Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, 第 4 卷R. Faulder, 1796 |
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... Royal Anne galley , a frigate attached to the fquadron under admiral Aylmer , which convoyed the king to Holland . Few men who have lived to attain the very high rank in the fervice which this gentleman afterwards very defervedly ...
... Royal Anne galley , a frigate attached to the fquadron under admiral Aylmer , which convoyed the king to Holland . Few men who have lived to attain the very high rank in the fervice which this gentleman afterwards very defervedly ...
第 19 頁
... Royal Ann galley . No other mention is made of him till after the acceffion of George the First ; a confiderable difficulty then arifes , there hav- ing been two naval commanders of the fame name , and no difcrimination being made in ...
... Royal Ann galley . No other mention is made of him till after the acceffion of George the First ; a confiderable difficulty then arifes , there hav- ing been two naval commanders of the fame name , and no difcrimination being made in ...
第 49 頁
... Royal , a fecond rate . In this command he died on the 11th of February 1743 . OWEN , William , was , on the 1st of January , appointed captain of the Solebay . We have nothing to add relative to this gentleman , but that he died in ...
... Royal , a fecond rate . In this command he died on the 11th of February 1743 . OWEN , William , was , on the 1st of January , appointed captain of the Solebay . We have nothing to add relative to this gentleman , but that he died in ...
第 50 頁
... Royal , a fecond rate . On the 15th of July 1747 , he was put on the fuperannu- ated lift with the rank and half pay of a rear - admiral ; a comfortable and honourable retirement , which he enjoyed till his death , on the 28th of ...
... Royal , a fecond rate . On the 15th of July 1747 , he was put on the fuperannu- ated lift with the rank and half pay of a rear - admiral ; a comfortable and honourable retirement , which he enjoyed till his death , on the 28th of ...
第 51 頁
... royal ftandard , before he landed . This is the only occafion on which he appears in the cha- racter of a naval officer ; for quitting that line of fervice immediately after receiving the above honour , he was appointed gentleman ...
... royal ftandard , before he landed . This is the only occafion on which he appears in the cha- racter of a naval officer ; for quitting that line of fervice immediately after receiving the above honour , he was appointed gentleman ...
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第 172 頁 - Majefty's honour, and my country's fervice. I am forry that my endeavours were not attended with more fuccefs, and that the armament under my command proved too weak to fucceed in an expedition of fuch moment. Truth has prevailed over calumny and falfehood, and juftice has wiped off the ignominious ftain of my fuppoled want of perfonal courage, or difaffeftion.
第 333 頁 - Thus beloved and revered, amiable in private life as illustrious in public, this gallant and profitable servant of his country, when he was beginning to reap the harvest of his toils and dangers, in the full meridian of years and glory, after having been providentially...
第 338 頁 - Generalship of the Marines, together with his rank in the navy, at the King's feet, entreating him to take both away, if they could forward his service...
第 218 頁 - Joseph, and to two ships that guarded the mouth of the harbour, which he sustained for many hours that day, and part of the next, with uncommon intrepidity. As he was giving his...
第 166 頁 - Article of War, part of which he falls under, and which admits of no mitigation, even if the crime should be committed by an error in judgment only ; and therefore, for our own consciences ' sakes, as well as in justice to the prisoner, we pray your Lordships, in the most earnest manner, to recommend him to his Majesty's clemency.
第 236 頁 - George the second, intituled, "an act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants and "others therein mentioned as are settled or shall settle in any of his " Majesty's Colonies in America...
第 147 頁 - ... what batteries or guns might be placed to prevent our having any communication with the Castle, falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and not at all to judge of their force more than by their numbers, which were...
第 150 頁 - three feet to our one, and therefore have the choice " how they will engage us, or if they will at all, and...
第 173 頁 - ... be on their fide, God forgive them, as I do ; and may the diftrefs of their minds, and uneafinefs of their confciences, which in juftice to me they have reprefented, be relieved and fubfide as my refentment has done. The Supreme Judge lees all hearts and motives, and to him I muft fubmit the juftice of my caufe.
第 172 頁 - I know my own innocence, and am conscious that no part of my country's misfortunes can be owing to me.