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# Royal Naval Biography/Paget, William

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RIGHT HON. LORD WILLIAM PAGET [Post-Captain of 1826.]
Second son of the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, K.G., G.C.B., &c. &c. &c., by Lady Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of the fourth Earl of Jersey.
This officer was born on the 1st of March, 1803; and he appears to have first embarked as midshipman, on board the Severn 50, commanded, pro tempore, by Captain the Hon. Robert C. Spencer, in Mar. 1817. He shortly afterwards followed that officer into the Ganymede 26; and we subsequently find him serving on board the Glasgow and Briton frigates. His first commission beats date April 18th, 1823; from which period he served as a lieutenant of the Aurora 46, Captain Henry Prescott, and Fly 18, acting Commander William F. Martin, on the South American station, until promoted to the command of the Fly, April 20th, 1825. On the 23d of Dec. following, he was appointed to the Philomel sloop, fitting out for the Mediterranean station; and an the 18th of Oct. 1826, advanced to the rank of captain. From ​Nov. 1827 till Feb. 1829, he commanded the Royal Charlotte yacht, at Dublin; and on the 12th of Dec. in the latter year, he was appointed to the North Star 28, in which ship he has already visited Madeira, Barbadoes, Jamaica, Halifax, and Bermuda.
On the 5th of Feb. 1831, a court-martial was assembled at Portsmouth, to enquire into circumstances connected with the punishment and death of William Heritage, a boy belonging to the North Star, and to try Lord William Paget for his conduct on the occasion. On the 7th, having heard the evidence produced by the father of the deceased boy, in support of the charge, and by Lord William in his defence, together with what he had to allege in aid thereof, and having maturely and deliberately weighed and considered the whole, the court decided that the charge of cruelly flogging the said William Heritage had not been proved against the prisoner, but that it was “altogether unfounded and malicious;” and that the death of the boy was in no way to be attributed to the conduct of his captain; that it had been proved that the said boy had received, during the period of his service on board the North Star, only twelve lashes; that the offence committed by the deceased was sufficient to justify the infliction of those lashes; and that the order for the punishment of the boy subsequently given, which appears to have led to his jumping overboard, was also justified by his repeated misconduct. The court did, therefore, adjudge Lord William Paget to be “most fully and most honorably acquitted.”
His lordship married, Jan. 22d, 1827, the only daughter of Lieutenant-General Baron de Rottenburg, Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.
# Royal Naval Biography/Parish, John

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JOHN PARISH, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1817.]
Was senior lieutenant of the Arethusa, Captain (now Sir Charles) Brisbane, at the capture of the Pomona Spanish frigate, near the Havannah, Aug. 23, 1806; and at the conquest of Curaçao, Jan. 1, 1807. Previous to the latter event, a commission had been signed by the Admiralty, promoting him to the rank of commander. His subsequent appointments were to the Onyx and Foxhound, brigs. He was made post, Jan. 1, 1817.
Captain Parish married. Mar. 28, 1815, the only daughter of the late John Craig, of Finsbury, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Pakenham, John

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JOHN PAKENHAM, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1826.]
Son-in-law of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B., &c.
This officer was made a lieutenant, July 16th, 1811; appointed to the Magicienne frigate, Captain the Hon. William Gordon, Aug. 20th, 1812; advanced to the rank of commander, June 15th, 1814 ; appointed to the Bermuda sloop, fitting out for the Jamaica station, Sept. 4th, 1815; and to the Harrier sloop, employed on the coast of Ireland, Aug. 16th, 1825. His commission as captain bears date, Aug. 26th, 1826.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/Palmer, George

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GEORGE PALMER, Esq Admiral of the Blue.
This officer obtained the rank of Post-Captain, Jan. 18, 1783. At the period of the Russian armament, he was appointed to the Perseus, of 20 guns, and commanded that ship on the home station, and at the Leeward Islands, until about the year 1795, when he was removed to the Lion, of 64 guns, and subsequently the Adventure, 44. His promotions as a Flag-officer took place in the same order as those of Admiral Bowater.
# Royal Naval Biography/Paine, Reuben

