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# A Little Child's Monument/Only a Little Child

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 33–35
Only a little child! Stone cold upon a bed! Is it for him you wail so wild, As though the very world were dead? Arise, arise! Threaten not the tranquil skies!
Do not all things die? 'Tis but a faded flower! Dear lives exhale perpetually With every fleeting hour. Rachael for ever weeps her little ones; For ever Rizpah mourneth her slain sons. Arise, arise! Threaten not the tranquil skies!
Only a little child! Long generations pass: Behold them flash a moment wild With stormlight, a pale headlong mass
Of foam, into unfathomable gloom! Worlds and shed leaves have all one doom. Arise, arise! Threaten not the tranquil skies.
Should Earth's tremendous Shade Spare only you and yours? Who regardeth empires fade Untroubled, who impassive pours Human joy, a mere spilt water, Revels red with human slaughter! Arise, arise! Threaten not the tranquil skies.
… Only a little child! He was the world to me. Pierced to the heart, insane, defiled, All holiest hope! foul mockery, Childhood's innocent mirth and rest; Man's brief life a brutal jest. There is no God; Earth is Love's sepulchral sod!
Only a little child! Ah! then, who brought him here? Who made him loving, fair, and mild, And to your soul so dear?
His lowly spirit seemed divine, Burning in a heavenly shrine. Arise, arise! With pardon for the tranquil skies.
Only a little child! Who sleeps upon God's heart! Jesus blessed our undefiled, Whom no power avails to part From the life of Him who died And liveth, whatsoe'er betide! Whose are eyes Tranquiller than starlit skies!
Only a little child! For whom all things are: Spring and summer, winter wild, Sea and earth, and every star, Time, the void, pleasure and pain, Hell and heaven, loss and gain! Life and death are his, and he Rests in God's eternity. Arise, arise! Love is holy, true, and wise, Mirrored in the tranquil skies.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boardman, Robert Ball

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​BOARDMAN. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
Robert Ball Boardman entered the Navy, 1 July, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Actaeon sloop, Capt. Philip Hue, and in March, 1802, joined the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Hancock. Under the latter officer, during a continuance of three years on the North Sea station, we find him bearing part, as Midshipman, in many encounters with the enemy, especially, on 16 May, 1804, in the Croizer’s gallant engagement of six hours and a half with a division of the French flotilla, consisting of 59 sail, passing along-shore from Flushing to Ostend, whose fire occasioned her a loss of 1 man killed and 4 wounded; and in her close action, 23 Oct. following, with a praam, which was completely silenced in less than an hour and a half. Mr. Boardman also contributed to the capture of several privateers, and, among others, on 17 Nov. 1804, of the notorious Contre Amiral de Magom, of 17 guns and 84 men. He next joined the Ville de Paris first-rate, bearing the flag in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and, in May, 1806, the Montagu 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Rich. Hussey Moubray, on the Mediterranean station, where, under the former officer, he assisted at the evacuation of Scylla, 17 Feb. 1808, and in the subsequent co-operations with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Being confirmed a Lieutenant, 19 May, 1809, in the Fame 74, Capts. Rich. Hen. Alex. Bennett and Phipps Hornby, he was afterwards appointed, in that capacity – 13 Nov. 1810, to La Belle Poule 38, Capts. Jas. Brisbane, Geo. Harris, and Fras. Baker,under the first of whom he witnessed the destruction, 5 May, 1811, despite many severe obstacles, of a French 18-gun brig in the small harbour of Parenza – and, 16 Sept. 1815, to the Bacchus brig, Capts. Wm. Hill and John Pengelly Parkin, employed on the East India station. He was paid off, 3 June, 1818, and has not since been employed.
Lieut. Boardman, having lost his first wife in 1838, married, secondly, 24 July, 1839, the widow of the late Commander Robt. Andoe, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bold, Edward

