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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rivers, William Thomas

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​RIVERS. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 0.)
William Thomas Rivers, born 3 April, 1814, at Sheerness, is son of Lieut. Wm. Rivers, R.N. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital, and was presented on leaving with a watch and two medals.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 May, 1829, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Basilisk 10, Lieut.- Commanders Wm. Barber Watts and Wright, with whom he served in the North Sea and on the northern coast of England until paid off in Feb. 1831 – the last nine months in the capacity of Midshipman. During that period he miraculously saved a seaman who had fallen overboard in the river Thames, and a whole boat’s crew who had been upset in North Shields harbour. In June, 1831, he joined the Alfred 50, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the Mediterranean station; where, after having witnessed the establishment of King Otho on the throne of Greece and been for some time employed in watching the movements of the hostile fleets of Turkey and Egypt, he was discharged, in July, 1834, into the Spitfire steamer, Lieut.-Commander Andrew Kennedy. When subsequently in the West Indies he twice proved instrumental to the preservation of that vessel from destruction by fire; on one occasion he crawled under the boilers with the engine-hose and extinguished the flames round the mast. During a hurricane which had blown the Spitfire out of Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, Mr. Rivers again had the good fortune of snatching from a watery grave a boat’s crew who had been likewise driven to sea. After serving for about two years in the West Indies as Mate of the Vestal 26, Capt. Wm. Jones, under vhom he contributed to the capture of four slave-vessels, he joined, in Nov. 1837, the Calliope 26, Capt. Thos. Herbert, fitting for the South American station, whence he proceeded to China. During the hostilities in that part of the world he assisted in a very creditable manner in the boats at the capture of the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee, and served in the boats and on shore, and was wounded, during the operations connected with the first and second capture of Canton. As a reward for his conduct he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 June, 1841. Prior to the receipt of his commission he had followed Capt. Herbert into the Blenheim 72. He then became First of the Sulphur 8, Capt. Edw. Belcher; and was subsequently appointed – 15 Sept. 1841, as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies – 15 Sept. 1842, as First, to the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Henry Dilkes Byng at Jamaica, where the exertions he displayed in rescuing under very perilous circumstances the stores from the wreck of H.M. steamer Megaera procured him the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief – 23 March, 1843, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke, employed on the West India and African stations – and 12 Nov. 1846 (a few months after the latter vessel had been paid off), to the command, which he retained until 1848, of the Nautilus 10, in the Channel.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1222.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1603, 1506, 2512.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roberts, Daniel

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​ROBERTS. (Retired Captain, 1845.)
Daniel Roberts entered the Navy, 30 July, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Overyssel 64, Capt. John Bazely, stationed at the Nore. Continuing in that ship for a period of not more than four months, he next, in Aug. 1801, joined, for a few weeks, the Royal William, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, at Portsmouth. From June to Oct. 1802 he served as Midshipman on board the Blenheim, Capt. Philip Turner Bower; from June, 1803, to May, 1805, he was employed with much activity in the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; and from Aug. in the latter year until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 12 July, 1809, he was stationed on the coast of France in the Penelope 36 and, as Master’s Mate, in the Illustrious 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton. After serving for rather more than two years on the Home and East India stations in the Phoenix 36, Capt. Zachary Mudge, and Illustrious 74, bearing the broad pendant of his former Captain, Broughton (under whom he co-operated in the reduction of the island of Java), he was nominated, 30 Sept. 1811, Acting-Commander of the Barracouta sloop. That vessel, however, he never had an opportunity of joining. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 16 May, 1812; and his last appointment, to the Hydra troop-ship, 15 Sept. 1815. In that ship he served on the Baltic, Newfoundland, Halifax, and West India stations.
He accepted his present rank 25 June, 1845. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roberts, Edward Forward

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​ROBERTS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edward Forward Roberts entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 26 June, 1828; passed his examination 13 April, 1833; and after having served for a time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Inconstant 36, Capts. Dan. Pring and Fred. Thos. Michell, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841. His appointments have since been – 9 Nov. 1843, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nich. Lockyer, on the Home station – 23 Nov. 1846, to the command, after a few months of half-pay, of the Myrmidon steamer of 150-horse power, ​employed on particular service – and, 9 Nov. 1847, to that of the Porcupine, another steam-vessel, of 140 horse-power, now in the Mediterranean.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ritchie, Thomas