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REUBEN PAINE, Esq. [Commander.]
Was wounded while serving as midshipman on board the Isis 50, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) James Walker, at the battle of Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801; and again, as senior lieutenant of the Erebus rocket ship. Captain David E. Bartholomew, in the Potowmac river. North America, Sept 6th, 1814. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in Jan. 1809; granted a pension of five shillings per diem, for wounds. May 28th, 1816; made a commander on the 19th June, 1828; and appointed to the coast guard service April 6th, 1831.
This officer married, Dec. 10th, 1817 Miss Cave, of Portsmouth.
# Royal Naval Biography/Parker, Charles (c)

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CHARLES PARKER (c), Esq. [Commander.]
Son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Knt., by his second wife, Frances, youngest daughter of Admiral Sir ​Richard Onslow, G.C.B., Lieutenant-General of the Royal Marines.
This officer entered the royal navy in 1812; and was made lieutenant into the Iphigenia frigate, commanded by his half-brother, Captain Hyde Parker, Jan. 20th, 1820. He subsequently served under Captains George Tyler and Edward Curzon, in the Fly sloop, on the Leith station; and was promoted, Sept. 8th, 1829, from the Barham 50, flagship of the Hon. Charles E. Fleeming, at Jamaica, to the command of the Slaney sloop; which vessel he put out of commission on the 29th Jan. 1831.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/A Rum Story

A RUM STORY.
Mr. Brick died at sixty, leaving a stop of twenty-five to bear his father’s wealth, honors and appetites, which latter he inherited to their fullest extent, adding to them many of his own. A fatal proclivity for punch made him, at the early age of twenty-five a confirmed toper—a shame to his friends and a living example for three temperance societies in the town of B., who regularly held him up at their weekly meetings as a warning for the young. At the outset of his career, he had been waited upon by many committees who requested him to abstain from his evil practices, the first of which, it was said, he plied so hard with his favorite beverage that they were unable to report until the next meeting, when he was pronounced incorrigible. Remonstrance was of no avail, for whenever expostulated with concerning his habit, he, like the wretched chap in Dibdin’s song, “tipped them a can,” and they turned away sorrowing.
Something must be done to check him, but what? Lucky thought——! Young Brick had come home one midnight in a very “glorious” state, according to Burns, and had tumbled up stairs in the most approved manner. Not at the risk of his neck, for the neck of a toper, made supple by the fluids he drinks, is adapted to the most violent circumstances—seen where a series of double somersets is at times thrown from the top of a stair case to the bottom, with no more disadvantage to the individual than the trouble of getting up stairs again. He threw himself upon the floor in a state of half consciousness. What was that? An emphatic thump upon the floor close by his side partially aroused the prostrate Brick, and he lifted his rum and watery eyes to see what it was. A figure in white, larger and terrible, stood by his side.
“Hello!” said he, with a hiccup, “what’s (hic) that?”
“I am thy father’s spirit!” solemnly said the apparition, and throwing out its hands the figure seemed to increase in volume.
“Oh, you are, are you?” said Brick, sobering a little; “you say you are my father’s spirit?”
“Yes!” was the solemn response.
“Then,” said the young reprobate, “as my father was a little man, and you seem to spread over considerable territory, I should judge that his spirit had become terribly diluted.”
The ghost chuckled as it disappeared, and Brick was left to be knocked down by death at thirty-five; a caution to all hard drinkers.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/A Sacrifice

A SACRIFICE.
WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING GAZETTE.
Men may dilate on sacrifices made— On things endured afflictive to be borne, May point to martyrs that have e’en been flayed, And others tortured or by wild beasts torn; May show us courage, with a nerve of steel, And resolution firmer set than bricks, But nought is all to what I may reveal That lately did my wondering eye transfix: I saw a man, whose tender care bestowed, Had reared a “goatee” to perfection’s height, I knew the love that for that tuftlet glowed, As month by month it grew in grace and might, But yet, ah, mighty act, yon summer morn,— A sacrifice was made—the cherished tuft was shorn!
Wideswarth.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/A Wedding

