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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mason, Henry Browne

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​MASON. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Henry Browne Mason, born 26 April, 1791, is descended from Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham and Winchelsea.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz. After sharing in the battle of Trafalgar he removed, in Nov. 1805, to the Amphion 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste, on the Mediterranean station, where, in May, 1809, he was captured in a prize by two French privateers, and carried to Ancona. From that place he was marched to Briançon, and subsequently to Verdun. In Aug. 1810, owing to misconduct on the part of other midshipmen, he was deprived of his parole, and placed in close confinement in the citadel prison. Thence, in the following Nov., after many ineffectual attempts, he contrived to escape; and on 1 Jan. 1811, having traversed Holland, he had the good fortune to reach England. He was in consequence promoted, on 2 Feb. in the same year, to a Lieutenancy in the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzec, off Lisbon; and he was next appointed – 3 May and 18 Dec. 1811, to the America and Kent 74’s, Capts. Josias Rowley and Thos. Rogers, on the Mediterranean station – and, 28 June, 1813 (after six months of half-pay), to the Forth 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton. He acquired his present rank 13 June, 1815, but has not been since employed.
Commander Mason, for upwards of 13 years, has been in the Commission of the Peace for co. Southampton. He was left a widower, with six children, 29 Oct. 1843.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, Nathaniel

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​MARTIN. (Commander, 1825.)
Nathaniel Martin died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diamond 38, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan; under whom, on being removed to the Captain 74, he assisted at the capture, 19 June, 1799, of Rear-Admiral Perreé’s squadron of three frigates and two brigs, and attended, as Midshipman, the expeditions of 1800 to Quiberon and Ferrol. In May, 1802, at which period the Captain, in command of Capt. Chas. Boyles, was at Jamaica, he took a passage home in the Vengeance 74, Capt. Geo. Duff; rejoining Sir R. J. Strachan, on his arrival, in the Donegal 80. Previously to leaving that ship, Mr. Martin was for some time employed in blockading the port of Cadiz, and contributed to the capture, 25 Nov. 1804, of the Spanish frigate Amfitrite of 44 guns. When subsequently with Sir Richard in the Caesar 80, we find him enacting a part in the action off Ferrol 4 Nov. 1805. On 1 July, 1806, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, and again ordered to the West Indies; after cruizing for three or four months on which station, he went back to the Caesar in the capacity last-mentioned, and continued in her (his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant being confirmed 19 March, 1807) under the flags of Rear-Admirals Sir R. J. Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway, under the command of Capts. Chas. Richardson and Wm. Granger, until May, 1811. He was in consequence present, during the year 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates near the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, in Lord Cochrane’s attack upon the French shipping in Basque Roads, and in the expedition to the Walcheren. His last appointments were – 3 Oct. 1811, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Robt. Bloye, under whom he saw much active service on the north coast of Spain – 12 Aug. 1812 and 2 Feb. 1813, to the Venerable and Stirling Castle 74’ s, in the latter of which ships (the Venerable had been employed as the Lyra) he escorted Earl Moira to India – 7 Nov. 1814, to the Martin sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Arbuthnot, stationed, until Oct. 1815, on the coast of Ireland – 18 Aug. 1818, to the command of the Grecian cutter, in the Channel – and, 26 Sept. 1822, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth. The rank of Commander was conferred on him 27 July, 1825.
He had been left a widower in March, 1820. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, Thomas

