On the following day, Lord Bridport despatched Captain Domett, with his official account of the action, to the Admiralty, where he arrived on the morning of the 27th.

The following is an extract from his Lordship's public letter, which we introduce for the purpose of evincing the estimation in which that nobleman held the bearer's professional conduct:-"I beg also to be allowed to mark my approbation, in a particular manner, of Captain Domett's conduct, serving under my flag, for his manly spirit, and for the assistance I received from his active and attentive mind."

Our officer continued in the command of the Royal George for a considerable time after Lord Bridport struck his flag, amounting in the whole to a period of about seven years and a half; a greater length of time, perhaps, than ever fell to the lot of an individual successively to command a first-rate. During this period, the Royal George was considered as one of the best-disciplined and most expert ships in the British Navy.

In the month of November, 1800, in consequence of the Royal George being ordered to receive the flag of Sir Hyde Parker, Captain Domett was removed into the Belleisle, of 80 guns, one of the prizes taken off l'Orient; and on a promotion of Flag-Officers taking place, January 1. 1801, he had the honour of being nominated to one of the vacant Colonelcies of the Marine corps.

In the succeeding month, the subject of this Memoir was appointed Captain of the fleet to be employed in the Baltic, under the command of Sir Hyde Parker. He accordingly proceeded with that officer in the London, a second-rate, to the Sound; and after the battle, which took place off Copenhagen, on the 2d of April, and the departure of the Commanderin-Chief for England, he served in the same capacity under the gallant Nelson, during the short time his Lordship's health allowed him to retain the command of the force employed in that quarter. On his arrival from the Baltic, Captain Domett immediately resumed the command of his old ship, the Belle

isle, then off Ushant; and in a short time afterwards, the late Hon. Admiral Cornwallis applied for him to be appointed Captain of the Channel fleet, in which situation he continued to serve until the truce of Amiens.

During the temporary suspension of hostilities, Captain Domett served as senior officer, with a broad pendant, on the coast of Ireland; but on the renewal of the war with France, he resumed his old station as Captain of the Channel fleet, under the gallant and persevering Cornwallis, with whom he shared the duties and fatigues of service, in an unusually longprotracted blockade, during the severest season of the year, and until April, 1804; on the 23d of which month, he was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. About the same time, he received the thanks of the Common Council of London, his name having been inadvertently omitted when that body voted thanks to the other Flag-Officers, for their perseverance in blocking up the enemy's fleet at Brest.

Soon after his promotion, the Rear-Admiral was offered a command in the North Sea; but ill health obliged him to decline it. About six months after he came on shore, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the revision of Naval Affairs; the purport of which commission was, to form a complete digest of regulations and instructions for the civil department of the Navy.

In the spring of 1808, our officer was called to a seat at the Board of Admiralty, where he continued until the summer of 1813, when he succeeded the late Sir Robert Calder as Commander-in-chief at Plymouth; having been, in the intermediate time (October 25. 1809), advanced to the rank of ViceAdmiral.

Towards the conclusion of the war, we find him employed on the coast of France, with his flag in the Royal Oak, of 74 guns, under the orders of Lord Keith. At the enlargement of the Order of the Bath, January 2. 1815, the Vice-Admiral was nominated a K.C.B.; and on the 16th May, 1820, he succeeded the Hon. Sir George C. Berkeley as a G.C.B.

Sir William Domett's promotion to the rank of Admiral of the White took place August 12. 1819.

Sir William died at Hawchurch, in Dorsetshire, on the 19th of May, 1828, aged seventy-four.

Marshall's Royal Naval Biography is our authority for this Memoir.

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No. XXIX.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON,

EARL OF LIVERPOOL;

BARON HAWKESBURY, OF HAWKESBURY, IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER, AND A BARONET, K.G.; F.R.S.; CONSTABLE OF DOVER CASTLE; LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS; AN ELDER MASTER OF THE TRINITY HOUSE; HIGH STEWARD OF KINGSTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY; A GOVERNOR OF THE CHARTER-HOUSE; AND LATE FIRST LORD OF THE

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TREASURY.

"Palma non sine pulvere."

LIVING monument of departed talent is one of the most distressing objects of contemplation. The recovery of the noble subject of the following Memoir from the melancholy malady into which he fell nearly two years ago, having been from the first utterly hopeless, the termination of that malady in death was to be desired rather than deprecated; and by those who were personally and affectionately attached to him, it must be considered as a relief, rather than as a new affliction.

The family of Jenkinson, which had been respectably settled at Walcot, near Charlbury, in Oxfordshire, for above a century, was ennobled in the person of Charles Jenkinson, Esq., eldest son of Colonel Jenkinson, and grandson of Sir Robert Jenkinson, baronet (a dignity conferred upon Robert Jenkinson, Esq., of Walcot, on the 8th of May, 1661). Mr. Charles Jenkinson was educated at the Charter-House, and at the University of Oxford. In early life, he published "Verses on the Death of Frederick Prince of Wales," "A Dissertation on the Establishment of a National and Constitu

tional Force in England, independent of a Standing Army,” and "A Discourse on the Conduct of Government respecting Neutral Nations." It was said that he was also a contributor to the commencing numbers of the Monthly Review. Having obtained an introduction to the Earl of Bute, in 1761, he became one of the Under-Secretaries of State, and was returned to parliament in the same year for Cockermouth. In 1763, he was appointed to the confidential office of joint Secretary to the Treasury; partook with Lord Bute of the marked and personal attachment of his late Majesty, and on that nobleman's sudden retirement, became one of the most conspicuous members of a party then commonly called "the King's friends." The accession of the Rockingham administration to power in 1765, induced him to resign his public appointments; but he was at about the same period nominated Auditor of the Accounts of the Princess Dowager of Wales. In 1766, he was appointed by the Grafton administration a Lord of the Admiralty; and in 1767, became a Lord of the Treasury. Under Lord North new honours awaited him. He was, in 1772, appointed one of the Vice-Treasurers of Ireland; and in 1775 was allowed to purchase the patent place of Clerkship of the Pells in that country. He afterwards succeeded Lord Cadogan as Master of the Mint; and in 1778 became Secretary at War. In 1783, he became a Member of the Board of Trade. In 1785 appeared his "Collection of all the Treaties of Peace, Alliance, and Commerce between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Treaty of Munster, in 1648, to the Treaties signed at Paris, in 1783." In 1786, the valuable appointment of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was conferred upon him, and he was called up to the House of Lords as Baron Hawkesbury, of Hawkesbury, in the county of Gloucester; and was made President of the Board of Trade. The commerce of the country was always a prominent object of his attention. He is said himself to have drawn up the Commercial Treaty with America; and to have first directed the attention of Government to the importance, and greatly to have facilitated the establishment of the South Sea fishery.