​A Wedding.—We last week received a note announcing to us the marriage of our esteemed correspondent, Miss Anne T. Wilbur, (whose contributions have often graced our columns) to Mr. Joseph Wood, of Marietta, Ohio. The change in her domestic relations will doubtless withdraw her from her literary pursuits in a measure, though we still hope to see her familiar mark in our columns. We wish her all happiness and prosperity in her new sphere, with a gratified remembrance of past pleasant association with her. Prof. Wideswarth hands us the following as an ovation tothe bride:
A bridal wreath!—bring flowers that I may braid A fitting garland for her honored brow: Bring green Remembrance from its quiet shade, And Friendship’s deathless blossoms from the bough; Bring Truth’s white roses from their garden tree, And laurel leaves that Genius best should wear, Bring Admiration’s blooms whose constancy Turns to the sun with a devotion rare. Pluck blessings for her from the upper spheres, And sprinkle them like dews upon the rim, That the fair green may not decay by years, That the bright flowers may not with time grow dim. Thus be my wreath an endless floral round, Within whose circle may all joy be found.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/A Western Boatman

​A Western Boatman.—Some years ago, one of this class took passage for New Orleans, and for several days seemed quite desponding for want of excitement. At last the boat put into Napoleon, in the state of Arkansas, for supplies. Just at that moment there was a general fight, extending all along in front of the town, which, at that time, consisted of a single grocery. The unhappy passenger, fidgetting about, jerking his feet up and down as if they were touching upon hot bricks, inquired of a spectator: “Stranger, ar this a free fight?” The reply was prompt: “Well, it ar. If you want to go in, you needn’t stand on ceremony.” The passenger went in and soon after came out again, appearing to be reasonably satisfied. Groping his way on board, his hair half torn out, his coat in tatters, one eye closed up, and several of his teeth knocked into his throat, he sat down on a hen-cop, and soliquized: “So, this is Napoleon, is it? It’s jeest the most refreshing place I’ve seen in many a day.”
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Antiquities

​Antiquities.—We had the privilege of holding in our hands, on Wednesday in Salem, a phial containing some dozen or more of the identical pins used by the witches in tormenting their victims two hundred years ago. The pins look bright and fresh as though of yesterday’s make. We had likewise shown to us a death warrant against some unfortunate wretch—a witch—with the fatal return of the sheriff on the back, besides many old papers, indictments, &c., relating to the dark points of Salem’s history.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Annexation of Chelsea to Boston

Annexation of Chelsea to Boston.
On Monday our fellow citizens are called upon to vote on the question of re-annexing Chelsea to Boston. The desire for annexation comes from Chelsea, and the petitioners have set forth all the advantages and disadvantages of the measure in a very satisfactory manner, on paper, with a very large average in favor of the scheme. By this statement Boston is to be largely the gainer; Chelsea simply wants to be “re-annexed,” with no ulterior selfishness, or “axe to grind.” She desires no interest in the water, except to pay her interest on the debt, she wishes for no paving or grading the streets either, they are already good enough, the sanatary condition of the town is excellent, there are very few naturalized foreigners there to be made voters of, and if Boston will only take Chelsea under her motherly wing, the whole of its resources and waste lands and other property, and town debt, shall be made right over at once, and put into Mr. Tracy’s hands. The bill passed the legislature very glibly, though opposed by Boston, as almost anything would pass if Boston opposed it, and the committee appointed by the city council upon the subject of annexation, made a strong report against it. We don’t like the scheme, though in favor of consolidation of the cities and towns round about in one confederacy, for like Hugnet in Richelieu, those who appear for the petitioners “bow too low” to be quite sincere in their proposed disinterestedness, and we fear Boston would find herself carrying the heaviest end of the log. But Chelsea is a beautiful town and made up of Boston business people, who are desirous of having their homes under the same government, and while we commend this feeling, and repeat the wish that the union might be effected, there does not seem to be a sufficient mutuality of interest to warrant its being done at the present time. The fact is, Chelsea does wish to participate in the water privileges of Boston, in her schools, her system of grading, her police, and does not offer an equivalent therefor. All the advantages that Chelsea nominally desires by annexation, could be gained by a municipal organization, which its constantly increasing numbers will admit of by another year—its population being upwards of ten thousand. We hope our people will turn out strong on Monday and vote upon this question, which is one of deep interest to Boston.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Circus Thieves

​Circus Thieves.—It is supposed there are organized gangs of pickpockets following in the train of the large circusses at present travelling through the New England states. The number of petty larcenies committed has been very large.
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Another Tremendous Joke