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​BOLD, K.T.S. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Edward Bold entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1804, as Second-cl. Vol., on board the {sc|Princess}} floating battery, Capt. Sam. Colquitt, stationed at Liverpool; attained the rating of Midshipman in May following; and subsequently served, under Capt. Edw. Brace, in the 32-gun frigates Castor and Iris, and for four years and a half, as Master’s Mate, in La Virginie of 46 guns and 281 men, employed off the coast of Spain and on the North Sea and Cork stations. In the latter ship, besides making prize of two Spanish privateers of 14 guns each, he assisted at the capture, 19 May, 1808, of the Guelderland, a Dutch frigate of 36 guns and 253 men, which did not surrender until after a most determined night action of an hour and a half, terminating with a loss to herself of 25 killed and 40 severely wounded, and to the British of only 1 man killed and 2 wounded. In the early part of 1810 Mr. Bold was taken prisoner by the French, who detained him in captivity from that period until 1814. He was promoted to his present rank 6 Feb. 1815, but has not been since officially employed. In Jan. 1845, he was granted the Royal licence to accept and wear the insignia of a K.T.S., conferred on hini by the Queen of Portugal in testimony of Her Majesty’s approbation of his services while recently commanding a frigate in Her Most Faithful Majesty’s navy. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bolton, Charles

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​BOLTON. (Lieut., 1825. f-p., 16; h-p., 18.)
Charles Bolton, born, 11 Sept. 1798, at Akenham Hall, near Ipswich, is nephew of the late Thos. Bolton, Esq., of Wells, co. Norfolk, who married Susannah, eldest sister of Lord Nelson; first cousin of the present Earl, and of the late Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, R.N.; and second cousin of Lieut. Augustus Bolton, R.N. This officer entered the Navy, 15 July, 1813, as Midshipman, on board the Forth 40, commanded by his relative Sir Wm. Bolton, with whom he ​served for upwards of two years in the North Sea and off the coast of North America. During the first three years of the peace he appears to have been employed with Capt. Jas. Walker in the Albion, Queen, and Northumberland 74’s, on the Home station, where, and in the West Indies, he afterwards joined the Tribune 36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, Sapphire 26, Capt. Alex. Montgomerie, Hussar 38, Capt. Geo. Harris, and, as Mate, the Isis 50, Capt. Thos. Forrest. Having passed his examination in Sept. 1819, he obtained command, 29 Oct. 1824, of the Speedwell schooner, also stationed in the West Indies, whence, shortly after his confirmation to a Lieutenancy in the Pylades 18, Capt. John Leith, which took place 27 Aug. 1825, he returned home. His subsequent appointments were, again on the same station – 10 Dec. 1829, to the North Star 26, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis – 15 Jan. 1832, to the Winchester 52, commanded by the same officers and Hon. Wm. Wellesley – and, 24 Feb. 1833, to the command of the Nimble schooner of 5 guns. During the short period of 20 months that he was in the latter vessel, Lieut. Bolton signalised himself by the ardour and success of his efforts against the supporters of the slave-trade, from whom he captured no less than six heavy vessels, having on board, in the aggregate, as many as 1902 negroes. For his conduct on one occasion in particular, 10 Nov. 1833, in taking the Joaquina, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, in which the latter lost her Captain and 2 men killed, and was reduced to a sinking state, with four feet water in her hold, he received a letter of thanks from the Admiralty. In Nov. 1834, the Nimble, in charge at the time of a pilot, was unfortunately wrecked on her way to the Havana in running through the Old Bahama Channel. At the subsequent court-martial held at Port Royal her Commander was not only fully acquitted of all blame in the unfortunate occurrence, but was complimented with the high encomiums of the President, Sir Watkin Owen Pell. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Bolton married, 27 Oct. 1835, Anne Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late T. Howard, Esq., of London,
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blurton, George

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​BLURTON. (Lieutenant, 1812.)
George Blurton entered the Navy, 10 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Thisbe armée en flûte, Capt. Lewis Shepheard. In 1807, after serving on the Mediterranean and Home stations, he attended Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke to Buenos Ayres; and, on his return, we find him employed for 17 months as Midshipman in the Zebra and Alaart sloops, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Tillard. He then rejoined Capt. Shepheard in the Brazen 18, commanded afterwards by Capt. Rich. Plummer Davies, on the West India station, where he was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 7 Feb. 1812, in the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley. His subsequent appointments afloat were – 23 April, 1813, to the Clio sloop, Capt. Wm. Farington, employed on the Home station – and, 22 Nov. 1815, as Senior, to the Mutine 18, Capts. Jas. Mould and Wm. Sargent, under the former of whom he fought at Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He went on half-pay in April, 1817; obtained, in 1820, an appointment in the Coast Guard; and, since 28 July, 1838, has been in command of the Semaphore station at Godalming. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blyth, Charles