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​RITCHIE. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Ritchie entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diligence sloop, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the Leith station. In Aug. 1805 he followed Capt. Kerr, as Midshipman, into the Combatant, another sloop, in which he continued employed in the Channel and Baltic under Capt. Alex. Rich. M‘Kenzie, until taken prisoner, 17 Sept. 1807. On being exchanged in the spring of 1809, he joined the Courageux 74, Capts. Robt. Plampin, Wm. Butterfield, and Philip Wilkinson; under the first-mentioned of whom we find him, in the course of the same year, accompanying the expedition to the Walcheren. He subsequently proceeded to the Baltic; where, after serving for about 12 months in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he was nominated, 4 May, 1812, Acting-Lieutenant of the Ariel sloop, Capt. Dan. Ross. He was confirmed to that vessel 10 July, 1812; and was lastly, from 24 May, 1813, until Feb. 1816, employed at Leith in the Cherokee 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roberts, Duncan

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​ROBERTS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
Duncan Roberts entered the Navy (into which he was impressed from the Merchant Service, wherein he held a very promising position), 25 Jan. 1806, as A.B., on board the Spencer 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford; and on 6 Feb. following was present in the action off St. Domingo. Removing, in July of the same year, to the Captain 74, Capts. Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, and Jas. Athol Wood, he assisted soon afterwards at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, of the French frigate Le Président. While in escort, with one or two other ships-of-the-line, of a convoy of transports bound to Buenos Ayres, the Captain, towards the close of 1806, fell in with a French squadron, and was obliged to put into St. Jago, in the Cape de Verde Islands, where together with her consorts and charge she lay for four weeks blockaded. During that period one of the enemy’s vessels, a corvette of 26 guns, was attacked and captured by the British boats, in which Mr. Roberts, who held the rating of Quartermaster, was one of the persons present. In 1807 he accompanied, under Capt. Wolley, the expedition against Copenhagen. Pending the siege he landed with a party of seamen and assisted a few troops belonging to the 79th Regt. in capturing a small Danish battery. His conduct on this occasion was gallant and was reported as such by the conducting military officer, Capt. Cameron. Continuing in the Captain, Mr. Roberts further witnessed the surrender of Madeira, the reduction of Marie-Galante, Martinique, and other French islands, and the capture of the French 74-gun ship D’Haupoult. For special services rendered several months prior to the taking of Martinique he had been awarded the rating of Master’s Mate. He continued employed with Capt. Wood in that capacity on board the Neptune 98 and Pompée 74 in the West Indies and Bay of Biscay, and also in the Mediterranean (where he took part in several skirmishes with the French fleet and beheld the fall of Genoa), until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 15 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Robb, John

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​ROBB. (Captain, 1841.)
John Robb entered the Navy 8 July, 1812; passed his examination in 1819; and while attached to the Naiad 46, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, contributed in her boats to the brilliant destruction, on the night of 23 May, 1824, of a 16-gun brig moored in a position of extraordinary strength alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona, in which was a garrison of about 400 men, who from cannon and musket kept up a tremendous fire almost perpendicularly on the deck. Being made Lieutenant, 16 March, 1827, into the Asia 84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington in the Mediterranean, he commanded a tender belonging to that ship (the Hind cutter) at the battle of Navarin, where the services he rendered had the effect of procuring him a second promotal commission dated 1 May, 1829. From 24 Oct. 1836 until posted, on his return to England, 22 Feb. 1841, he commanded the Satellite 18, on the North America and West India station. Since 12 Dec. 1845 he has been employed in the Channel and Mediterranean in the Gladiator steam-vessel of 430-horse power.
In Feb. 1845 Capt. Robb was sent out, in conjunction with Capts. Henry John Codrington and Jas. Crawford Caffin, in the Black Eagle, on an experimental cruize with the royal steam-yacht Victoria and Albert and Rattler (screw) steamer, for the purpose of reporting on the capabilities of those vessels.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roberton, John Sherbrooke

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​ROBERTON. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
John Sherbrooke Roberton died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy 24 April, 1830; passed his examination 17 Oct. 1836; and from 1840 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 Nov. 1843, was employed in the Mediterranean, in attendance on the Queen off Walmer, and at the Cape of Good Hope, as Mate, in the Thunderer 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Dan. Pring. He was nominated, 26 Jan. 1844, Additional of the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the East Indies; and from 30 July following until the close of 1846 he served on that station in the Samarang surveying-vessel, Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher.
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) from The Book of Gems

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A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) From The Book of Gems
collected by Peter J. Bolton
* Little Red Riding Hood
The following poems in this volume can be found elsewhere:
* The First Grave
* The Moon
* Venice
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Findens’ Tableaux, 1837

