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# Royal Naval Biography/Macworth Praed, Bulkley

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BULKLEY MACWORTH PRAED, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is related to the London banker of the same name; and a protege of the late Earl St. Vincent. He commanded the Crash gun-brig during Sir Home Popham’s expedition against Ostend in May, 1798; and was captured by the enemy on the coast of Holland, Aug. 26, in the same year. His commission as Commander is dated April 21, 1799; and that of Post-Captain April 29, 1802. During the late war he held an appointment in the Sea Fencible service.
# Royal Naval Biography/Maingy, Peter

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PETER MAINGY, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Sept. 1807; advanced to his present rank on the 13th of June, 1815; and appointed an inspecting commander, in the coast guard service, July 6th, 1830.
# Royal Naval Biography/Madden, Charles

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CHARLES MADDEN, Esq. [Commander.]
A son of the late Captain Madden, of Portsmouth, agent for officers of the royal marines; and brother to Mr. Lewis Madden, master of the ceremonies at Southampton.
This officer was made lieutenant into the Wasp sloop. Captain Thomas Wren Carter, at Jamaica, Sept. 23d, 1819; appointed to the Ringdove 18, Captain George F. Rich, fitting out for the West India station, Dec. 3d, 1822; and advanced to the rank of commander Mar. 30th, 1829.
# Royal Naval Biography/Jane, Henry

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HENRY JANE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1825.]
Was an acting lieutenant of the Renown 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, and commanded a boat belonging to that ship, at the capture of la Nochette French gun-vessel, two armed chasse-marées, and eight sail of merchantmen, laden with supplies for the Brest fleet, June 11th, 1800. He was promoted to the command of the Indian sloop (after acting for some time in l’Observateur), May 10th, 1810; appointed to the Arab, on the Halifax station, July 5th, 1813; and advanced to the rank of captain. May 27th, 1825.
Agents.– Messrs. Stillwell.
# Royal Naval Biography/James, Jacob

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JACOB JAMES, Esq. [Commander.]
Received his first commission in 1784; served as senior lieutenant of the Victory, first rate, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, at the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14th, 1797; and was promoted to the rank of commander on the 7th March following.
# Royal Naval Biography/James, James

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JAMES JAMES, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 16th Nov. 1790; and subsequently commanded the hired armed brig Alfred, the Eagle prison-ship, and the Buckingham, Matilda, and Argonaut hospital-ships, in the latter of which he continued, off Chatham, for nearly twenty-four years. He was made a commander on the 1st of July, 1828.
# Royal Naval Biography/Jauncey, Henry Fyge

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HENRY FYGE JAUNCEY, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1821.]
Was second lieutenant of the Ethalion frigate. Captain (now Vice -Admiral) James Young, at the capture of a Spanish galleon, Oct. 17, 1799 His share of prize-money, on that occasion, amounted to more than 5000l. He soon afterwards suffered shipwreck on the coast of France, while serving under the command of Captain John Clarke Searle, from whose narrative of the loss of the Ethalion we make the following extract:–
“I wish it was in my power to describe the very great merit of all the officers and ship’s company; sure I am their exertions, their promptness in executing my orders, and the steady perseverance they shewed, were never on any other occasion exceeded: for in no similar instance was there ever less confusion.”
Lieutenant Jauncey subsequently commanded the Griper and Cracker, gun-brigs. In the latter vessel, he captured a small French privateer, Nov. 20, 1810. He was advanced to the rank of commander, Feb. 1, 1812 ; appointed to the Hope, of 10 guns, June 7, 1814; re-appointed to the same sloop, Sept. 6, 1815; and posted, July 19, 1821.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford and Son.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 684.
* ↑ See id. p. 729.
* ↑ See Schomberg’s Nav. Chronology, III. 221.
# Royal Naval Biography/Jekyll, John

