Here he arrived just time enough to have a small rencontre with the Count de Grasse, similarly employed toward the French fleet under Bouille; to follow it to America and back again; and after endeavouring to save the island of St. Kitt, to contribute chiefly to the glorious victory of the 12th of April over the whole, and, being appointed to pursue the flying enemy, captured four or five. He was rewarded with the Peerage of Ireland, and an established fame.

Peace soon restationed him as Port Admiral at Portsmouth; and sent him to Parliament as representative of Westminster; in the memorable 1784. In 1788 he became a Lord of the Admiralty.

Another rupture threatening with Spain, he was appointed as before, but as before, it subsided, and he returned. The revolutionary war, however, soon furnished him with the occasion we at present record. Vice Admiral of the Red, he proceeded with a fleet to the Mediterranean, having his flag in the Victory; and produced the temporary surrender of Toulon; and that of Calvi, chief port of Corsica, which under the administration of the celebrated Paoli, and the present Lord Minto, temporarily became annexed to the British crown.

Lord Hood in 1796, succeeded Sir Hugh Palliser as Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and in the following year was made an English Viscount, succeeding in course progressively toward the highest station in the Navy. His Lordship died but recently at a very advanced age.

CAPTURE OF THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES OF THE ENEMY, BY GEN. SIR CHARLES, (afterwards Earl) GREY, AND VICE ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JERVIS, K. B. (afterwards Earl St. Vincent.)

In common with other wars, upon the commencement of that of the French Revolution, it became necessary to deprive the enemy of these useful ornaments, and essential tributaries to his power.

In this grand conjunct expedition, the land forces appear more prominent than before; if not in fact greatly superseding the navy. Their operations were not merely extensive, but they were of considerable duration; and in respect to the persons employed in them, most eminent. Here his Royal Highness Prince Edward present Duke of Kent and Strathern, after completing his eminent military education in Germany, and commanding a regiment at Gibraltar and thence to America, performed his noviciate against the public enemy, with an activity that appears every

where marked in the annals of his commanders both by land and sea.

Prescott,

Here Lieutenant General Major General Dundas, Colonel Campbell of the 9th foot, who was killed in heading an important charge, Colonel Symes, Lieutenant Colonel (since General Sir Eyre) Coote, Lieutenant Colonel (since General Sir John) Cradock, Colonel (afterwards Lieutenant General) Sir W. Myers, Major (since General Sir Thomas) Maitland, and many others whose names have since had ample space in the roll of history, were incipiently employed with the highest credit to themselves, and utility to the service.

This is the outline, in point of character, of a glowing picture to be interestingly, though often painfully, filled up by the veteran officers of that land and sea army which subsequently performed such wonders in this unexampled war.

In a despatch received by the Admiralty on the 21st of May from Sir John Jervis, the Admiral expressed his satisfaction in

informing it of the entire reduction of the French islands in these seas; so that a most favourable opportunity offered in the distribution of honours for success in an object of such magnitude. '

The thanks were accordingly voted to the chiefs in command of the navy and army with their immediate subordinates, and the following answers returned ;

I There is something very beautiful in the unaffected compliments paid to each other in their despatches by the naval and military commanders in chief. In a letter of March 16, from the Camp before Bourbon, Sir Charles Grey states that "Admiral Sir John Jervis's professional knowledge never shone with more lustre, nor ever was exceeded. Nor can I sufficiently extol the promptness with which he has aided the land forces on every occasion, his unremitting exertions," &c. And the General attributes the state of the siege to the exertions of the officers and seamen of the Navy, who brought the cannon, mortars, &c. several miles, to heights where it appeared impossi ble.

Sir John Jervis in his final dispatch of April 23 off Basseterre, Guadaloupe, agreeably remarks, that the Navy and Army so united, no difficulty nor danger arrested their career of glory for an instant. From the General, and other officers of the Army with whom I had frequent occasion to transact business, I never experienced an unpleasant item, and I found in Colonel SYMES, the Quarter Master General, resources, zeal, and ability superior to every obstacle which presented itself."

To enumerate the well deserved praise of subordinate officers who afterwards highly distinguished themselves would exceed our plan as well as boundaries. They were however frequent, and energetic; such as in the assault on Bellegarde's Camp, which it is said Lieutenant

Boyne, of Martinique, 26th July, 1794.

My Lord,

I never experienced so much difficulty in any event of my life, as to express the high sense I entertain of the very distinguished honour conferred upon me, by the unanimous resolution of the house of Lords, conveyed in your lordship's letter of the 21st May. I shall seize the first opportunity to forward their lordships' approbation to Rear Admiral Thompson, the Captains and the several other officers of the squadron, and to communicate it through them to the seamen and marines; to the meritorious conduct of these officers and men, jointly with that of the army, I attribute entirely the successes which have attracted the notice of the House of Lords ; and I beg leave to return my best thanks to your lordship, for the very obliging terms in which you have made it known to, my

Colonels Coote and Blundell attacked" on the left in such a superior style of spirit and impetuosity as to prove irresistible," a *" conduct above praise," and of which the admiration of the commander was inexpressible.