After having been a short time on half-pay, he was commissioned as third captain of Greenwich Hospital, in the room of the late Captain Allwright; and, in 1805, on the death of Sir R. Pearson, he became second captain, and a director of the chest of Greenwich.

Captain Ellison has, ever since, resided in that agreeable situation; and that he may long continue there, is the hearty wish of all his old shipmates and friends.

NAVAL ANECDOTES,

COMMERCIAL HINTS, RECOLLECTIONS, &c.

NANTES IN GURGITE VASTO.

CHARACTER OF ENGLISH SEAMEN.

THE following amusing character of our brave tars is copied

from a work called "Letters on England;" said to be translated from the Spanish, but rather believed to be the production of Mr. Southey, the poet :

"Voltaire has the merit of having discovered the physical cause of the superiority of the English at sea. The natives of the south of Europe navigate smooth seas; those of the north are frozen up during the winter; but the English seas are navigated in long dark stormy nights, when nothing but great skill, and incessant exertion, can preserve the vessel. Hence arises a degree of confidence in their sailors, which is almost incredible; the greater the danger, the greater is the activity. Instead of shrinking from toil, every man is at his post. Having no faith in miracles for their deliverance, they almost work miracles to deliver themselves; and, instead of preparing for death, strain every sinew to avoid it. Added to this confidence, they have also in war that which arises from constant success. The English sailor feels that he is master of the sea. Whatever he sees, is to do him homage. He is always on the look-out, not with the fear of an enemy before his eyes, but like a strong pirate, with the hope of gain; and when going into action with an equal, or even a superior force, he calculates his profits as certainly as if the enemy were already taken. "There," said the master of a frigate, when the captain did not

choose to engage a superior French force, because he had a convoy in charge-"there," said he, with a groan, "there's seven hundred pounds lost to me for ever." As for fear, it is not in their nature. One of these men went to see a juggler exhibit his tricks; there happened to be a quantity of gunpowder in the apartment underneath, which took fire, and blew up the house. The sailor was thrown into a garden behind, where he fell without being hurt. He stretched his arms and legs, got up, shook himself, rubbed his eyes, and then cried out (conceiving what had happened to be only a part of the performance, and perfectly willing to go through the whole), "D-n the fellow, I wonder what the devil he will do next."

LORD NELSON'S MONUMENT, AT GLASGOW.

Inscription for the Column erected to the Memory of Lord NELSON, by the City of Glasgow.

ΤΟ

NELSON,

The Scourge of France,

The Avenger of his Country and of Europe;
who, wielding the Naval Thunders of the

EMPIRE,

poured Destruction on the terrified Foe
at the blazing Shores

of ABOUKIR, COPENHAGEN,

and

TRAFALFAR.

Covered with Glory and Renown,
in the Hour of Victory,

THE HERO FELL,

Embalmed with the Tears, and entombed in the Hearts
OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE.

To perpetuate to distant Ages

the Deeds and the Memory
of this gallant
SEAMAN,

and to stimulate Posterity to emulate his Actions,

THE CITIZENS OF GLASGOW

erccted this Column,

A. D. 1807.

ANECDOTE OF ADMIRAL DOUGLAS.

DURING the last disgraceful mutiny in the navy, the admiral commanded the Stately, of 64 guns; and being on shore, dining with Governor Brook, at St. Helena, his first officer told him, that a ship had arrived from England, and told the Stately of the mutiny, and that his men had come and demanded the command of the ship, and were then in mutiny. The admiral received the intelligence very coolly, and as the ship was under the guns of the forts, and the sails unbent, he said to the governor, "I will go immediately on board, and if in fifteen minutes after I am in the ship they do not return to their duty, you will fire on her; for better that I go down with the ship than the men command her." This spirited determination he made known to the men, and added, if the ringleaders were not given up unconditionally, they knew what they were to expect. The fifteen minutes expired, and the fort began to fire, and thus ended the mutiny in those seas, by the intrepid conduct of one man.-The ringleaders were given up, and two or three of them hanged.

ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN ADMIRAL, SINIAVIN.

About the

THIS officer is of one of the first families in Russia. year 1783, being then a youth, he was sent to England by the Russian court, who obtained permission from the British government for his being admitted a volunteer in our navy. He was accordingly, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, received on board the Leander, of 50 guns, then destined for the Halifax station, in America, where he served about three years. He was afterwards employed for nearly the same time in the Mediterranean, as a volunteer midshipman, on board the Pearl frigate, then commanded by the late Honourable Seymour Finch, brother to the Earl of Aylesford, which ship he quitted at Smyrna, in 1789, in order to render to his own country the benefit of that knowledge and experience he had acquired from us, Russia being then engaged in a war with the Turks, against whom he seemed, by nature, to be a zealous adversary. During the last war he served, and held the rank of a post captain in the Russian navy, and was one of their fleet that wintered in the Medway; but on that fleet being ordered home, and the Emperor Paul entering into the views of Buonaparte, he retired, and continued in retirement until Russia again made common cause with this country,

NAUTICAL ANECDOTE.