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* Arabia. The Arab Maid
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Emmanuel, 1830

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A Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Emmanuel, 1830
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* The Pilgrim
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir, 1833

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* On a Picture Representing an Italian Contadina and her Family
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The National Magazine, and Dublin Literary Gazette Volume II, 1831

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A Poem of Felicia Hemans In The National Magazine, and Dublin Literary Gazette Volume II, 1831
Compiled by Peter J. Bolton
* On Christ Bearing the Cross
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The National Magazine, and Dublin Literary Gazette Volume II, 1831/On Christ Bearing the Cross

The National Magazine, and Dublin Literary Gazette Volume II, 1831, Pages 33-34
ON CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS,
A PICTURE BY VELASQUEZ IN THE COLLECTION OF THE HON. AND REV. J. POMEROY.
By the dark stillness brooding in the sky,
Holiest of Sufferers! round thy path of woe,
And by the weight of mortal agony
Laid on thy dropping form, and pale, meek brow,
My heart was aw'd: the burden of thy pain
Sank on me with a mystery and a chain.
I look'd once more—and, as the virtue shed
Forth from thy robe of old, so fell a ray
Of victory from thy mein! And round thy head
The halo, melting spirit-like away,
Seemed of the very soul's bright rising, born
To glorify all sorrow, shame, and scorn!
And upwards, through transparent darkness gleaming,
Gaz'd, in mute reverence, Woman's earnest eye,
Lit, as a vase whence inward light is streaming,
With quenchless faith and deep love's fervency,
Gathering, like incense round some dim veiled shrine,
About the Form, so mournfully divine!
Oh! let thine image, as e'en there it rose,
Live in my soul for ever, calm and clear,
Making itself a temple of repose,
Beyond the breath of human hope or fear!
A holy place, where, through all storms, may lie
One living beam of dayspring from on high!F. H.
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) from The Book of Gems/Little Red Riding Hood

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​This plate does not appear in The Book of Gems but was attached to the poem later. The poem appeared in The Court Journal, 8th August 1835, with the description: Lines Suggested by the Engraving of Landseer’s Picture. This engraving is not currently freely available for reproduction.
* Inskipp Simmons
* LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
Come back, come back together,
 All ye fancies of the past,
Ye days of April weather,
 Ye shadows that are cast By the haunted hours before!
Come back, come back, my childhood;
 Thou art summon'd by a spell
From the green leaves of the wild wood,
 From beside the charmed well!
 For Red Riding Hood, the darling,— The flower of fairy lore.
The fields were covered over
 With colours, as she went;
Daisy, buttercup, and clover,
 Below her footsteps bent.
Summer shed its shining store,
She was happy as she prest them  Beneath her little feet;
She pluck'd them and caress'd them;—
 They were so very sweet,
They had never seemed so sweet before,
 To Red Riding Hood, the darling,—
The flower of fairy lore.
How the heart of childhood dances
 Upon a sunny day!
It has its own romances,
 And a wide, wide world have they!
A world where phantasie is king,
Made all of eager dreaming,—  When once grown up and tall;
Now is the time for scheming,
 Then we shall do them all!
Do such pleasant fancies spring
 For Red Riding Hood, the darling,— The flower of fairy lore.
She seems like an ideal love,
 The poetry of childhood shown,
And yet loved with a real love,
 As if she were our own; A younger sister for the heart;
Like the woodland pheasant,
 Her hair is brown and bright;
And her smile is pleasant,
 With its rosy light.
Never can the memory part
 With Red Riding Hood, the darling,—
The flower of fairy lore.
Did the painter, dreaming
 In a morning hour,
Catch the fairy seeming
 Of this fairy flower?
Winning it with eager eyes,
From the old enchanted stories,
 Lingering with a long delight,
On the unforgotten glories
 Of the infant sight?
Giving us a sweet surprise
 In Red Riding Hood, the darling,— The flower of fairy lore?
Too long in the meadow staying,
 Where the cowslip bends,
With the buttercups delaying
 As with early friends,
Did the little maiden stay.
Sorrowful the tale for us,
 We, too, loiter mid life's flowers,
A little while so glorious,
 So soon lost in darker hours.
All love lingering on their way,
 Like Red Riding Hood, the darling,—
The flower of fairy lore.
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Emmanuel, 1830/The Pilgrim

