could consume. On Mondays, for breakfast, every mess boiled their rice in pudding bags in the coppers, which was eat with sugar every other day in the week. Water gruel was sweetened with molasses in the coppers by the cook for breakfast, by which the men had always a hot breakfast. The allowance of oatmeal is sufficient, without prejudice to the purser. I have often wished that parsnips were more introduced on board our ships; they are very wholesome, and admirably adapted to salt provisions: there is also an excellent root called the root of scarcity, which will keep good during the severest winter, on which frost has not the least effect; it is very nourishing, and would be of great service in the sick birth.

MR. EDITOR,

Yours,

L.

In addition to what you inserted in your Sixth Number, respecting Lord Bridport, give a seaman leave to remark, who has long had the honour of serving under him, that since this judicious officer has held the command of the Channel fleet, the French have been blocked up in Brest harbour much closer than they ever were before. No Admiral at any time has kept Ushant so continually close on board as he has done; not a day passed, when the weather permitted, that Lord Bridport did not stand in; and when the wind would allow him, he has taken the fleet close in to the Black Rock, his own ship the Royal George has even been within it, which, at the commencement of the war, was rarely done even by Seventy-fours. M.

MONTERREY, one of the Places at which Captain VANCOUVER touched

in his late Voyage.

Letters from Madrid in 1769, dated January the first, mention their having at that time received a relation, printed by order of the Viceroy of Mexico, the Marquis de St. Croix, of the re-discovery of the port of Monterrey, on the coast of California, and the taking possession, in the name of his most Catholic Majesty, on the 16th of May 1769. The ship that brought the advice informed further, that they had left a garrrison of thirty men, besides some religious, with provisions for a year, and that the inhabitants appeared greatly satisfied with their new visitants, and seemed disposed to embrace the Christian religion. For this place they had made for 200 years an ineffectual in search, it being mentioned in the journals of the first navigators in the South Sea, viz. Don Sebastian Viscayno, and Don Joseph Cabruro-bueno, the first pilot of vessels to the Philippine Islands.

NAVAL ANECDOTE of the late LORD CHATHAM. The King consented (1757) that the correspondence with the Naval Officers, usually in the Board of Admiralty, should be given to Mr. Pitt, and that the Board should only sign the dispatches, without being privy to their contents. The rule or custom is, the Secretary of State sends all the orders respecting the Navy which have been agreed to in the Cabinet to the Admiralty; and the secretary to the board writes these orders again, in the form of instructions from the Admiralty to the admiral, or captain of the fleet, expedition, &c. for whom they are designed; which instructions must be signed by the Board: but during Mr. Pitt's administration he wrote the instruc tions himself, and sent them to their Lordship's to sign; always ordering his secretary to put a sheet of white paper over the writing: thus they were kept in perfect ignorance of what they signed; and the secretary and clerks of the board were all in the same state of exclusion. Life of the Earl of Chatham, vol. i. p. 307.

There was living at White-Cross, Sheffield, in March 1790, an old seaman whose name was John Holmes, the only survivor of those intrepid adventurers who accompanied Lord Anson round the world. John Holmes was at that time in his 80th year, lingering out the painful conclusion of his life in the most distressing poverty. During the twenty-eight years he was at sea, he made thirteen voyages to the Indies, eleven to the West, and two to the East, exclusive of that celebrated circumnavigation, the particulars of which he had great pleasure in relating. So retentive was his memory, notwithstanding his long confinement to a bed of sickness, that he perfectly well recollected the name, and situation, of every island they touched at in traversing the Great Pacific Ocean; and with the true spirit of a British Sailor gave an animated and circumstantial account of the gallant action, in which he bore a part, between the Centurion and the rich Spanish Galleon.-When asked what he had done with all his prize money, he replied—Alas, Sir, I was a Sailor!

NAVAL COMMISSIONED OFFICERS in the Service of GREAT BRITAIN, as the List stood July 1, 1799.

Flag Officers.

Admiral of the Flect
Admirals of the White

Earl Howe

Hol, 11.

TOULON PAPERS.

MANY of the following important Papers, illustrative of the transactions at Toulon, we have referred our readers to in the Biographical Memoir of Admiral Lord Viscount Hood, given in our last Number; and as several additional ones, never before published, have been since put into our hands, we shall submit them to the Public, arranged according to their dates, prefaced with the principal objects which gave birth to them, trusting they will be deemed no less curious than accurate historical documents of an event, which so much excited the attention of all Europe.

ON

N the 23d August 1793, Commissioners came on board the Victory from Marseilles, with full powers from the Sections of the departments of the mouths of the Rhone to treat for peace; declaring a Monarchical Government in France to be the leading object in their negociation: in consequence of their application the following Proclamation and Preliminary Declaration were issued and sent on shore to Toulon :

No. 1.

PROCLAMATION

By the Right Honourable SAMUEL LORD HOOD, Vice Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S Squadron in the Mediterranean, &c. &c. Sc. to the Inhabitants of the Towns, and Provinces, in the South of France.

