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

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.’

136. Taken at Camperdown.

137. Taken at the Cape.

139. October 9. Cf. D.N.B.

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.

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.

142. October 14, 1799.

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.

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

147. Potatoes stewed in butter, with cabbage or onions.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

155. Rear-Admiral Robert Montagu.

156. 15th September, 1825. See Times of 16th September and following days.

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.

158. 1831. Cf. Marshall, ii. 848, 882.

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

160. See Appendix, p. 265.

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.

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.

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.

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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