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with it, because in the relater she recognized the gay cavalier whom she had met at the inn. Every body laughed again excepting two persons-Stutz and Schroll. The first had again lost all the money in his purse; and the second was so confounded by the story, that he could not forbear staring with fixed eyes on the stranger, who stood over against him. His consternation increased when he perceived that the stranger's countenance seemed to alter at every moment; and that nothing remained unchanged in it, except the cold expression of inhuman scorn, with which he perseveringly regarded himself.

At length he could endure this no longer and he remarked, therefore, upon Stutz's again losing a bet, that it was now too late; that Mr. Stutz was too much in a run of bad luck; and that on these accounts he would defer the further pursuit of their play until another day. And, thereupon, he put the dice into his pocket.

"Stop!" said the strange cavalier; and the voice froze Schroll with horror; for he knew too well to whom that dreadful tone, and those fiery eyes, belonged.

"Stop!" he said again: "produce your dice!" And tremblingly Schroll threw them upon the table.

"Ah! I thought as much," said the stranger: "they are loaded dice!" So saying, he called for a hammer, and struck one of them in two. "See!" said he to Stutz, holding out to him the broken dice, which in fact seemed loaded with lead. "Stop, vile impos

tor!" exclaimed the young man, as Schroll was preparing to quit the room in the greatest confusion; and he threw the dice at him, one of which lodged in his right eye. The tumult increased; the police came in; and Stutz was apprehended, as Schroll's wound assumed a very dangerous appearance.

Next day Schroll was in a violent fever. He asked repeatedly for Stutz. But Stutz had been committed to close confinement; it having been found that he had travelled with false passes. He now confessed that he was one of the sons of the mutineer Weber; that his sickly mother had died soon afterhis father's execution; and that himself and his brother, left without the control of guardians, and without support, had taken to bad courses.

On hearing this report, Schroll rapidly worsened; and he unfolded to a young clergyman his whole unfortunate history. About midnight, he sent again in great haste for the clergyman. He came. But at sight of him Schroll stretched out his hands in extremity of horror, and waved him away from his presence; but before his signals were complied with, the wretched man had expired in convulsions.

From his horror at the sight of the young clergyman, and from the astonishment of the clergyman himself, on arriving and hearing that he had already been seen in the sick-room, it was inferred that his figure had been assumed for fiendish purposes. The dice and the strange cavalier disappeared at the same time with their wretched victim; and were seen no more.

ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OF SAILORS.*

(Literary Gazette.)

THIS is a Sailor's tribute to the noble profession in which he is em barked, and cannot fail, we think, to be acceptable not only to the British Navy, but to the British Nation. Lieut. Marshall appears to have had access to the best sources of information, and to have employed much diligence in availing himself of the opportunities afforded him; and the result is a work of personal, general, biographical, histori

cal, military, and miscellaneous kind, in which we have found a good deal to amuse our mind and gratify our curiosity.

Avoiding, as much as our memory allows, the matter he has condensed

Royal Naval Biography; or Memoirs of the Services of all the Flag Officers,Captains, Commanders, &c. whose names apat the commencement of the present year, peared on the Admiralty List of Sea Officers &c. By Lieut. John Marshall,(B.) R. N. 1823.

from preceding and contemporary writers, we shall endeavour to convey to the public an idea of these volumes, by referring to some of the original statements and anecdotes which the gallant Lieutenant has produced.

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Commencing with H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence, the publication before us contains the biographies of above two hundred admirals, either now alive, or very recently deceased. Accounts of the great general actions are given in the memoirs of the senior surviving officers who bore a part in them; as, for instance, the battle between Rodney and De Grasse is related in the memoir of Admiral Williams' (now Freeman) the senior admiral of the red. A similar arrangement is made with respect to minor combats; the different mutinies, &c.; and in this way the author manages to avoid the repetitions into which he must otherwise have been led by giving details of their share in the actions in every particular biography. Lieut. M. indeed, has performed throughout more than his title-page promised, for he has often given us short genealogies, notices of works published by such of his characters as have been guilty of that offence, and personal and private intelligence respecting them, adding much to the pleasure with which we peruse the accounts of their public services and exploits. From all these items the following view of, or rather cento from, the Royal and Naval Biography is selected.