"DURING four years, you have been involved in a Revolution which has plunged you in anarchy, and rendered you a prey to factious leaders. After having destroyed your government, trampled under foot the laws, assassinated the virtuous, and authorised the commission of crimes, they have endeavoured to propagate throughout Europe their destructive system of all Social Order. They have constantly held forth to you the idea of liberty, while they have been robbing you of its reality. Every where they have preached respect to persons and property, and every where in their name it has been violated. They have amused you with the sovereignty of the people, which they have constantly usurped. They have declaimed against the abuses of Royalty, in order to establish their tyranny upon the fragments of a throne, still reeking with the blood of your legitimate Sovereign. Frenchmen! you groan under the pressure of want, and the privation of all specie. Your commerce and your industry are annihilated, your agriculture is checked, and the want of provisions threatens you with an horrible famine. Behold, then, the faithful

picture of your wretched condition! A situation so dreadful sensibly afflicts the Coalesced Powers; they see no other remedy but the re-establishment of the French Monarchy. It is for this, and the acts of aggression committed by the executive power of France, that we have armed in conjunction with the other Coalesced Powers. After mature reflection upon these leading objects, I come to offer you the force with which I am intrusted by my Sovereign, in order to spare the further effusion of human blood; to crush with promptitude the factious; to re-establish a regular government in France, and thereby maintain peace and tranquillity in Europe. Decide therefore definitively and with precision; trust your hopes to the generosity of a loyal and free Nation. In its name I have just given an unequivocal testimony to the well-disposed inhabitants of Marseilles, by granting to the Commissioners, sent on board the fleet under my command, a passport for procuring a quantity of grain, of which this great town now stands so much in need. Be explicit; and I fly to your succour in order to break the chain which surrounds you, and to be the instru ment of making many years of happiness succeed to four years of misery, and anarchy, in which your deluded Country has been involved.

"Given on board his Britannic Majesty's ship Victory, off Toulon, 23d day of August 1793.

"By command of the Admiral.

"JOHN M'ARTHUR, Secretary."

No. II.

"Signed, HOOD.

PRELIMINARY DECLARATION

That accompanied the foregoing Proclamation.

"IF a candid and explicit declaration, in favour of Monarchy, is made at Toulon and Marseilles, and the standard of royalty is hoisted, the ships in the harbour dismantled, and the port and forts provisionally at my disposition, so as to allow of the egress and regress with safety; the people of Provence shall have all the assistance, and support, his Britannic Majesty's fleet under my command can give; and not an atom of private property of any individual shall be touched, but protected: having no other view than that of restoring peace to a great Nation upon just, liberal, and honourable terms.

"This must be the ground-work of the Treaty; and whenever peace takes place, which I hope and trust will be soon, the port, with all the ships in the harbour, and forts of Toulon, shall be restored to France, with the stores of every kind, agreeable to the schedule that may be delivered.

"Given on board his Britannic Majesty's ship Victory, off Toulon, the 23d of August 1793.

"Signed, HOOD."

On the 25th August 1793, the deputies of all the sections at Toulon agreed to Lord Hoods proposals, and signed a declaration, of which the following is a translation:

20. III.

DECLARATION MADE TO ADMIRAL LORD HOOD.

"THE General Committee of the Sections of Toulon having read the Proclamation of Admiral Hood, Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Squadron, together with his preliminary decla ration, and after having communicated these two papers to all the citizens of the town of Toulon, united in sections;

"Considering that France is torn by anarchy, and that it is impossible to exist longer a prey to the factions with which the Country is agitated, without its total destruction;

"Considering that the southern departments, after having made long efforts to resist the oppression of a party of factious men who have conspired to ruin them, find themselves drained and deprived of all resources to annihilate this coalition of the evil disposed;

"Considering, in short, that determined not to submit to the ty ranny of a Convention that has sworn to ruin the nation, the people of Toulon, and those of Marseilles, would rather have recourse to the generosity of a loyal people, who have manifested the desire of protecting true Frenchmen against the anarchists who wish to ruin them;

Declare to Admiral Hood,

"Ist. That the unanimous wish of the inhabitants of Toulon is to reject a constitution which does not promote their happiness; to adopt a Monarchic Government, such as it originally was by the constituent assembly of 1789; and in consequence they have proclaimed Louis the XVIIth, son of Louis the XVIth, King, and have sworn to acknowledge him, and no longer suffer the despotism of the tyrants who at this time govern France.

"2d. That the white flag shall be hoisted the instant the English Squadron anchors in the Road of Toulon; and it will there meet with the most friendly reception.

3d. That the ships of war now in the Road will be disarmed according to Admiral Hood's wishes.

"4th. That the citadel and the forts on the coast shall be provisionally at the disposal of the said admiral; but for the better establishing the union which ought to exist between the two nations, it is