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JOHN JEKYLL, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant towards the close of 1796; and commander on the 21st Mar. 1812. Previous to this latter promotion, he had displayed much ingenuity in contriving the common hand-pump to serve as a fire-engine on board ships; and some years afterwards, obtained a patent for certain improvements in steam or vapour baths, to render the same more portable and convenient than those then in ​common use. In Dec. 1823, he presented the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, with an excellent break for shoeing oxen, which had been in use for some years, and was placed in the cattle yard of the society. He at the same time exhibited a portable vapour bath, which had been highly approved of by H.R.H. the Duke of York, also by several of the most intelligent and respectable medical men of the army and navy, and is now used in some of the metropolitan hospitals. He likewise displayed a model of a mail-coach, to prevent the pressure of the vehicle against the horses, in descending hills. If, as has been said, steam is a powerful and successful agent in the yellow fever of the West Indies, the typhus fever, and the cholera morbus of India, Commander Jekyll’s vapour bath must be of great importance to both services.
# Royal Naval Biography/Jenkinson, Henry

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HENRY JENKINSON, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Eldest son of Lieutenant-General John Jenkinson. He was made lieutenant, Dec. 11, 1800; promoted to the command of the Jasper brig, Aug. 13, 1812; and posted June 7, 1814.
Captain Jenkinson married a daughter of the late Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/James, Edwin

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EDWIN JAMES, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Dec. 1799; and presented with the Turkish gold medal, for his services on the coast of Egypt, during the campaign of 1801. We next find him serving as first of the Union 98, in which ship, successively commanded by Captains Samuel Hood Linzee, William Kent, and Robert Rolles, he continued from Mar. 1812 until advanced to the command of a prize brig, at Genoa, May 17th, 1814.
On the 3d June, 1812, Andrew Abchurch, ordinary seaman on board the Union, then on her passage from Plymouth to the Mediterranean, sent word to Captain Linzee, through the first lieutenant, that he wished to speak to him. Captain Linzee went upon the quarter-deck with Mr. James, to hear what he had to say, when Abchurch, in a low tone of voice, said there was a mutiny in the ship. On the captain asking what he said, he replied “There is a mutiny in the ship – take that – I am the man;” and at the same instant plunged a knife into his commander’s breast. The blow was evidently aimed at the heart; but either from Captain Linzee suddenly turning, or from the confusion of the assassin, the knife penetrated obliquely between the sixth and seventh ribs three inches deep, struck the breast bone, and then turned to the right side instead of the left. The man was instantly secured; and on the arrival of the ship at Lisbon (into which port it was necessary to go, for the preservation of Captain Linzee’s life) he was tried by a court-martial, sentenced to death, and executed. He was repeatedly urged, in the most solemn manner, by the chaplain of the Union, to declare what his motives were for attempting so atrocious a deed, and he unequivocally declared he never had received any sort of treatment from Captain Linzee which could justify it; but that a sudden thought came into his mind that he ​must commit murder, and he then determined to do so on the captain, to which he thought he must have been instigated by the devil. He exculpated his shipmates, not one of whom, he said, had the slightest knowledge of his intention; and added, that he should die in peace if his intended victim would forgive him.
The necessity of being kept in a tranquil state, compelled Captain Linzee to resign his command; and he consequently returned home in the Sabrina sloop of war. His successor. Captain William Kent, died on board the Union, off the mouth of the Rhone, Aug. 29th, 1812.
# Royal Naval Biography/Janvrin, Richard Gaire

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RICHARD GAIRE JANVRIN, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
We first find this officer serving as a midshipman under Sir W. Sidney Smith, at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in 1799. Whilst thus employed he was wounded by a musket-ball passing through the muscle under his left arm, but which does not appear to have incapacitated him for more than a few weeks. On his recovery he was entrusted by his heroic chief with the command of the flotilla on the coast of Damietta. He next joined the flag-ship of Lord Keith, who, we believe, gave him a commission, in the year 1800.
From this period we lose sight of Captain Janvrin until he received an appointment to a command in the flotilla attached to the Walcheren expedition. The evacuation of that island being at length determined upon, he was then charged by Sir Richard J. Strachan with the duties of the port of Flushing, and Commodore (now Sir Edward) Owen, who conducted the retreat from ​that place, officially acknowledged that he found in him “a most zealous second and supporter.” The bravery and spirit manifested by the officers and crews of the gun-boats, and their cheerful submission to the necessary privations of that peculiar service, have been noticed at p. 71 et seq. of Suppl. Part I. – “All” says Sir Richard J. Strachan, “supported the character of British seamen!”
Captain Janvrin’s post commission bears date, Oct. 21, 1810. He married the widow of Lieutenant Lord, R.N.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
# Royal Naval Biography/Jeffery, Samuel