WHEN the Count de Lille was landed at Yarmouth, from the Freya, Swedish frigate, he was rowed on shore by British sailors; and the count, grateful for the particular attention shewn him, left a purse of fifteen guincas, for the tars to drink his health. On the matter being explained to them, not one of them would touch a farthing, but immediately transmitted a letter to Admiral Russell, expressive of their sentiments on the occasion, which is truly characteristic of British seamen. The following is a literal copy, and is said to have been read by the count with particular delight:

"PLEASE YOUR HONOUR,

Majestic, 6th day of Nov. 1807.

"We holded a talk about that there 151. that was sent us, and hope no offence, your honour. We dont like to take it, because as how we knows fast enuff that it was the true King of France that went with your honour in the boat, and that he and our own noble king, God bless em both, and give every one his right, is good friends now; and besides that your honour gived a order long ago, not to take no money from nobody, and we never did take none, and Mr. Leneve that steered your honour and that there king, says he won't have no hand in it, and so does Andrew Young, the proper coxen; and we hopes nó offence, so we all, one and all, begs not to take it at all. So no more at present from your honour's dutiful servants,

ON the 8th of January, Sir Home Popham and Sir John Stuart were presented with the elegant swords voted to them by the corporation of London. They were first presented, at Merchant Taylors' Hall, with the freedom of that company; after which they proceeded to Guildhall, and were presented to the Lord Mayor. They were accompanied by Lord Gambier and Sir Edward Hamilton.

On presenting the sword to Sir John Stuart, the victor of Maida, the chairman of the city delivered a handsome and appropriate speech; after which, he addressed Sir Home Popham as follows:

"Sir Home Popham, I give you joy; and in the name of the Lord Mav. Chron. Wof. XIX.

Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, assembled, return you thanks for your gallant conduct and important services in the capture of Buenos Ayres, at once opening a new source of commerce to the manufactories of Great Britain, and depriving her enemy of one of the richest and most extensive colonies in her possession. And, by an unanimous resolution of the said court, I present you with a sword, as a testimony of the high esteem which it entertains of your very meritorious conduct.

"Sir,-When the news arrived of your achievement in South America, it was received by the nation with an ecstacy of joy: the artificer saw an increase of demand for the productions of his ingenuity; the merchant began to extend his commercial views; and every philanthropist most rapturously exclaimed with the poet —

Oh, stretch thy reign, fair peace, from shore to shore,

Till conquest cease, and slavery be no more;

Till the proud Indians, in their native groves,

Reap their own fruits, and woo their sable loves;
Peru once more a race of kings behold,
Another Mexico adorn'd with gold.

"Such, sir, were the delightful visions in which the nation indulged, on the result of a plan suggested by the wisdom of that great statesman, whose loss we deeply feel, and whose death we still deplore, and carried into effect by the prowess of yourself and your gallant associates in arms.

"The scene, it must be confessed, is now most lamentably changed;, yet, though the nation has looked in vain for that extension of commerce, and that diffusion of British civilization, in the hopes of which she had so fondly indulged herself, she will ever regard the capture of Buenos Ayres, both from the ability with which it was planned, and from the energy and intrepidity with which it was effected, as an action worthy of being recorded in the brightest page of her history.

cause

Gentlemen,-You have given ample proofs of your zeal in the cau of your country, and of your abilities to render it the most essential services; the same cause has still further claims upon your exertions; the foe with whom we have to contend has declared his determination to deprive us of our most valuable rights, and to sink us below the level of an independent nation.-But I trust such threats are vain: you, gentlemen, are sensible that when a nation has lost her honour she has little else worth preserving. You will convince our inveterate enemy, that however desirous your country may be to obtain a peace, she can never be forced to accept such a peace as shall either diminish her rights or tarnish her glory.” Sir Home Popham replied in the following terms:

Sir,-In receiving this sword from you, I cannot refrain from expressing my regret at the trouble occasioned by the principle upon which it was originally voted me being questioned by an honourable member of your court: and although I feel extremely gratified at that principle being publicly, and almost unanimously recognized, yet I cannot help regretting, that the service for which the sword was given, did not meet the approbation of his majesty's late government; and although I was not fortunate