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there, who was thoroughly satisfied therewith; but wishing the Board of Admiralty to be so too, Captain Carteret requested him to transmit it home. Some days afterwards, a letter, addressed to the Admiral at Lisbon, was picked up on the Pomone's deck, which her commander immediately took to him. He read it, and gave it back to the gallant officer. Finding it to be an anonymous letter, subscribed "Pomone's Ship's Company," asserting that he had "run from a French frigate," Captain Carteret at once asked for a court-martial. That, however, could not well be granted then, because all the captains there were his juniors; besides which the Pomone was under orders to go home, so that much time would not elapse before the desired investigation could take place. Captain Carteret, hereupon, avowed his determination to have one, if possible, and implored the Admiral to forward the anonymous accusation, and his application for a court-martial, by the first packet, in order that not a moment might be lost. On arriving at Plymouth, he renewed his application to the Admiralty, and soon found that their Lordships had anticipated his anxious wishes. On the 29th of December, Captain Carteret addressed his people; told them of the pending trial; that he demanded it himself in consequence of the anonymous letter, which none of them would own; and that he required them all to come forward fairly and openly, to say the truth before the court. He, at the same time, promised to guarantee them from all harm on account of their evidence, if true; and, not to be mistaken by them, he wrote an order to the above effect, and stuck it up in a conspicuous place, that all or any might come forward and subscribe their names as witnesses against him. Finding that not a man would show himself ready to become his accuser, Captain Carteret was compelled to order all those whom he suspected to be most averse to him to be summoned, as well as an entire quarter of the ship's company taken by lot. On the 31st, the courtmartial assembled, and Captain Carteret was arraigned as the prisoner before it. Rear-Admiral T. Byam Martin was pre

sident; Rear-Admirals Pulteney Malcolm, and Charles V. Penrose were also among his judges. The examinations of the Pomone's officers and men were as strict as possible; but not one word was said in any the remotest degree affecting the conduct of the ship when in presence of the enemy. Captain Carteret declined making any defence, and the Court “FULLY ACQUITTED HIM OF ALL BLAME," in not bringing the enemy's frigate to action.

We shall only repeat the just observation of the editor of the "Naval Chronicle," that "this diabolical attempt to blast his reputation, could not have happened to a man whose tried and established character was better able to stand it. His services, especially when commanding the gun-boat flotilla in the Scheldt, and when defeating Buonaparte's designs at Boulogne, sufficiently prove his merits."

On the 4th of March, 1814, Captain Carteret, then in company with the Cydnus frigate, captured the Bunker's Hill, American privateer (formerly His Majesty's brig Linnet), of 14 guns and 86 men. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath, June 4. 1815; and, about the same period, appointed to La Désirée, from which frigate he removed, with his officers and crew, into the Active, of 46 guns, on the 26th Oct. following. The latter ship was employed for some time on the Jamaica station, from whence she returned to England in 1817; since which period he was not employed.

Captain Carteret obtained the Royal permission to assume the name of Silvester in addition to his own patronymic, Jan. 19. 1822; his uncle, the Recorder of London, obtained a second patent of Baronetcy, with remainder to him, Feb. 11. following; and on the 30th of March, in the same year, left him to inherit it. Sir John Silvester's estates were bequeathed for the use of his widow during her life, and afterwards to Sir Philip that lady is still living, so that Sir Philip enjoyed the Baronetcy but a short time, and the estates not at all. The former is, we suppose, extinct, as we believe Sir Philip was never married.

Sir Philip died on the 24th of August, 1828, at Leamington, of apoplexy, after only a few hours' illness, in the fiftysecond year of his age.

We have derived the foregoing Memoir from " Marshall's Royal Naval Biography."

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No. XIX.

THE REVEREND LEGH RICHMOND, A. M.,

RECTOR OF TURVEY, BEDFORDSHIRE, AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE LATE DUKE OF KENT.

MR. LEGH RICHMOND was born at Liverpool, January 29. 1772. He was the eldest child of Dr. Henry Richmond, the descendant of an ancient and honourable family. A remarkable casualty befel him in his childhood, the effects of which he never recovered. At a very early age, in leaping from a wall, he contracted an injury in his left leg, which eventually produced incurable lameness. It is somewhat singular that an accident nearly similar occurred to his younger and only brother, and also to his second son. Each of them, in infancy, fell from an open window. The former was killed, and the latter was ever after afflicted, in the same limb, with the same kind of lameness as his father.

After a private preparatory education, Mr. Richmond was admitted a member of Trinity College, Cambridge. While an under-graduate, he pursued his studies with a talent and a zeal which gave fair promise that the highest honours of his year were not beyond his reach. These hopes were, however, blighted by a severe illness, which was partly owing to his anxious and unremitted application. Precluded by this cause from engaging in the honourable contention of the senatehouse, he received what is academically termed an ægrotat degree, commencing B.A. in 1794; and, with some intermissions, he resided in the University three years longer.

We are now to view Mr. Richmond in a totally different character. In the summer of 1797, he became, within the

space of a very few weeks (to borrow his own words), "academically a Master of Arts, domestically a husband, parochially a deacon." He had been originally destined to the law; but having imbibed a distaste for that profession, his attention was subsequently directed to the Church, and he was now admitted to the sacred office. Brading, a secluded village in the Isle of Wight, was the scene of his earliest pastoral labours. He was ordained to the curacy of this place and the little adjoining village of Yaverland; and in Yaverland church he delivered his first sermon.

It was soon after this period, that the perusal of Mr. Wilberforce's "Practical View of Christianity" effected a great revolution in Mr. Richmond's mind, and established those peculiar religious principles and feelings which manifested themselves so strongly throughout the remainder of his life.

After a residence of about seven years in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Richmond removed to London, where he was to have taken a share in the duties of the Lock Chapel. Scarcely, however, was he well settled in this new scene, when, in the year 1805, he was presented, by Miss Fuller, to the Rectory of Turvey, in Bedfordshire.

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It was at Turvey that most of Mr. Richmond's publications were undertaken. He had previously printed two or three single sermons; but it was at Turvey that his great work, "The Fathers of the English Church," was carried on. For the superintendence of this important undertaking, he was eminently qualified. While in the Isle of Wight, he had commenced an acquaintance with the writings of our earlier and greatest theologians; and the study of them he had ever since zealously prosecuted. To a familiar acquaintance with the works of those divines, Mr. Richmond united the greatest impartiality and judgment in forming his selections from them. His work, therefore, presents, in a comparatively small compass, a large proportion of the most valuable of the remains of our martyrs and confessors. It is not, perhaps, too much to say, that it has been mainly instrumental in awakening to

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