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SAMUEL JEFFERY, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 13th Feb. 1805, and advanced to his present rank Feb. 23d, 1807.
# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 5/Book 1

PART V. THE BOOKS OF KÂU.
Book I. The Great Declaration.
Kâu is the dynastic designation under which king Wû and his descendants possessed the throne from B.C. 1122 to 256, a period of 867 years. They traced their lineage up to Khî, who was Minister of Agriculture under Shun. He was invested with the principality of Thâi, the present district of Fû-făng, department of Făng-hsiang, Shen-hsî. Long afterwards Than-fû, claiming to be one of his descendants, appears in B.C. 1326, founding the state of Kâu, near mount Khî, in the same department of Făng-hsiang. This Than-fû was the great-grandfather of king Wû. The family surname was Kî.
When the collection of the Shû was complete, it contained thirty-eight different documents of the Kâu dynasty, of which twenty-eight remain, twenty of them being of undisputed genuineness.
This first Book, 'the Great Declaration,' is one of the contested portions; and there is another form of it, that takes the place of this in some editions. It has appeared in the Introduction that the received text of the Shû was formed with care, and that everything of importance in the challenged Books is to be found in quotations from them, while the collection was complete, that have been gathered up by the industry of scholars.
King Wû, having at last taken the field against Kâu-hsin, the tyrant of Shang, made three speeches to his officers and men, setting forth the reasons for his enterprise, and urging them to exert themselves with him in the cause of humanity and Heaven. They are brought together, and constitute 'the Great Declaration.'
'In the first Part,' says a Chinese critic, 'king Wû addresses himself to the princes and nobles of inferior rank; in the second, to their hosts; and in the third, to his officers. The ruling idea in the first is the duty of the sovereign,—what he ought to be ​and to do; with this it begins and ends. There is not the same continuity of thought in the second, but the will and purpose of Heaven is the principal thing insisted on. The last Part shows the difference between the good sovereign and the bad, and touches on the consent that there is between Heaven and men. There is throughout an unsparing exhibition of the wickedness of Kâu-hsin.
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# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 4/Book 8

Book VIII. The Charge to Yüeh.
After Pan-kăng came the reigns of Hsiâo-hsin and Hsiâo-yî, of which we have no accounts in the Shû. Hsiâo-yî was followed by Wû-ting (B.C. 1324–1264), to the commencement of whose reign this Book, in three sections, belongs. His name is not in it, but that he is the king intended appears from the prefatory notice, and the Confucian Analects, XIV, xliii. The Book is the first of the 'Charges' of the Shû. They relate the designation by the king of some officer to a particular charge or to some fief, with the address delivered by him on the occasion. Here the charge is to Yüeh, in the first section, on his appointment to be ​chief minister. In the other two sections Yüeh is the principal speaker, and not the king. They partake more of the nature of the 'Counsels.' Yüeh had been a recluse, living in obscurity. The king's attention was drawn to him in the manner related in the Book, and he was discovered in Fû-yen, or amidst 'the Crags of Fû,' from which he was afterwards called Fû Yüeh, as if Fû had been his surname.
The first section tells us how the king met with Yüeh, and appointed him to be his chief minister, and how Yüeh responded to the charge that he received. In the second section, Yüeh counsels the king on a variety of points, and the king responds admiringly. In the third, the king introduces himself as a pupil at the feet of Yüeh, and is lectured on the subject of enlarging his knowledge. In the end the king says that he looks to Yüeh as another Î Yin, to make him another Thang.
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# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 4/Book 9