In the life of Lord St. Vincent, it is stated that his lordship was the projector of the Break water at Plymouth, a fact which we imagine is not generally known.

Lord Gambier is described as being greatly skilled in naval architecture, and as having rendered an essential ser vice to the Navy by compiling a code of signals, "no regular one, authorized by the Admiralty, having been established since the very imperfect Sailing and Fighting Intructions issued by the Duke of York, afterwards James II." And also by drawing up the "General Instructions for the direction and guidance of officers in the internal discipline and government of the King's

ships, with the duty of every officer clearly pointed out. This was a work greatly needed, as the old instructions had become obsolete and almost useless."

Anecdote of Lord Exmouth." The wife of Rovere, one of the French deputies banished to Cayenne, was taken on her passage by our officer. She had sold all her property in France for the purpose of joining her unhappy husband, and had with her £3000 sterling. Sir Edward restored it to her, and paid his crew their share out of his own pocket."

Buonaparte.-" About a month af ter the return of the French army to Cairo, a Turkish squadron arrived at Aboukir; and in announcing this event to the people of that city, Buonaparte used the following expressions, persuasive of his adherence to the Mohammedan faith :-On board that fleet,' said he, there are Russians, who hold in horror all that believe in the unity of God, because, according to their lies, they believe that there are three Gods; but they will soon see that it is not in the number of Gods that strength consists. The Mussulman who embarks in a ship where the cross is flying, he who every day hears the one only God blasphemed, is worse than an infidel.'

"After the surrender of the French army, Sir W. Sidney Smith visited the Holy City, where the following anecdote of Buonaparte was related to him by the superior of a convent: When General Dumas had advanced with a detachment of the French army within a few leagues of Jerusalem, he sent to his Commander-in-Chief for leave to make an attack upon that place.Buonaparte replied, that, when he had taken Acre, he would come in person and plant the tree of liberty in the very spot where Christ suffered: and that the first French soldier who fell in the attack, should be buried in the Holy Sepulchre.

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Sir W. Sidney

Smith was the first Christian ever suffered by the barbarians to go into Jerusalem armed, or even to enter it in the dress of a Frank; his followers, and all who visited it by his means, were allowed the same privilege.”

"Captain Hallowell was succeeded on the Roman coast by Captain Louis, who was afterwards joined by Sir Thomas Troubridge. The French, seeing that all hopes of defending themselves successfully against the united powers that attacked them on all sides, were at an end, and thinking to obtain better terms from the English than the Austrians, proposed terms to the latter officer, with that effrontery which characterises their public proceedings, but which is as often successful as it is impudent. They had a man of the right stamp to deal with. Their ambassador at Rome began by saying, that the Roman territory was the property of the French, by right of conquest. The British Commodore settled that point, by replying, It is mine by reconquest.' A capitulation was soon concluded for all the Roman States, and Captain Louis rowed up the Tiber in his barge, hoisted English colours on the Capitol, and acted, for the time, as Governor of Rome. The prophecy of Father M'Cormick, an Irish Franciscan, was thus accomplished. On Nelson's return to Naples from Aboukir, this man predicted, that the Admiral would take Rome with his ships. The hero reminded him that ships could not as cend the Tiber: but the friar, who had probably forgotten this circumstance, met the objection with a bold front, and declared he saw that it would come to pass notwithstanding. Nelson, who was struck with the oddity of the circumstance, and not a little pleased with it, obtained preferment for him from the King of Sicily, and recommended him to the Pope."

Captain Campbell was the bearer of the despatches relating to Hawke's victory over Conflans in 1759. Of him

"The humourous anecdote has been told, that upon this or some similar occasion, Lord Anson, as they were going in his Lordship's carriage to carry the news to the King, said, 'Captain Campbell, the King will knight you, if you think proper. Troth, my Lord,' said the Captain, who retained his Scotch dialect as long as he lived, 'I ken nue use that will be to, me. But your lady may like it,' replied his Lordship. Weel then,'

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rejoined the Captain, His Majesty may knight her if he pleases."