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​BLYTH. (Lieut, 182.5. f-p., 22; h-p., 18.)
Charles Blyth, born 17 Sept. 1795, is ninth son of the late Wm. Blyth, Esq., of Sneeting Hall, Kirby, near Colchester.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the King George, hired cutter, for the purpose of joining the Defence 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, previously to which, however, he served with the in-shore squadron at the bombardment of Copenhagen, and was for a short time attached to the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Lord Gambler, and Spencer 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford. In Dec. following he at length joined his appointed ship, but soon returned to the Spencer, and, on the latter being paid off, in Dec. 1808, was transferred to the Indefatigable 40, Capt. John Tremayne Rodd, one of the ships employed at the destruction of the French squadron in Aix Roads, in April, 1809. In 1810 Mr. Blyth became Midshipman of the Scipion 74, bearing the flag of Hon. R. Stopford, from which ship, after assisting at the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811, he accompanied the same officer into the Lion 64. He next joined the President 38, Capts. Fras. Mason and Archibald Duff, under the former of whom he appears to have been very actively engaged at the siege of St. Sebastian, in Aug. and Sept. 1813, where he commanded the President’s 10-oared cutter, one of the few boats that effected a landing at the storming of Santa Clara. Mr. Blyth, who passed his examination in Oct. 1814, subsequently served in the York 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, on the Irish station; Niger 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, on the coast of North America; from 1821 to 1824, as Acting-Lieutenant, and Mate in charge of chronometers, in the Bustard 10, and Ringdove 18, Capts. Martin Jas. Wigston, and Edwin Ludlow Rich, in the West Indies; and, lastly, the Britomart 10, Capts. Octavius Vernon and Thos. Stephenson, of which vessel he was created a Lieutenant 9 Feb. 1825. He invalided m 1826; and, since 2 Dec. 1843, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Blyth married, in Dec. 1829, Miss Jane M‘Dowell, of Ballymena, co. Antrim, by whom he has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bolton, Augustus

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​BOLTON. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Augustus Bolton is second cousin of Lieut. Chas. Bolton, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 29 March, 1810; passed his examination in 1816; obtained his commission 4 Oct. 1825; served, from 14 April, 1832, until 1834, in the Trinculo 16, Capt. Jas. Rich. Booth, in active suppression of the slave traffic on the coast of Africa; and, since 15 June, 1841, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boardman, Thomas

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​BOARDMAN. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Boardman entered the Navy, 31 Dec. 1803, as a Supernumerary, on board the Princess floating battery, Capt. Sam. Colquitt, stationed at Liverpool; was next employed, as Fst.-cl. Vol. and Midshipman, in the Bonetta sloop, Capts. Savage and Probyn, off Boulogne and in the North Sea; joined, in May, 1805, the Eurydice 24, Capt. Wm. Hoste; and from Oct. following until 4 Jan. 1811, with the interval of a few months in 1810, when we find him in the Centaur 74, flag-ship off Toulon of Sir Sam. Hood, served with the same Captain, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Amphion 32. While in that ship he witnessed the invasion of Calabria in July, 1806, and, on 30 of the same month, a successful attack upon the important fortress of Cotrone; was present, 12 May, 1808, in a spirited engagement of some hours with the batteries in the Bay of Rosas in an attempt to capture from under their protection the French frigate-built 800-ton store-ship Balleine, mounting from 26 to 30 guns, with a crew of about 150 men; and, on 27 Aug. 1809, served in the boats under Lieut. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, at the gallant destruction of the fort of Cortelazzo, near Trieste, and capture of a number of gun-boats and merchantmen anchored for safety beneath its walls. On leaving the Amphion, Mr. Boardman became Acting-Lieutenant of the Acorn 18, Capts. Robt. Clephane, Fairfax Moresby, and Geo. Miller Bligh, but soon ​afterwards, from his intimate knowledge of the Adriatic navigation, volunteered his services in the Belle Poule 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, for a cruize in that sea, where, on 5 May following, he assisted at the destruction, in face of considerable opposition from the enemy, of a French 18-gun brig, in the harbour of Parenza. Being confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant on 8 Aug. in the same year, he successively joined, in that capacity – 12 Dec. ensuing, the Bulwark 74, bearing the broad pendant in the Channel of Commodore Rich. Goodwin Keats, and afterwards the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham – 11 May, 1813, the Rover 18, Capt. Justice Finley, stationed in Basque Boads – and, 20 Dec. 1813, the Superb 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, employed off New York and New London. Since Aug. 1814, in the course of which month he invalided home, Mr. Boardman has been on half-pay.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1907.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, p. 1547.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bogle, Vere Warner Hussey