Book IX. The Day of the Supplementary Sacrifice to Kâo Zung.
Kâo Zung was the title given to Wû-ting, after his death, in the ancestral temple. A supplementary sacrifice was offered on the day following the regular and more solemn service. What special idea was connected with it, it would be difficult to say; ​but at the close of it, the representatives or personators of the dead in the sacrifice of the preceding day were all feasted.
The title of this short Book leaves it uncertain whether the sacrifice was offered to Wû-ting or by him. The prefatory notice proceeds on the former view. Many critics of great intelligence decide for the latter, which a renewed consideration of the text has induced me to adopt. The king then is Zu-kăng, Wû-ting's son. Something irregular or excessive in his sacrificing to his father was the thing which his monitor Zû Kî wished to censure, taking occasion to do so from the incident mentioned in the first sentence.
On the day of the supplementary sacrifice of Kâo Zung, there appeared a crowing pheasant. Zû Kî said, 'To rectify this affair, the king must first be corrected.' He delivered accordingly a lesson to the king, saying, 'In its inspection of men below, Heaven's first consideration is of their righteousness, and it bestows on them (accordingly) length of years or the contrary.* It is not Heaven that cuts short men's lives; they bring them to an end themselves. Some men who have not complied with virtue will yet not acknowledge their offences, and when Heaven has by evident tokens charged them to correct their conduct, they still say, "What are these things to us?"
'Oh! your Majesty's business is to care reverently for the people. And all (your ancestors) were the heirs of (the kingdom by the gift of) Heaven;—in attending to the sacrifices (to them), be not so excessive in those to your father.'*
# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 4/Book 8/Section 2

Section 2.
1. Yüeh having received his charge, and taken the presidency of all the officers, he presented himself before the king, and said, 'Oh! intelligent kings act in reverent accordance with the ways of Heaven. The founding of states and the setting up of capitals, the appointing of sovereign kings, of dukes and other nobles, with their great officers and heads of departments, were not designed to minister to the idleness and pleasures (of one), but for the good government of the people. It is Heaven which is all-intelligent and observing;—let the sage (king) take it as his pattern.* Then his ministers will reverently accord with him, and the people consequently will be well governed.
'It is the mouth that gives occasion for shame; they are the coat of mail and helmet that give occasion to war. The upper robes and lower garments (for reward should not be lightly taken from) their chests; before spear and shield are used, one should examine himself. If your Majesty will be cautious in regard to these things, and, believing this about them, attain to the intelligent use of them, (your government) will in everything be excellent. Good government and bad depend on the various officers. Offices should not be given to men because they are favourites, but only to men of ability. Dignities should not be conferred on men of evil practices, but only on men of worth.
​'Anxious thought about what will be best should precede your movements, which also should be taken at the time proper for them. Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness; being vain of one's ability is the way to lose the merit it might produce.
'For all affairs let there be adequate preparation;—with preparation there will be no calamitous issue. Do not open the door for favourites, from whom you will receive contempt. Do not be ashamed of mistakes, and (go on to) make them crimes. Let your mind rest in its proper objects, and the affairs of your government will be pure. Officiousness in sacrificing is called irreverence;* and multiplying ceremonies leads to disorder. To serve the spirits acceptably (in this way) is difficult.'*
2. The king said, 'Excellent! your words, O Yüeh, should indeed be put in practice (by me). If you were not so good in counsel, I should not have heard these rules for my conduct." Yüeh did obeisance with his head to the ground, and said, 'It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing. (But) since your Majesty truly knows this, there will not be the difficulty, and you will become really equal in complete virtue to our first king. Wherein I, Yüeh, refrain from speaking (what I ought to speak), the blame will rest with me.'
# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 4/Book 7/Section 3