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​MARTIN. (Captain, 1826. f-p., 17; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Martin, born 11 Dec. 1787, is only surviving son of the late John Nickleson Martin, Esq., of WoUaton, co. Nottingham, a Captain in the Army, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Hutchinson, Esq., of Skirsgill, near Penrith, and of Crossfield House, near Kirkoswald, co. Cumberland. His grandfather, George Martin, Esq., was Surgeon of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London; and his maternal uncle, John Hutchinson, who died on board the Edgar 74, off Madras Roads, in 1783, was a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines. Capt. Martin is a descendant of Harold de Vaux, Lord de Vaux, who at a very early period crossed over from Normandy and settled in England.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1799, as Midshipman, on board the Superb 74, Capt. John Sutton, whom, after an intermediate servitude in the Channel and Mediterranean, he followed, in March, 1801, into the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. In Dec. 1801, he removed to the Immortalité 36, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Hon. Henry Hotham and Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and in the summer of 1805 (having been latterly employed, still on the Home station, in the Mars 74, Capt. John Sutton, and, as Master’s Mate, in the Révolutionnaire 44, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham) he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Hibernia 110, Capt. Wm. Bedford, and Audacious 74, Capts. John Lawford and Jas. Bissett. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, and was subsequently appointed Senior – 27 March, 1806, of the Penelope 36, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and John Dick, stationed for some time on the coast of North America, as also in the West Indies, where he served on shore with a party of seamen at the capture of Fort Trinité, prior to the surrender of Martinique in Feb. 1809 – 3 Dec. 1810, of the Wolverene brig, Capt. Chas. Julius Kerr, attached to the force in the Channel – and, in ​1811-12-13, of the Dragon 74, and Tribune 36, flag-ships of Sir Fras. Laforey, and Grampus 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, in the West Indies. He was promoted, 10 Aug. 1813, to the command of the Surinam sloop, in which vessel he returned home with convoy and was paid off in the following Oct.; and he was lastly, from 3 June, 1824, until Jan. 1827, employed on the Jamaica station in command of the Jaseur 18. His Post-commission bears date 2 Aug. 1826.
Capt. Martin married, 5 Aug. 1828, Ann, daughter of John Miles, Esq., of London; and by that lady has had issue five sons and two daughters. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, Joseph Winthrop

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​MARTIN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Winthrop Martin entered the Navy, 28 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sybille frigate, Capt. Robt. Winthrop, and after cruizing among the Western Islands, six months in the capacity of Midshipman, removed, in July, 1807, to the Téméraire 98, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Edw. Sneyd Clay, Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, Joseph Spear, and Sam. Hood Linzee. In that ship, which for some time bore the flags of Rear-Admirals Manley Dixon and Fras. Pickmore, he was for four years and eight months employed in the Channel and Baltic, off Cadiz, in the Mediterranean, and at Plymouth. He then followed Capt. Linzee into the Union 98, but had not been long in her before he was transferred to the Narcissus 32, Capt. John Rich. Lumley; with whom, it appears, he served in the West Indies and North America until May, 1813. He obtained a commission 27 May, 1814; and was lastly, from Oct. in the same year until Aug. 1815, employed in the Tamar 24, Capt. Chas. Sotheby, and Valiant 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, on the North and South American stations. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, William Henry

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​MARTIN. (Lieutenant, 1821.)
William Henry Martin entered the Navy, 26 May, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Antelope 50, Capt. Donald McLeod, bearing the flag at Newfoundland of Admiral John Holloway; and in the following Sept. became a Supernumerary Midshipman of the Pompée 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane in the West Indies; where he continued employed, until the following July, in the Pultusk and Wellington, both commanded by Capt. John M‘George. During the next four years and nine months we find him serving on the Cadiz and Lisbon stations in the Papillon sloop, Capt. Jas. Hay. He was then, in 1815, borne for a short time on the books of the Namur 74, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley at the Nore; after which he was successively, between May, 1816, and Dec. 1820, nominated Admiralty Midshipman of the Cadmus 10, Capt. John Gedge, Pique 36, Capts. Jas. Haldane Tait and John Mackellar, Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, and Sybille 44, Capt. Joshua Ricketts Rowley, on the Home and Jamaica stations. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for a brief period as such in the Euryalus 42, Capts. Isham Fleming Chapman and Wilson Braddyll Bigland) 6 March, 1821; and was subsequently appointed – 22 March, 1822, to the Albion 74, Capts. Rich. Raggett and Sir Wm. Hoste, lying at Portsmouth – and, 15 Nov. 1826, to the Thetis 46, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sam. Burgess, under the latter of whom he was, we presume, wrecked near Cape Frio, 5 Dec. 1830. He has not been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, William Fanshawe