​Another Tremendous Joke.—At Cincinnati, the following immense joke was got off, in sober seriousness. “Mr. George of New Hampshire said he would not stand by and hear the glorious and God-like administration of Franklin Pierce abused.”
# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Boston Light Infantry

​Boston Light Infantry.—This popular corps under command of Capt. C. O. Rogers, paraded as a battallion on Wednesday, and came into line on the common with ninety eight guns, subsequently increased to a hundred. Their full dress uniform, and bear skin caps, gave to the column as they marched through the streets to the music of Dodworth’s celebrated band, a very fine appearance, and the sidewalk committee unanimously agreed that it was the best—as it was in point of numbers, the largest—parade ever made by the Tigers. In the afternoon Major General Edmands and staff, reviewed the corps in presence of thousands of our citizens, and in the evening the corps dined at the American House, where speeches and sentiments were made by Capt. Charles O. Rogers, Maj. Gen. Edmands, Hon. John C. Park, ex-Lieut. W. W. Clapp, Jr., Major Reed, Lieut. W. W. Cook, Lieut. Hathaway, of the Worcester City Guard, and others.
One pleasing feature of the parade, was the appearance in the ranks of Hon. John C. Park, a past commander, who covered his son in the fourth section, and gave assurance that he has not forgotten his drill. Two years since Col. Frank Boyd expressed the hope when Capt. Rogers assumed the command, and turned out sixty-two, that he would never heard less than sixty-two quicksteps behind him. It was a prophetic wish, for every parade has witnessed a gradual increase, and the number is only limited by Gen. Stone, who cannot spare at present another stand of arms.
# Sermons (Massillon)/Translator's Preface

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
TO
THE FIRST LONDON EDITION.
It is equally proper for a Translator, as for an Author, to give some explanation (not apology, for surely a generous public will require none, when the dissemination of virtue is evidently the purpose) of the production which he obtrudes upon the public.
This Translation was at first undertaken merely for the recreation, during illness, of the Translator. His admiration of Massillon’s abilities increasing as he went on, he was induced to continue, far beyond his first intention. That animation, that unction, as D’Alembert says, which flowed from his pen on every subject, — that gentle, yet feeling address to the hearts of his hearers, and to which the most indifferent could not refuse attention, struck him so forcibly, that he could not reflect without surprise that no translation of his works had as yet appeared in English. Impressed with a conviction of their moral tendency, he determined, in consequence of the approbation of some respectable clergymen, his friends, to publish a selection of such as, unconnected with local or temporary events in France, would, in his opinion, be an acceptable present to Christians of every denomination. He now offers the present volume to the Public; and so impressed is he with a sense of its merit, that he is convinced, that ​the weakness or the inaccuracy of the Translation can alone prevent a generous Public from receiving them favourably.
In the Translation he has endeavoured, as much as in him lay, to convey the meaning and sentiments of his original: in doing of which, he may perhaps be thought sometimes too literal; but if the meaning be conveyed, surely the error is on the safest side; for many of our translations may with much more propriety be called paraphrases than translations; and at least in the Translator's opinion, it is much better to err in keeping rather too closely to the text, than by studiously avoiding the appearance of literality, to render the sense both obscure and unintelligible. If the Translator be mistaken, it is an error which in future may easily be corrected; and this being his first publication, he trusts that a generous Public will not cashier a subaltern, because he may not as yet be capable of discharging the duty of a general officer.
The Translator takes this opportunity of returning his acknowledgments to his friends above-mentioned, from whose advice he has reaped many advantages.
# Royal Naval Biography/Paynter, John

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JOHN PAYNTER, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in Aug. 1810; served as flag-lieutenant to LordExmouth, in 1815; and was advanced to his present rank, Nov. 7th, 1815.
# Royal Naval Biography/Pateshall, Nicholas Lechmere

