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 foreyard sprung; the spanker-boom broke in two; and the small cutter carried away from the davits.

We next find Captain Penrose commanding Vice-Admiral Murray’s flag-ship, the Resolution, during the absence of Captain Francis Pender, then acting as commissioner at Bermuda. Towards the latter end of 1796 he again returned to the Cleopatra; and had the melancholy satisfaction of conveying his much respected patron to England, that valuabla officer having been seized with a paralytic affection, from which he never recovered.

On his passage home Captain Penrose captured l’Hirondelle French privateer, of 12 guns and 70 men; many of whom were young persons of family and fortune, whose dread of being forced into the army, as conscripts, had induced them to hazard their safety on the ocean. The subject of this memoir is the author of a pamphlet, entitled “Observations on Corporal Punishment, Impressment, and other Matters relative to the present State of his Majesty’s Royal Navy .” In that small, but ably written book, he gives the following instances of the effect of well-timed indulgence to a ship’s company, “and seasonable 