ral Sir James Saumarez, taken after
the battle of the 12th July 1801 _Frontispiece._

Action with the Crescent and Reunion taken at the time
the latter surrendered Page 103

Commencement of the action between the Crescent and
her squadron, with the French squadron of superior
force off Guernsey 131

Close of the action when the Crescent retreated among
the rocks at Guernsey 134

Chart of the island of Guernsey, showing the positions of
the English and French squadrons 135

Diagram of Algeziras and Gibraltar Bay 346

ERRATA.

Page 86, l. 26, _for_ "present" _read_ "late."

142, l. 4,--"ninety-second" _read_ "ninety-two."

166, l. 23,--"Towny" _read_ "Towry."

198, l. 19,--"Marcon" _read_ "Marcou."

215, l. 14,--"Collossus" _read_ "Culloden."

ADVERTISEMENT.

In perusing the following Memoir, the reader must not be surprised if
he finds that the accounts of the several battles in which the
illustrious Saumarez was engaged, differ in some degree from those
previously given to the public. Every circumstance connected with them
has been carefully examined, and whatever statements are now advanced
can be borne out by documentary evidence. The career of Saumarez was a
long and eventful one: he entered the Navy while the nation was at
peace; he subsequently served during the American War of
independence, and throughout the late continental war, in both of
which he was in more engagements with the enemy than any other
officer. He was the last of the heroes of the 12th of April 1782.

THE LIFE

OF

LORD DE SAUMAREZ.

CHAPTER I.

Genealogy of the family of Saumarez.--Curious Record.--Branches
of the late family.--Marriage of the late Lord de Saumarez.

Admiral the Right Honourable James Lord de Saumarez, of Guernsey, was
born, on the 11th March 1757, in the parish of St. Peter-Port, the
principal town of that romantic island. The family, whose original
name was _De Sausmarez_, is of Norman extraction, and of great
antiquity in the island of Guernsey, where their lineage can be traced
almost to the Norman conquest.

Their remote ancestor received from the Dukes of Normandy a fief of
the district of Jerbourg, and was a