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​MARTIN. (Captain, 1824. f-p., 18; h-p., 16.)
William Fanshawe Martin is eldest son of Admiral Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 June, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince Frederick 74, Capt. Rich. Pridham, in which ship, and in the Impregnable 98, and Akbar 50, each bearing the flag of his father, he served at Plymouth and off the Scheldt until April, 1815. He then became in succession attached, for short periods, to the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, Spencer 74, Capt. Richard Raggett, Rochfort 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, and Eridanus 36, Capt. Wm. Paterson, all on the Channel station; and on next, in Jan. 1816, joining the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, he sailed in that ship with Lord Amherst for China – continuing in her until wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on her passage home, 18 Feb. 1817. In the following Aug. Mr. Martin was rated Midshipman of the Prince Regent yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. Hamilton. He was promoted (after nearly three years’ servitude in the Mediterranean in the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland) to a Lieutenancy, we believe, in the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, 15 Dec. 1820; and, on 7 April, 1821, he joined the Aurora frigate, Capt. Henry Prescott, fitting for South America; where, on 8 Feb. 1823, he was made Commander into the Fly sloop. He attained Post-rank 5 June, 1824; and was subsequently appointed – 29 April, 1828, to the Samarang 28, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in ​the summer of 1831 – and, 19 July, 1844, and 80 Jan. 1845, to the Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, flag-ships of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Durnford King, at Sheerness. He has been on half-pay since Oct. 1845.
Capt. Martin married, first, 24 July, 1826, Hon. Anne Best, daughter of the late Lord Wynford, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and sister of Capt. Hon. Thos. Best, R.N. That lady dying in 1836, he married, a second time, 21 May, 1838, Sophia, second daughter of Rich. Hurt, Esq., of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. He has issue by both marriages. Agent – J. Chippendale.
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# A New England Tale

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A
NEW-ENGLAND TALE;
OR,
SKETCHES
OF
NEW-ENGLAND CHARACTER AND MANNERS.
But how the subject theme may gang,
Let time and chance determine;
Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
Burns.
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS & E. WHITE, 128 BROADWAY.
1822.
J . Seymour, Printer.
* Preface
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Note to Page 136
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# A Tale of the Secret Tribunal

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A Tale of the Secret Tribunal
By
Felicia Hemans
Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany January-February 1822 Pages 9-16, 178-186
by Peter J. Bolton
# A Spider sewed at Night

* "The Spider" in Poems: Second Series (1891)
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# A Spectacular Feature: Samson and Delilah

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Comic book adaptation of the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah, published by Fox Features Syndicate in April 1950.

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# A Sportsman's Sketches

From The Novels of Ivan Turgenev (1895–1899).
THE NOVELS OF
IVAN TURGENEV
VOLUME VIII
THE NOVELS OF IVAN TURGENEV
| i. | Rudin. |
| ii. | A House of Gentlefolk. |
| iii. | On the Eve. |
| iv. | Fathers and Children. |
| v. | Smoke. |
| vi. & vii. | Virgin Soil. 2 Vols. |
| viii. & ix. | A Sportsman's Sketches. 2 Vols. |
NEW YORK MACMILLAN AND CO.
A SPORTSMAN'S SKETCHES
BY
IVAN TURGENEV
Translated from the Russian
By CONSTANCE GARNETT
VOLUME I
New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1895
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
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# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark in Politics

MARK IN POLITICS
The chief regret of Mark's literary life was that "folks felt disappointed unless tickled" by his writings. Joan of Arc was his first serious attempt, but when he entered national and New York City politics—against Blaine and Tammany respectively—he was so much in earnest they had to hire Bob Davis to follow up his speeches with a few funny remarks.
"Throwing acorns before the swine," Mark called it. ("Acorn" was the name of the anti-Tammany organization). "Bob had better can that stuff and sell it to the Saturday Evening Post. They will fall for it, all right."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark on Lynch Law

