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 PREFACE. American war in which he fell, were interspersed with comments and strictures on his being limited to defensive operations, and deprived of those reinforcements which he thought should have been sent from the Lower to the Upper Province. In consequence, this Memoir must be considered only as a brief summary of his life and services, and as a concise introduction to the extracts in Appendix A.

Of Lieutenant Tupper's Memoir, the Editor has merely to observe that he transmitted a copy (omitting the observations at page 39, on the present system of naval promotion,) of the description of the attack on the pirates at Candia to Sir John Pechell, who returned it with an assurance of its being so substantially correct, that he had no alteration to make. Sir John, who at the time (December, 1832) was one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and M.P. for Windsor, also wrote: "You might add that Mr. Tupper went to the Mediterranean in the Sybille, when I was so