"The following singular anecdote is related of the conduct of a pilot belonging to the Immortalité, whilst employed in the blockade of Brest:

"This man, either a Frenchman, or speaking French extremely well, expressed a great desire to Captain Hotham, that he would permit him to go on shore and get information of the state and situation of the enemy's fleet. After frequent solicitations, Captain Hotham consented, and he was put on shore in the night, with a promise that a boat should be sent to bring him off, at a proper time. The boat was accordingly sent five successive nights to the place appointed, but no pilot was there. At the expiration of eight days, he came alongside in a French boat rowed by two men and gave the following account of himself. That fearing lest he should be apprehended as a spy, he gave up the idea of attempting to get off as agreed upon, and came to the resolution of hiring a boat to go into Cameret Bay; upon getting pretty near to it, he told the men he did not mean that bay, he meant Berthaume Bay, which was about half way to the ship; when he had approached near this bay, he said he wanted to go to Point St. Mathews (which was not more than two gun shots from the frigate,) upon this the men flew in a passion, telling him they would take him back to Brest. The pilot instantly took a brace of pistols from his pocket, and pointing one at each of them, exclaimed-'I am an Englishman; and if you do not put me on board my ship, without delay, I will blow your brains out.' With which the Frenchmen judged it best to comply.-This resolute fellow had absolutely been on board some of the ships of war, and gave an exact account of their condition and force."

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In a note on the memoir of Admiral Sir W. Johnstone Hope, we find this reason given as the origin of the King's Advocate appearing uncovered

"Sir Thomas Hope was Advocate to Charles I. Three of his sons being at the same time Lords of Session, it was thought indecent that he should

plead uncovered before them, which was the origin of the privilege the King's Advocates have ever since enjoyed.

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(In 1804) "M. La Touche Treville, who had commanded at Boulogne, in 1801, commanded now at Toulon. 'He was sent for on purpose,' said Nelson, as he beat me at Boulogne, to beat me again; but he seems very loth to try. One day, while the main body of the British fleet was out of sight of land, the reconnoitering squadron, under Rear-Admiral Campbell, stood in close to the port, and La Touche, with a vastly superior force, pushed out and chased it about 12 miles. The Frenchman, delighted at having found himself in so novel a situation, published a boastful account, affirming that he had given chase to the whole British fleet, and that Nelson had fled before him! In spite of contempt for the gasconader, his lordship was half angered by his impudence. Writing to the present Earl, he said, 'You will have seen La Touche's letter how he chased me, and how I ran. I keep it and if I take him, by God he shall eat it.' La Touche, however, soon after died, according to the French papers, in consequence of walking so often up to the signal post upon Cape Sepet, to watch the British fleet; and thus effectually prevented Nelson from administering to him his own lying letter in a sandwich."

We may observe, that many letters and anecdotes of the immortal Nelson are scattered thro' this work. Ex. gr. "About this period, Rear-Admiral Russell received the following epistle from his old acquaintance Lord Nelson, written in the style that was most congenial with the bluntness of his character:- Here I am, waiting the pleasure of these fellows at Toulon, and we only long to get fairly along-side of them. I dare say, there would be some spare hats, by the time we had done. You are a pleasant fellow at all times; and, as Commodore Johnstone said of General Meadows, 1 have no doubt but your company would be delightful on the day of battle to your friends, but damned bad for your enemies. I desire, my dear Russell, you

will always consider me as one of the sincerest of the former.'

The volatility of the French character is strongly evinced in the following relation:

On board La Fortune (a French corvette taken off Damietta by Captain Hallowell) were several officers, and amongst the rest a Surgeon on the staff, who, it seems, had suffered his sense of the dangers and difficulties he was exposed to by the expedition, to get the better of his prudence, and had expressed his disapprobation of it with so much acrimony that General Buonaparte had, by way of punishment, put him into the corvette, bound on a cruise off Damietta. As soon as he was informed of the event of the battle in Aboukir Bay, and that his brother was killed on board l'Orient, he threw his snuff-box overboard, and expressed the most lively sorrow; when suddenly recovering himself with the observation, c'est la fortune de la guerre,' he turned to the spectators and said he would amuse them, and instantly pulled from his pocket a ludicrous figure of a monk, with which he so entertained himself and them, that in a few moments all care for his brother, his country, or himself, now a prisoner, was forgotten."