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​BOGLE. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Vere Warner Hussey Bogle, born 19 July, 1787, is first cousin of the late Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton, Bart., K.C.B., and of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Hussey, K.C.B., their mothers being sisters.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., oil board the Tartar 32, Capt. Jas. Walker, with whom, on proceeding to the West Indies, he joined, as Midshipman, in April, 1802, the Vanguard 74; and, in that ship, during the year 1803, he assisted at the capture, besides a variety of smaller vessels, of Le Duquesne 74, and La Créole of 44 guns, with the French General, Morgan, and 530 troops on board; and he also witnessed the surrender of the town of St. Marc, St. Domingo; the garrison of which place, amounting to about 1100 men, were brought off by the Vanguard and her prizes to rescue them from the vengeance of the black General Dessalines. Returning home with Capt. Walker in Sept. 1804, on board the Duquesne, Mr. Bogle, in the following month, became attached to the Active 38, commanded by his relative Capt. R. H. Moubray, under whom we find him employed for some time in blockading the French force in Toulon; and, after his return to England with the despatches announcing its escape, accompanying the expedition of 1807 to the Dardanells, where the Active bore a very distinguished part in the destruction of the Turkish squadron. Mr. Bogle, who soon afterwards came home in the Bergère sloop, Capt. G. B. Whinyates, was promoted, immediately on passing his examination, to a Lieutenancy, on 2 Sept. in the same year, in the Prince George 98. That ship being, however, paid off before he could join, he was next appointed, on 23 of the ensuing October, to the Proserpine 32, Capt. Chas. Otter, stationed off the port of Toulon. While thus employed, the Proserpine, on the morning of 28 Feb. 1809, was attacked, and, in spite of a noble resistance, in which she lost 1 man killed and 10 wounded, captured, by the two French 40-gun frigates Pénélope and Pauline. In consequence of this disaster, Lieut. Bogle, in common with the other officers and men, was ultimately taken to Verdun, where he was detained, a prisoner en parole, until May, 1814. Not having been since employed, he accepted, on 11 Jan. 1844, the rank he now holds.
Commander Bogle married, 14 Oct. 1822, Alice, only daughter of Thos. Brown, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boileau, Lestock Francis

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​BOILEAU. (Lieut., 1806. f-p., 40; h-p., 9.)
Lestock Francis Boileau, born, 6 Nov. 1785, in the city of Dublin, is descended of an ancient and noble Huguenot family that emigrated from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and lineally derives from Etienne Boileau, who was appointed governor and first grand provost of Paris in 1255.
This officer entered the Navy, about Aug. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Van Tromp, Capts. Rich. Hill and Peter Puget, on the Irish station; served next, as Midshipman, in the Téméraire 98, bearing the flags in the Channel and West Indies of Rear-Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Geo. Campbell; and, in March, 1803, became Master’s Mate of the Constance 24, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, with whom he was employed for upwards of two years in the North Sea. He obtained an Acting-Lieutenancy, 20 Aug. 1805, in the Powerful 74, Capt. Robt. Plampin, lying at Gravesend; was appointed, 13 Sept. following, Sub-Lieutenant of the Imogene sloop, Capt. Thos. Garth; and was promoted to his present rank in that vessel 22 Jan. 1806. He subsequently served for short periods in the Comus, Capt. Conway Shipley, Grasshopper, Capt. Thos. Searle, and Lord Eldon and Duchess of Bedford, both commanded by Capt. John Bradley; from 26 Oct. 1808, to 6 Jan. 1812, in the Conqueror 74, Capt. Edw. Fellowes, off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean; and next in the Tenedos 38, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the coast of North America, Grampus 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, in which ship he proceeded to China, and Doris 36, Capt. Robt. O’Brien, on the East India station, whence he invalided 3 June, 1815. Lieut. Boileau, since 10 Aug. 1824, has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
He married, in March, 1826, Charlotte, daughter of the late Joseph Packer, Esq., Lieut. R.N. (1800), and has issue four sons, of whom one is an officer in the Indian army. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brisbane, James William Douglas

