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 MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE

LIEUT. E. W. TUPPER, of H. M. S. SYBILLE.

��By deadly sufferings now no more oppress'd,

Mount, dear William, to thy destin'd rest :

While I, — reversed our nature's kindlier doom, —

Pour forth a brother's sorrows on thy tomb. Paraphrase.

��The subject of this memoir, the third son of John E. Tupper, Esq., by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Brock, Esq., was born in the island of Guernsey. Having received the rudiments of his education at Harrow, where, although so young, he was remarked for an ardent love of reading, united to a very reten- tive memory, he commenced his naval career in the Victory, of 110 guns, under the care and patronage of the present Lord De Saumarez, with whom he continued in the Baltic until he struck his flag. Being sent occasionally to serve in smaller vessels for the greater facility of acquiring practical seamanship, he in one instance narrowly escaped a watery grave, the Bellette, 18-gun brig, being lost with all her crew, excepting five, the cruise after he left her to rejoin 1812 in the Ranger, of 28 guns, Captain Acklom, he was employed in that ship early the following spring, in the reduction of Dantzic, then occupied by a
 * the flag ship. Having wintered on that station in

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