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NICHOLAS LECHMERE PATESHALL, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1815.]
Is the fourth son of Edmund Pateshall, of Allensmore, co. Hereford, Esq. He first embarked in Aug. 1795, and served the whole of his time as a midshipman, under Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth, in the Indefatigable frigate, and Impétueux of 80 guns. The principal services in which he participated during the first six years of his professional life are detailed at p. 216 et seq. of Vol. I. Part I.
In Aug. 1801, Mr. Pateshall received an order to act as lieutenant of the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of the Hon. William Cornwallis, which appointment was confirmed by the Admiralty, Nov. 20 following. In 1803 and 1804, we find him circumnavigating the globe, in the Calcutta 50, Captain Daniel Woodriff. On his return from that interesting voyage, he again joined the Ville de Paris, and continued in her until Admiral Cornwallis resigned the command of the Channel fleet, in June 1806. He was then appointed to the Kent 74, Captain Thomas Rogers, under whom he served as first lieutenant for a period of four years.
The Kent accompanied Earl St. Vincent to Lisbon, in the summer of 1806; and was afterwards sent to the Mediterranean, where her boats captured, at different times, upwards of 30 merchant vessels and small cruisers (including ​a Turkish corvette), and spiked the guns of many batteries, principally in the Gulf of Genoa.
This officer subsequently proceeded to Jamaica, where he was made commander, July 24, 1811, and successively appointed to the Shark sloop. Reindeer brig, and Polyphemus 64. On the 7th Oct. 1813, he obtained the command of the Adder, a new 12-gun brig, fitting at Portsmouth, in which vessel he was employed for a short time on the north coast of Spain, and afterwards sent to the Halifax station; where he received an appointment to the Jaseur 16, dated June 7, 1814. His promotion to post rank took place Feb. 18, 1815, after which he commanded the Carron 20, on the coast of America, in the West Indies, at Bermuda, and Newfoundland. He was put out of commission at Portsmouth, in Aug. 1816.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part. II. p. 641 et seq.
* ↑ See Suppl. Part II. p.363.
# Royal Naval Biography/Patey, Joseph

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JOSEPH PATEY, Esq. [Commander.]
Was a midshipman on board the Lion 64, Captain (now Sir Manley) Dixon; and one of the only two persona at all hurt in an action with four Spanish frigates, on the Mediterranean station, July 15th, 1798. He obtained his first commission on the 6th of Sept. 1802; and subsequently served as flag-lieutenant to the above officer, by whom he was successively appointed to the command of a small corvette, borrowed from the Brazilian Government; to act as captain of la Ceres French frigate, captured on the South American station, and of the Aquilon 24; and to the pro-tempore command of the Albacore sloop, which he retained from April, 1814, until superseded on his return home, in July, 1815. His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the second day after his supercession.
# Royal Naval Biography/Patton, Robert

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ROBERT PATTON, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1827.]
Son of Retired-Captain Charles Patton, R.N., late igent of Transports at Portsmouth.
This officer was made a lieutenant Nov. 13th, 1810; appointed to the Loire and Junon frigates, Captains Thomas Brown and Clotworthy Upton, April 12th, 1813, and Nov. 4th, 1814; advanced to the rank of commander, June 13th, 1815; and presented with the honorary medallion of the Royal Humane Society, April 13th, 1826. His commission as captain bears date April 30th, 1827, at which period he commanded the Trinculo sloop, on the Irish station.
# Royal Naval Biography/Payne, Charles Frederick

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CHARLES FREDERICK PAYNE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Received his first commission April 18, 1799; and was senior lieutenant of l’Immortalité frigate. Captain Edward C. R. Owen, at the bombardment of Dieppe and St. Valery-en-Caux, Sept. 14, 1803, from which period he served under the same excellent officer until promoted to the rank of commander, Dec. 26, 1806.
On the 26th Sept. 1809, Captain Payne was appointed to the Cretan brig, in which vessel he captured the Neptune Danish privateer, of 5 guns and 24 men, on the North Sea station, Oct. 28, 1810. His post commission bears date June 7, 1814.
Captain Payne subsequently commanded the St. Lawrence 102, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edward Owen, at Kingston, on Lake Ontario. He married, in 1811, Miss Elizabeth Bryer, of Dorchester.
# Royal Naval Biography/Patton, Hugh

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HUGH PATTON, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1819.]
Son of the late Governor Patton, of the island of St. Helena; and brother-in-law to Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B. &c. &c.
This officer obtained the rank of lieutenant, Feb. 1, 1811; and was promoted to the command of the Fairy sloop, Dec. 6, 1813. His advancement to post rank took place, Aug. 12th, 1819; since which he has commanded the Rattlesnake 28, ​on the West India station, for the usual period of three years.