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With their Managing Owners, Commanders, Principal Officers, Surgeons, Pursers, Time of coming afloat, &c.

3 Inglis......

3 Atlas.

2 Minerva.

6 Streatham

s PrinChar.of Wales 978

4 Rose......*****

8 Waterloo..........

1 Winchelsea........ 1265

7 Dorsetshire.......

7 Carnatic

7 Royal George....

5 William Pitt...... 820
6 Union........
550

6 Northumberland.. 600
6 Lord Castlereagh 812
Thomas Grenville 889
B Carmarthen
Huddart............
3d July, 1817.

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LONDON, Published for the European Magazine by J. Asperne 1 Sept'1817

Right› Honourable

ADMIRAL VISCOUNT EXMOUTH,

G. C. B. &c. &c. &c.

Engraved by HMeyer from an original Painting by S.Drummond EfqRA.

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

AND

LONDON REVIEW,

FOR AUGUST, 1817,

MEMOIR OF THE

RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD PELLEW, BART.
VISCOUNT AND BARON EXMOUTH,

S CANONTEIGN, IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, G.C.B.

K.F.S. K.C.S. G.C.A. G.C.W.N. K.M.S. D.C.L. ETC. ETC. ETC.

WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY HENRY MEYER, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SAMUEL DRUMMOND, ESQ. A.R.A.]

A braver, and more dauntless spirit
Did never float upon the

HEN the warlike prowess of a nation displays itself in all the exalted energies of generous anxiety for the preservation of those interests on which the happiness of the world depends, the victorious accomplishment of its disinterested views is hailed by all the truly good and brave as an achievement sanctioned in its motive, and justified in its action by the purest associations of virtue and valour. Such has ever been the motive which has given impulse to the poise of Britain's powerful arm, when lifted up in the assertion of her glorious pre-eminence above the nations of the earth;-and such has been the action by which this pre-eminence has been preserved against their hostile aggressions.

The character of all her wars has been ennobled by a love of justice, and an inflexible resolve to maintain that balance of power, by which, the experience of ages has shewn that the peace of Europe can be best substantiated. Whenever she has drawn the sword, it has been wielded only in defence of that share in the equipoise of dominion which she has a right to assume, and the ability to preserve. No unworthy pursuit of selfaggrandisement, no desire of avaricious domination have stained the glory of her arms, or tarnished the splendour of her conquests; and in the progress of her dignified purpose, she has never refused aid to the oppressed, nor lent herself to the designs of the oppressor; but, on the contrary, the blood of her brave sons has flowed profusely, and the

swelling tide,

SHAKSPEARE.

treasures of her national wealth have been expended without reserve, to sup port the one, and controvert the other; -while in the uniform exercise of her good faith, and the undeviating perseverance of her unshrinking fortitude, she has never been known to desert the cause which she has promised to uphold, and to which she has allied her efforts. Her conflicts have been tremendous, her struggles unparalleled, yet have the honour of her name, and the strength of her greatness stood unshaken both in the cabinet and the field;-the wisdom of her counsels unrivalled; the firmness of her step in the march of her superiority unweakened; and the records of her triumphs over the lawless ambition and sanguinary despotism of usurpation and tyranny, pour a lustre over the annals of the world that will be reflected in the willing tribute of its grateful applause, as long as it retains its existence in the systems of the universe.

An ungrateful progeny may have aimed the parricidal blow at her maternal bosom,-she felt in her deepest regrets the unfilial attempt, but she turned aside the dagger; and although the transgression exiled them from her embrace, she generously received their proffers of reconciliation, and sealed the bond of peace with the most liberal assurances of amity. But the heart of the aggressor never forgives; so it was with America: again and again were those assurances repulsed, and the seal torn from the bond; yet again and again has

the mother country forgiven the restless and wayward posterity of her first offending children; and in the last instance of her forbearance, checked her resentment at a moment when its continuance must inevitably have reduced them to the expiring convulsion of their exhausted strength. At one of the periods of this unnatural warfare, when a cotemporary monarch of a neighbouring throne, meanly stooped to foment the domestic discord between the parent and the offspring, excited by an envious hatred and vain rivalry of the former's towering fame-he foresaw not the baneful consequence of his treacherous interference the infection of rebellious disobedience was carried back to the shores of his own kingdom and the virus of that plague which he sought to spread with mortal effect in the vitals of the dependencies of his nobler-minded rival, communicated its taint in portentous progress to those of his ill-fated land; and at length burst out in all the ravages of revolution and anarchy, which finally subverted the throne of his dynasty, and placed the sceptre of his succes sor, bathed in his blood, within the grasp of an unprincipled usurper,-yet in her resistance to this usurper's boundless projects of universal domination, and in her unwearied exertions to restore this monarch's descendant to the throne of his ancestors she made a generous surren der of former enmities, forgot her in juries, and announced herself to the courts of Europe as the avenger of that descendant's wrongs, and the vindicator of his claims: for this purpose, she formed a formidable league of all the other European states, encountered all the jealousies of their respect ive interests, conciliated their opposite views, concentrated their means of warfare, and ceased not from her laborious and expensive endeavour until she had accomplished the stupendous work, by constraining the murderous conqueror to submit to the dictate of her retributive award, and to deprecate her vengeance by the most humiliating supplications for that mercy which he had ever shewed himself incapable of estimating aright, when in the hour of prosperous ambition the prostrate victims of his tyrannic sway were compelled to pass beneath his yoke.

Throughout this long series of events, to which we have thus referred in abstract, and which comprehends a pe

riod of upwards of forty years, from the first American war to the downfall of Buonaparte, the warlike prowess of our country has risen into an eminence of physical efficacy, valourous repute, and political importance, which places her far above the highest standard of national consequence, in the scale of triumphant ascendancy over the most inveterate adversaries which the peace and well-being of the civilized world have ever known; and in the protracted course of such a period, we have seen the page of our history enriched with a list of victories and a host of heroes, whose exploits have thrown even the magnanimous deeds of the warriors of old into a shade of comparative inferiority, and have raised our Army and Navy to the loftiest elevation of warlike great

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At Crescy, Poictiers, and Agincourt, the sun of Britain's glory rose in its first dawn of martial splendour,-and from that early pledge of its future brightness it has been progressively reaching the meridian of its perfect day. In the ever-memorable and decisive triumphs of Waterloo, all the skill and valour displayed in former battles seem to have been concentrated by the eagle-eyed promptitude, and commanding genius of a chief who well deserves the exalted title of the Hero of the World. In the decisive conflict of Trafalgar, a Nelson combined all the glories of our naval ascendancy already established by ages of triumph over the tributary ocean. The deathless fame of our Edwards and Henrys has shone forth with increased lustre in the resplendent achievements of a Marlborough and a Wellington,

and the mighty deeds of a Blake, a Russel, and a Hawke, take a secondary place, when compared with those, which a Rodney, a Howe, a Nelson, and an Exmouth, have added to the records of our country's struggles against the unavailing efforts of envious ambition and barbarous despotism. The race of bravery between our army and navy has divided the laurel of victory be tween our unconquered soldiers and sai lors; and the important period has arrived, at which it may without presumption be asserted, that there exists not the power which can dispute the palm with either.

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In the application of her conquests, our Britain has always used a virtuous

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