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​BRISBANE. (Capt., 1846. f-p., 15; h-p., 13.)
James William Douglas Brisbane, born 11 March, 1806, is only surviving son of the late gallant Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Brisbane, K.C.B., the hero of Curaçoa, by Sarah, daughter of Sir Jas. Patey, Kt., of Reading, co. Berks. He is nephew of Sir Jas. Brisbane, who officiated as Captain of Lord Exmouth’s flag-ship at the battle of Algiers, and died from the effects of disease contracted while employed in the chief command of the naval force attached to the expedition against the Burmese, 19 Dec. 1826 – of Capt. John Douglas Brisbane, drowned in 1782 – of Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Stewart Brisbane, killed at St. Domingo in 1795 – and of Capt.Wm. Henry Brisbane, R.N., who died in 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Euryalus 42, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, on the West India station, and afterwards became attached in succession, as Midshipman and Mate, to the Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe – Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Martin – Calliope 10, Capt. John Powney, with whom he returned to the West Indies – and Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, in which he escorted the Queen of Wurtemberg from Antwerp to England, and H. B. H. the Lord High Admiral on a visit to the different naval arsenals. He was presented by the latter august personage with a hauling-down commission 11 Aug. 1827; after which he appears to have been employed, from 1 March, 1828, until paid off in 1830, in the Icarus 10, Capt. Hon. Thos. Best – also, as First Lieutenant, in the Mersey 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay – and in the Barham 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming – all on the Jamaica station. He was advanced to his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and, on 14 Nov. 1843, was appointed to the Larne 18, on the coast of Africa. While in command of the latter sloop, Capt. Brisbane succeeded in effecting the capture of two Brazilian slave-vessels. On one occasion he proceeded up the river Gallinas in charge of a division of boats, and, although opposed by the fire of 400 of the natives, had the good fortune to destroy the towns of Minna, Tindor, and Leah; and, on another, he led a second detachment of boats up the same pestilential stream for the purpose of attacking the city of Ghindemar, which place, although hostilities were eventually rendered unnecessary, he contrived to reach after having been compelled to cut his way through trees and other obstacles that had been thrown into the river to impede his progress. Since the attainment of his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay.
Capt. Brisbane married, 27 Aug. 1834, Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late John Ryley, Esq., of Hertford House, near Coventry, and by that lady has issue one daughter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brock, Thomas Saumarez

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​BROCK. (Commander, 1842.)
Thomas Saumarez Brock entered the Navy, 9 Feb. 1815; passed his examination in 1822; obtained his first commission 12 May, 1827; and was appointed, 4 Feb. 1828, to the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, under whom he served for some time at the blockade of Navarin, and in co-operation with the French at the reduction of Morea Castle, where his zeal and intelligence, at the landing of the guns, 18 Oct. 1828, were very conspicuous. Since quitting the latter ship he has been uninterruptedly engaged in the survey of the Mediterranean – first, from Nov. 1830, to May, 1836, in the Mastiff, Meteor, and Beacon, as assistant to Lieut. James Wolfe and Capt. Rich. Copeland then for nearly six years in command of the Magpie – and, since 5 March, 1844, in command, also, of the Bonetta brigantine. He was advanced to his present rank while in the Magpie, 7 March, 1842.
Commander Brock married, 10 Feb. 1835, Miss Dickson, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.