Section 3.
1. Pan-kăng having completed the removal, and settled the places of residence, proceeded to adjust the several positions (of all classes at an assembly); and then he soothed and comforted the multitudes, saying to them, 'Do not play nor be idle, but exert yourselves to build (here) a great destiny (for us).
'Now I have disclosed my heart and belly, my reins and bowels, and fully declared to you, my people, all my mind. I will not treat any of you as offenders; and do not you (any more) help one another to be angry, and form parties to defame me, the One man.
'Of old, my royal predecessor, (Thang), that his merit might exceed that of those who were before him, proceeded to the hill-site. Thereby he removed our evils, and accomplished admirable good for our country. Now you, my people, were by (your position) dissipated and separated, so that you had no abiding place. (And yet) you asked why I was troubling your myriads and requiring you to remove. But God, being about to renew the virtuous service of my high ancestor, and secure the good order of our kingdom, I, with the sincere and respectful (of my ministers), felt a reverent care for the lives of the people, and have made a lasting settlement in (this) new city.*
'I, a youth, did not neglect your counsels;—I (only) used the best of them. Nor did any of ​you presumptuously oppose the decision of the tortoise-shell;—so we are here to enlarge our great inheritance.'*
2. 'Oh! ye chiefs of regions, ye heads of departments, all ye, the hundreds of officers, would that ye had a sympathy (with my people)! I will exert myself in the choice and guiding of you;—do ye think reverently of my multitudes. I will not employ those who are fond of enriching themselves; but will use and revere those who are vigorously, yet reverently, labouring for the lives and increase of the people, nourishing them and planning for their enduring settlement.
'I have now brought forward and announced to you my mind, whom I approve and whom I disallow;—let none of you but reverence (my will). Do not seek to accumulate wealth and precious things, but in fostering the life of the people, seek to find your merit. Reverently display your virtue in behalf of the people. For ever maintain this one purpose in your hearts.'
# Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shu/Part 4/Book 8/Section 1

Section 1.
1. The king passed the season of sorrow in the mourning shed for three years, and when the period of mourning was over, he (still) did not speak (to give any commands). All the ministers remonstrated with him, saying, 'Oh! him who is (the first) to apprehend we pronounce intelligent, and the intelligent man is the model for others. The Son of Heaven rules over the myriad regions, and all the officers look up to and reverence him. They are the king's words which form the commands (for them). If he do not speak, the ministers have no way to receive their orders.' On this the king made a writing, for their information, to the following effect:—'As it is mine to serve as the ​director for the four quarters (of the kingdom), I have been afraid that my virtue is not equal to (that of my predecessors), and therefore have not spoken. (But) while I was reverently and silently thinking of the (right) way, I dreamt that God gave me a good assistant who should speak for me.'* He then minutely recalled the appearance (of the person whom he had seen), and caused search to be made for him everywhere by means of a picture. Yüeh, a builder in the wild country of Fû-yen, was found like to it.
2. On this the king raised and made (Yüeh) his prime minister, keeping him (also) at his side.
He charged him, saying, 'Morning and evening present your instructions to aid my virtue. Suppose me a weapon of steel;—I will use you for a whetstone. Suppose me crossing a great stream;—I will use you for a boat with its oars. Suppose me in a year of great drought;—I will use you as a copious rain. Open your mind, and enrich my mind. (Be you) like medicine, which must distress the patient, in order to cure his sickness. (Think of me) as one walking barefoot, whose feet are sure to be wounded, if he do not see the ground.
'Do you and your companions all cherish the same mind to assist your sovereign, that I may follow my royal predecessors, and tread in the steps of my high ancestor, to give repose to the millions of the people. Oh! respect this charge of mine;—so shall you bring your work to a (good) end.'
3. Yüeh replied to the king, saying, 'Wood by the use of the line is made straight, and the sovereign who follows reproof is made sage. When the sovereign can (thus) make himself sage, his ministers, ​without being specially commanded, anticipate his orders;—who would dare not to act in respectful compliance with this excellent charge of your Majesty?'