er, but Mr
Vanslyperken shoved him away with the bell-mouth of his
speaking-trumpet, and recovering a portion of the mess, put it on the
table for the use of poor Smallbones. "Now, then, my dog, we will go on
deck." Mr Vanslyperken left the cabin, followed by Snarleyyow; but as
soon as his master was half way up the ladder, Snarleyyow turned back,
leaped on the chair, from the chair to the table, and then finished the
whole of the breakfast appropriated for Smallbones. Having effected
this, the dog followed his master.

CHAPTER THREE.

A RETROSPECT, AND SHORT DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CHARACTER.

But we must leave poor Smallbones to lament his hard fate in the fore
peak of the vessel, and Mr Vanslyperken and his dog to walk the
quarter-deck, while we make our readers a little better acquainted with
the times in which the scenes passed which we are now describing, as
well as with the history of Mr Vanslyperken.

The date in our first chapter, that of the year 1699, will, if the refer
back to history, show them that William of Nassau had been a few years
on the English throne, and that peace had just been concluded between
England with its allies and France. The king occasionally passed his
time in Holland, among his Dutch countrymen, and the English and Dutch
fleets, which but a few years before were engaging with such an
obstinacy of courage, had lately sailed together, and turned their guns
against the French. William, like all those continental princes who
have been called to the English throne, showed much favour to his own
countrymen, and England was overrun with Dutch favourites, Dutch
courtiers, and peers of Dutch extraction. He would not even part with
his Dutch guards, and was at issue with the Commons of England on that
very account. But the war was now over, and most of the English and
Dutch navy lay dismantled in port, a few small vessels only being in
commission to intercept the smuggling from France that was carrying on,
much to the detriment of English manufacture, of certain articles then
denominated alamodes and lutestrings. The cutter we have described was
on this service, and was named the Yungfrau, although built in England,
and forming a part of the English naval force.

It may really be supposed that Dutch interest, during this period, was
in the ascendant. Such was the case; and the Dutch officers and seamen
who could not be employed in their own marine were appointed in the
English v