MARK ON LYNCH LAW
They were talking lynch law in Professor Krafft-Ebing's library in Vienna—some horrible nightmare that had come in the latest cable—and as a matter of course Clemens was asked his opinion as an American and observer of human nature.
"Lynch law means mob-lawlessness, doesn't it?" he drawled. "Well, what does it argue? To my mind it argues that men in a crowd do not act as they would as individuals. In a crowd they don't think for themselves, but become impregnated by the contagious sentiment uppermost in the minds of all who happen to be en masse. While in Paris last, the family and I toured all the places of horror, made odious during the White Terror—we followed pretty closely the scent of the 'Tale of Two Cities,' Michelet, Dumas, and others. I was particularly interested in the 'Official Gazette' of the guillotine, 'The Moniteur,' and my girls helped me read and digest many tell-tale pages yellow with age and tattered by usage. Among other interesting items, I found recorded that on a certain date the Nobles had voted to forego their feudal privileges.
"Now, their previous failure to renounce these same rights had been one of the prime causes of the Revolution. Yet when they acquiesced, they were put to the knife just the same, for mob-law ruled then. Another case ​in the 'Moniteur': I read of a deputy named Monge, the same whom Napoleon in his Saint Helena talks pronounced a most lovable character, so kind-hearted that he would never eat any fowl if he had to kill it first. Yet in the Convention, in the midst of the mob of his fellows, this same Monge vociferated for unlimited bloodshed, for 'war to the knife.' He had caught the contagion and, intoxicated with bloodthirstiness, acted the madman.
"'I love my children,' he cried, 'but if the Convention decrees war on the enemies of the Republic, I will give my two daughters to the first two of our countrymen wounded in battle.' Would he have said that seated quietly at his fireside? Certainly not. It was the mob that was talking through his mouth."
The Terror
Mark returned to the subject on another occasion. He said:
"You know I have always been a great admirer of Dickens, and his 'Tale of Two Cities' I read at least every two years. Dickens witnessed my first holding hands with Livy when I took her to one of his lectures in New York. Now that I have finished 'The Two Cities' for the 'steenth time, I have come to this conclusion:
"Terror is an efficacious agent only when it doesn't last. In the long run there is more terror in threats than in execution, for when you get used to terror your emotions get ​dulled. The incarnation of the White Terror, Robespierre, wasn't awe-inspiring at all to the general public. Mention of his name did not send the children to bed, or make them crawl under the blankets. On the days when he made his great speeches, the galleries and the aisles of the Convention Hall were thronged with women, old and young—that does not look as if Robespierre had been an object of general fear or abomination—does it?"
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark—Regicide

MARK—REGICIDE
"I have been reading up on the laws dealing with regicide," I heard Mark Twain tell Minister Phelps one morning in dead seriousness, "and do you know what they are going to do with me? Three or four things.
"First, they will cut my right hand off, and then hit me on the mouth with it, by way of reproof, I suppose. Second, they'll hari-kari me and build a little fire to do my insides brown—all the time keeping me alive for the rest of the show. That will take some stimulants, I reckon.
"Third, they'll hang me by the neck until I am stone dead. Whether I will get my inards and my hand back before they send me to wormland, I don't know."
"What are you talking about?" queried Mr. Phelps.
"Why, you made me admit yesterday to Count Seckendorff that the judge who sent Charles the First to the block was a near relative of mine. Now, as soon as Willie hears about that, he will have my hands, my inards or anything else he craves of my anatomy."
Of course, everybody roared, and Mr. Phelps had to explain that at dinner the night before, one of the guests, the nobleman mentioned, who was the favorite of the Empress Frederick, had boasted a lot of his ancestry; grandfathers and uncles of his had been present at every great battle the world over and ​had, of course, always fought on the winning side. Later, when the company was looking at some engravings, Mr. Phelps, in a joke, pointed to the figure of a Puritan, saying, with a merry twinkle in his eye:
"Ancestor of mine."
The picture happened to illustrate the trial of Charles the First of England. Now, not to be outdone, Twain pointed to the Lord Judge on the woolsack, and matched Phelps' lie.
"My ancestor, if you please." He made the statement at the very moment when Count Seckendorff looked at the picture. Hence, Mark's awful apprehensions.
"Regicide," he told us, "is never outlawed by the lapse of time. When Charles the First's son was restored to the throne, hundreds of dead regicides were pulled out of their graves by the ears and hanged and quartered. As to the living, they were treated as I described, and I am afraid that if Seckendorff reports me (Willie being half English) I will be punished just as if I had made Charles a head shorter myself, yesterday afternoon."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Monarchical Atavism

MONARCHICAL ATAVISM
One day in Berlin, speaking of General Grant, Mark said, "I did not admire him so much for winning the war as for ending the war. Peace—happiness—brotherhood—that is what we want in this world."
"Here comes the Kaiser," he continued, "and sends me tickets for his September review. Of course I will go. But I don't care for military spectacles, or for militarism. Tolstoy was right in calling army life 'a school for murder.' In Germany to-day there are ten million men drilled to look upon the Kaiser as a god. And if the Kaiser says 'kill'—they kill. And if he says 'die for me'—they go out and get themselves shot. The blame and shame rest with the big and little war lords. As to the German people, mere subjects, they have eighteen or twenty centuries of monarchical atavism in their blood."