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 public affairs, and contains no intimation of a desire to have it kept secret. Colonel Stanhope can, of course, have no objection to the publication of it.

W. F.

Commander Forman is the author of “An Essay on the Laws of Gravity, and the Distances of the Planets; with Observations on the Tides, the Figure of the Earth, and the Precession of the Equinoxes:” published by Longman and Co. in 1824. 



introduced into the naval service by Captain Molineux (afterwards Admiral Lord) Shuldham, in the latter end of 1771; and promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 1st Jan, 1778. He subsequently served under Sir John Lockart Ross, in the Royal George of 100 guns, Bienfaisant 64, and Ocean 90; and as first lieutenant of the Monarch 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir James Wallace, and commanded by the present Admiral Sotheron. He obtained his present rank on the 23d June, 1794; and afterwards commanded the Lutin and Pluto sloops, on the Newfoundland station. We, hope, ere long, to be able to give a more full account of his professional career.

