If it happens that a Ship is to be brought up in a place where there is not sufficient room to tend her, reduce her headway as much as possible before she comes to her anchoring birth, so that a less scope of cable will bring her up.-steel's Practice of Working Ships.

JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST. VINCENT, *

KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH,

AND ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON.

Then you fill'd

The air with shouts of joy, and did proclaim,

When Hope had left them, and grim-look'd Despair
Hover'd with sail-stretch'd wings over their heads,

To me, as to the Neptune of the Sea,

They ow'd the restitution of their goods,

Their lives and liberties.

MASSINGER.

IT is difficult to pourtray with truth the characters of

living persons. They may be compared to pictures drawn from the life, in which every feature must be somewhat heightened to obtain the reputation of similitude. The exaggeration of beauties and of deformities are, it is true, equally and alternately censured by friends and enemies; but if the likeness were exactly correct, it would be admired by

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none. The artist prefers, therefore, the approbation of half the world to the censure, or at least the cold neglect, of the whole; and sacrifices the fidelity of his portrait to the incorrigible passions and inveterate prejudices of partial spectators. Time however, the great corrector of all faults, softens down those asperities which the pencil had left; spreads a sober tint over the brilliant lights, and mellows the shadows to a milder hue. A cool recollection of the original, and the comparison with other representations of the same object, aid us still further in the discovery of the truth, and the whole is at length exhibited to posterity with a degree of correctness which is almost always denied to contemporaries.

The noble person of whom we are to speak is a striking instance, perhaps, of the justice of these remarks. As an officer, he has been charged with too strict an adherence to that steady discipline which the wisdom of our forefathers, attentive to the public good, ordained in naval regulations, and from which a mistaken spirit of kindness in our time has, on some occasions, unseasonably relaxed: as a senator, he has been censured for what is called an uncertainty of political condu&t; in other words, for asserting, in his parliamentary life, an upright and dignified independence, equally unbending to Ministry and Opposition, equally inaccessible by interest or adulation as a man, he has been said to maintain a gravity of deportment bordering on reserve and severity, because he has too much feeling, and too much sincerity to waste on knaves and fools those honest smiles, and that freedom of conversation, to which his friends, to whom he never denies them, have an exclusive right. Time will place these circumstances of character in a proper point of view; while he who justly experiences the love and esteem of all who know him, joined to the gratitude of a nation, need not complain that he has not his share of this world's charities.

His Lordship is the descendant of an ancient and truly respectable family, settled in the county of Stafford : being the second and youngest son of Swynfen Jervis, Esq. Barrister at Law, some time Counsel to the Board of Admiralty, and

YBA