The rest of our selections are more

appropriate to British seamen.

Captain Gayton became a RearAdmiral Oct. 18, 1770; was made a Vice-Admiral Feb. 3, 1776; and immediately afterwards appointed to the chief command at Jamaica. Returning from thence in the Antelope, he fell in with a large ship, which was at first mistaken for an enemy, and preparations made to receive her accordingly, though of force infinitely superior to the Antelope.

The Vice-Admiral, though so extremely infirm as to be almost unable to walk, came upon the quarter-deck, and after concisely exhorting his crew to behave like Eng lishmen, told them, that for his part, he could not stand by them, but he would sit and see them fight as long as they pleased.' This gallant officer died at Fareham in 1787. - -

"Captain Harvey commanded the Brunswick, of 74 guns, on the memo

rable 1st of June, 1794. He was wounded early in the action by a musket-ball, which tore away part of his right hand; but this he carefully concealed, and bound the wound up with his handkerchief. Some time after this he received a violent contusion in the loins, which laid him almost lifeless on the deck: from this severe blow he however rallied his strength of mind, and continued at his post, directing and conducting the action, until a double-headed shot splitting, struck his right arm near the elbow, and shattered it to pieces. Growing faint thro' loss of blood, he was now compelled to retire; but when assistance was of fered to conduct him below, he nobly refused it, I will not have a single man leave his quarters on my account! my legs still remain to bear me down into the cockpit.' In this wounded and shattered state he cast a languid yet affectionate look towards his brave crew- Persevere, my brave lads, in your duty! continue the action with spirit, for the honour of our King and Country; and remember my last words -THE COLOURS OF THE BRUNSWICK SHALL NEVER BE STRUCK!'---About sun-set it was found necessary to amputate his arm above the elbow; and on the day after the Brunswick's arrival at Spithead, he was conveyed on shore at Portsmouth, where after bearing the most excruciating pain with christian resignation, he was released from this world, and lost to his country, on the 30th June.

"The House of Commons, to perpetuate the memory of this heroic man, unanimously voted a monument to be erected in Westminster abbey: had he survived, his name would have been included in the flag-promotion which took place on the 4th of the following month. It is a singular coincidence of events, that Captain Harvey, and Captain Hutt, of the Queen, were companions in a post-chaise from London, on joining their respective ships, previous to their last cruise: they both lost a limb in the action; died on the same day; and are both recorded on the same monument, raised by a grateful country to their memory."

"The following anecdote is related

of James Daley, a seaman of the Victorious, whose left thigh was carried away by a shot, so high up that a portion of the thigh was attached to it, and the right shattered to pieces. On his way to the cockpit, he observed that one of the guns close to the hatchway, was run out, and about to be discharg ed; he immediately desired the seamen who were carrying him down, to stop, which they did, when he requested to be allowed to have one shot more at the enemy before he died; after doing which,' he added, he would die content.' His request was granted; when he very contentedly permitted himself to be carried down, exclaiming on the ladder, Fight on, my boys! fight on for your King and Country until you die.' On his arrival in the cockpit, he said to the Surgeon, Sir, I know you will do all you can for me, but I also know, there is nothing in your power.' In less than half an hour after, his gallant soul left this for another world."

"Captain Otway continued to command the Trent on the Jamaica station till September, 1800, when he sailed for England with the flag of Sir Hyde Parker. During the six years that he had served in the West Indies, he is supposed to have captured and destroyed about two hundred of the enemy's privateers and merchantmen, mounting on the whole 1000 guns. Nothing can mark the character of this officer more strongly than the following anecdote, of the authenticity of which we are well assured :-A party of seamen belonging to the Trent were on shore at Portsmouth returning stores, when the Master-Attendant of the Dock-yard asked them how they liked their Captain; one of them replied, he was a man who would never deceive his crew, for if any of them deserved a couple of dozen, and he promised it, they were sure to get it; but that he did not make them polish shot or stanchions, and that he made the officers do their duty as well as the men.'Another of them observed, that the Captain always slept with one eye open,' and looked out for them all." "

On Capt. Otway's ship, the Edgar, being paid off at Chatham in July,

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