Taken from a review in The Literary Gazette, 14th November 1829, page 742
Emmanuel: a Christian Tribute of Affection and Duty; for the year of our Lord 1830. Edited by the Rev. W. Shepherd. London, S. Maunder.
This poem accompanies a plate also entitled “The Pilgrim”, which I am at present unable to identify. Artist unknown.
"The Pilgrim.
Vain folly of another age,—
 This wandering over earth,
To find the peace by some dark sin
 Banish'd our household hearth.
On Lebanon the dark green pines
 Wave over sacred ground,
And Carmel's consecrated rose
 Springs from a hallow'd mound.
Glorious the truth they testify,
 And blessed is their name;
But even in such sacred spot
 Are sin and woe the same.
Oh pilgrim! vain each toilsome step,
 Vain every weary day;
There is no charm in soil or shrine
 To wash thy guilt away.
Return, with prayer and tear return
 To those who weep at home;
To dry their eyes will more avail,
 Than o'er a world to roam.
There's hope for one who leaves with shame
 The guilt that lured before:
Remember, He who said ‘repent,'
 Said also, 'sin no more.’
Return, and in thy daily round
 Of duty and of love
Thou best wilt find that patient faith
 Which lifts the soul above.
In every innocent prayer each child
 Lisps at his father's knee:— If thine has been to teach that prayer,
 There will be hope for thee.
There is a small white church that stands
 Beside thy father's grave;
There kneel and pour those earnest prayers
 That sanctify and save.
Around thee draw thine own home ties,
 And, with a chastened mind, In meek well-doing seek that peace
 No wandering will find.
In charity and penitence
 Thy sin will be forgiven;— Pilgrim, the heart is the true shrine
 Whence prayers ascend to Heaven."
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Keepsake, 1829/The Broken Chain

THE BROKEN CHAIN.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
Lift not the festal mask!
Scott.
I am free! I have burst through my heavy chain,
The life of young eagles is mine again!
I may cleave with my bark the glad sounding sea,
I may rove where the wind roves—my path is free!
The streams dash in joy down the tameless hill,
The birds pierce the depths of the skies at will;
The arrow goes forth with the singing breeze—
And is not my spirit as one of these?
Oh! the glad earth, with its wealth of flowers,
And the voices that ring through its forest-bowers,
And the laughing glance of the founts that shine,
Lighting its valleys!—all, all are mine!
I may urge through the desert my foaming steed,
The wings of the morning shall lend him speed!
I may meet the storm in its rushing glee,
Its blasts and its lightnings are not more free!
Captive! and hast thou then riven thy chain?
Art thou free in the wilderness, free on the main?
Yes! these thy spirit may proudly soar,
But must thou not mingle with crowds once more?
The bird, when he pineth, may cease his song,
Till the hour when his heart shall again be strong;
But thou—wilt thou turn in thy woe aside,
And weep midst thy brethren?—no, not for pride!
May the fiery word from thy lip find way,
When the thought burning in thee would rush to day?—
May the love or the grief of thy haunted breast,
Look forth from thy features, the banquet's guest?—
No! with the shaft in thy bosom borne,
Thou must hide the wound from the eye of scorn,
Thou must fold the mantle that none may see,
And mask thee with laughter, and say thou art free.
Free!—thou art bound, till thy race is run,
By the might of all on the soul of one!
On thy heart, on thy lip, must the fetter be—
Dreamer, fond dreamer! oh! who is free?
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir, 1833/On a Picture Representing an Italian Contadina and her Family

THE PRINCE OF SPAIN'S VISIT TO CATALINA
Painted by G. S. Newton R.A.Engraved by Charles Rolls
ON A PICTURE,
REPRESENTING AN ITALIAN CONTADINA AND HER FAMILY.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
I.
Not for the myrtle, and not for the vine,
Whose grape, like a gem, is the sunbeam's shrine;
And not for the deep blue heaven, that showers
Joy on thy spirit, like light on the flowers;
And not for the breath of the citron-trees,
Fair Peasant! I call thee not blest for these.
II.
Not for the beauty spread over thy brow,
Though round thee a gleam, as of spring, it throw;
And not for the lustre that laughs from thine eye,
Like a dark stream's flash to the summer sky,
Though the south in its riches nought lovelier sees—
Fair Peasant! I call thee not blest for these!
III.
But for these breathing and loving things—
For the boy's fond arm that around thee clings;
For the sunny cheek on thy lap that glows,
In the peace of a trusting child's repose;
For the hearts whose home is thy gentle breast—
Oh! richly I call thee, and deeply blest!