.

Footnote 158:

1831. _Cf._ Marshall, ii. 848, 882.

Footnote 159:

Captain, 1781; first commissioner of transport, 1796; knighted, 1804;
baronet, 1809; died, 1823.

Footnote 160:

See Appendix, p. 265.

Footnote 161:

Gardner’s memory must here have been playing him false. The distance
from Fairlight to Boulogne and the adjacent coast is fully 35 miles:
the camp had been broken up in the previous September, and the
soldiers that had formed it were far away, at Vienna or its
neighbourhood; as Gardner, at the time, must have known.

Footnote 162:

We are so accustomed to talk of ‘Arry as a product of the late
nineteenth century, railways and cheap return tickets, that it is
neither uninteresting nor socially unimportant to note that he existed
in 1806. Increase of population and excursion tickets have merely
swelled his numbers.

Footnote 163:

There is some confusion here. Wadeson and Parr were both assistant
masters when Sumner died suddenly in September, 1771. Wadeson was
certainly not offered the succession, and his name does not seem to
have been officially mentioned in connection with it. On the other
hand, Parr’s claims were strongly urged, and the refusal of the
Governors to appoint him caused a violent ‘meeting’ among the boys. It
is a very strange story, told at length in Johnstone, _Works of Samuel
Parr_, i. 55 _seq._; Thornton, _Harrow School and its Surroundings_,
Chap. viii.; _Report on the MSS. of Lady Du Cane_ (_Hist. MSS.
Comm._), 229 _seq._

Footnote 164:

At this time this was still the usual form of subscription from a
superior, whether social—as a son of the king—or official, as the navy
board (collectively)—to an inferior. Naval officers, at any rate, will
scarcely need to be reminded of the story of the eccentric Sir John
Phillimore (_cf._ _D.N.B._) who signed a letter to the navy board in
the same way; and on being censured for so doing, signed his reply ‘No
longer your affectionate friend.’

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