r report and give a
receipt for them on board. I assure you, sir, that the said
officers, or men, shall not serve in war until they shall be
legally allowed. Of this, the officers may pledge their word of
honour on board, or I will receive it when they appear before
me.

"You will imagine, sir, much better than I can express, the
sense of gratitude which I feel in hearing of the kind
assistance and attention which you show to the brave men who
were wounded, and of the good accommodation which the officers
and men in general have met with. Together with my gratitude on
this account, do me the honour, sir, to receive the real
estimation and respect with which I offer myself to your
services. God guard you, sir, many years!

"Your respectful obedient servant,
"JOS. DE MAZARREDO.
"Ship Concepcion, at Cadiz,
"29th April 1797."

APPENDIX O.

James, (now the Right Honourable and Reverend Baron de Saumarez,)
eldest son of Lord de Saumarez, was born at Guernsey on the 9th
October 1789. Being brought up, almost from infancy, under the
impression that he was intended for the church, and being naturally of
a mild disposition, no idea of any other profession ever entered his
mind--a circumstance which has excited general regret and considerable
surprise in the naval service; as there can be no doubt that, instead
of being at this day rector of a small living, he would have been at
the very top of the profession of which his heroic father had been so
bright an ornament. Although of the profession which was chosen for
him, and in which his family had little interest, he has proved
himself an excellent and useful member; still it must be confessed
that there is a general feeling of disappointment among the officers
of the navy, that the eldest son of their "acknowledged chief" had not
embraced that honourable service.

In consequence of his father's frequent absence, and change of station
with his ship, it became necessary to send him to a place of
instruction at an earlier age than usual, to avoid the danger of his
being carried about from port to port,--a circumstance which could not
but be felt severely by his mother. He was accordingly placed at
Newport, in the Isle of Wight, with the Rev. George Richards, where he
remained till the commencement of 1799. It was, however, before he was
sent to school, in the year 1793, that the foll