e common enemy against this country, and also in
having detached a timely force to Riga under the order of
Rear-admiral Martin, which proved the means of preventing that
city from falling into the hands of the French, and also,
through the exertions of that zealous and able officer,
succeeded in checking an important branch of the enemy's army
from penetrating towards St. Petersburg, for which important
services I have been honoured with the thanks of his Imperial
Majesty, communicated to me by his ambassador at this court. As
your lordship may not have laid those interesting particulars
regarding my services before the Prince Regent, I now most
earnestly request you will be pleased to render me that
justice. I owe it to myself, to my family, as well as to the
naval service, to which I have had the honour to belong upwards
of forty-four years, to take the proper means, with every due
respect, that my long and most faithful services are laid
before his Royal Highness, in the fullest confidence that they
will be found deserving the same mark of distinction that has
been conferred upon an officer junior to me in the list of
admirals. I beg leave to express my unfeigned acknowledgments
to your lordship for the polite manner in which you have been
pleased to convey to me the sentiments of his Royal Highness.

I have the honour to be,
With the greatest respect,
My Lord,
Your most obedient and humble servant,
JAMES SAUMAREZ.

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool,
&c. &c. &c.

On Sir James's return to Guernsey, after his unsuccessful application to
ministers for a Peerage, he resumed the works of charity and benevolence
which had already done so much good to his native island. The ground on
which Sir James's church stands was his property; he made a free gift of
it to the building committee, and subscribed one thousand pounds towards
the construction of that place of public worship. He assisted in
improving the salaries of the masters and mistresses of the parochial
schools, and was principally instrumental in establishing the Sunday
school in the town parish. He founded an exhibition in Elizabeth
College, for the best classical and theological scholar. He gave three
hundred pounds in the Catel parish, where his country seat was situate,
for the payment of a salary to the mistres