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# Royal Naval Biography/Bedford, William

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WILLIAM BEDFORD, Esq Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
During the Russian armament, in 1791, this officer served about three months as a Lieutenant in the Edgar, of 74 guns; and subsequently in the Formidable, a second rate. He was ​promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Aug. 15, 1794, and in the same year appointed to the Queen, of 98 guns, bearing the flag of Sir Alan Gardner, in the Channel fleet. The Queen was present at the attack of the French fleet off l’Orient, on the 23d June, 1795; but the speedy flight of the enemy deprived Captain Bedford of an opportunity to share in the flying contest. He afterwards removed with Sir Alan into the Royal Sovereign, of 110 guns.
In our memoir of Vice-Admiral E. G. Colpoys, we have given an account of the alarming mutiny at Spithead, in the spring of 1797; and stated, that in consequence of the concessions made by government, the fleet under Lord Bridport had put to sea on the 16th May, to encounter the enemy. The spirit of disaffection, however, was not yet laid, for it discovered itself once more in the following month, when the crews of several of the ships behaved in a most audacious manner, for which two seamen belonging to the Royal Sovereign were condemned to death.
Captain Bedford continued with Sir Alan Gardner until that officer struck his flag, in Aug. 1800, on being appointed Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Ireland. He then obtained the command of the Leyden, of 68 guns, in which he served on the North Sea station until the suspension of hostilities. At the attack upon Boulogne, Aug. 15, 1801, himself and Captain Gore, of the Medusa, tendered their services to act as volunteers under a junior officer, which offer, however, Lord Nelson thought proper to decline. The Leyden had 11 men killed and 40 wounded, in the boats employed on this occasion.
On the renewal of the war, in 1803, Captain Bedford was appointed to the Thunderer, of 74 guns, in which ship he took the Venus French privateer, of 18 guns and 150 men; and assisted at the capture of la Franchise frigate, pierced for 44 guns. In 1805, he commanded the Hibernia, the flag-ship of his friend Lord Gardner; and afterwards the Caledonia, another first rate, bearing the flag of Lord Gambier, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet.
At the general promotion, Aug. 12, 1812, our officer was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and soon after appointed Captain of the North Sea fleet, under the late Sir W. ​Young, with whom he continued until the end of the war. His commission as Vice-Admiral hears date July 19th, 1821. He married in 1808, a daughter of Commissioner Fanshawe, of Plymouth Dock-yard.
# Royal Naval Biography/Buckle, Matthew

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MATTHEW BUCKLE, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer, a son of the late Admiral Buckle, was made a Lieutenant in 1791; commanded the Camel store-ship in 1801: and obtained post rank April 29, 1802. During the late war he was employed in the Sea Fencible service, and as Captain of the Adamant, a 50 gun ship, and Latona frigate.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/Burdett, George

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GEORGE BURDETT, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was first Lieutenant of the Egmont 74, commanded by the present Admiral Sir John Sutton, in the action off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797; and commanded la Sophie sloop of war, on the Newfoundland station, during the last three years of the French revolutionary war. He was nominated to a command in the Irish Sea Fencibles about Dec. 1803; and appointed to the Maidstone frigate towards the latter end of 1811. From that period he was principally employed on the Halifax station, till the close of the contest between Great Britain and the United States.
On the 1st of Aug. 1812, the boats of the Maidstone and Spartan destroyed two American privateers in the bay of Fundy; and two days afterwards attacked and brought out a revenue cutter of 6 guns, pierced for 10, and three schooners mounting 2 guns each. On the 17th Oct. following, the same ships captured the Rapid, a fine privateer brig, of 14 guns and 84 men.
In Feb. 1813, we find Captain Burdett employed in the Chesapeake, with a squadron of frigates under his orders, the activity of which, in annoying the enemy, may be inferred from the following copy of a general memorandum issued by Rear-Admiral Cockburn:
“H.M.S. Marlborough, Lyn-haven Bay, Chesapeake, Mar. 4, 1813.
“Gen. Mem.– Captain Burdett having transmitted to me the copy of a letter, dated Feb. 9, 1813, which he has written to the commander-in-chief, giving an account of the capture of the Lottery (a schooner of 12 guns) in a most gallant style, by a division of boats under the command of Lieutenant Nazer; and the copy of another letter, dated the 14th Feb., stating the invariably gallant, active, and zealous conduct of every officer and man of the small squadron of frigates lately employed in this bay under his orders, I cannot resist anticipating the Commander-in-chief in taking public notice thereof, and in requesting the respective Captains of the said frigates to make known to their officers and crews, the high sense I entertain of their good conduct – the honor such behaviour does to themselves and their country – and to assure them how highly satisfied the Commander-in-chief will be when he receives these accounts, and that I am sure he will not fail to inform the Admiralty and their Country thereof, with due encomiums, also to request the respective Captains will transmit immediately to ​the Secretary of the Patriotic Fund, the necessary certificates to obtain, with the least possible delay, for those who have been wounded, the usual necessary rewards.
(Signed)“Geo. Cockburn, Rear-Admiral.”
“To the Captains of the Maidstone, Belvidere, Junon, Statira, and Laurestinus.”
Captain Burdett married, first, in 1802, a daughter of Lieutenant-General Whitelocke, at that period LieutenantGo vernor of Portsmouth; and, secondly, May 15, 1806, the only daughter of Colonel Brown, of Glennagary, in the county of Dublin.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Burgess, William

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WILLIAM BURGESS, Esq. [Commander.]
Was senior lieutenant of the Impregnable 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Benjamin Caldwell, on the memorable first of June, 1794; and promoted to his present rank July 5th following. He afterwards held a command in the Sea-Fencible service, on the southern coast of Cornwall. His son, Samuel, is a captain in the navy.
# Royal Naval Biography/Buller, Thomas Wentworth

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THOMAS WENTWORTH BULLER, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 8th Dec. 1812. His subsequent appointments were, Feb. 5th, 1813, to the Indus 74, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) William Hall Gage, fitting ​out for the Mediterranean station; April 16th, 1814, to the Diomede troop-ship, Captain Charles Montagu Fabian; and, June 16th, 1815, to be flag lieutenant to Sir John T. Duckworth, port-admiral at Plymouth. His promotion to the rank of commander took place April 19th, 1817.
This officer married, Oct. 24th, 1827, Ann, only daughter of the late Edward Divett, of Bystock, co. Devon, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Buck, Richard

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RICHARD BUCK, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1811.]
Nephew to Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, G.C.B. &c. &c.
We first find this officer, in Feb. 1806, serving as a lieutenant on board the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth. His commission as a commander was confirmed by the Admiralty, Dec. 28, 1807; previous to which he had been successively appointed to the command of the Rattlesnake and Samarang: in the latter sloop, formerly the Dutch corvette Scipio, he assisted at the “entire destruction of the naval force of Holland,” in the eastern hemisphere.
Sir Richard J. Strachan, in his despatches from the Scheldt, dated Aug. 13, 1809, acquaints the Admiralty that Captain Buck had been employed with a light flotilla, in sounding and buoying the channels of that river, to enable the fleet to advance, for the purpose of putting into execution the ulterior objects of the Walcheren expedition; and that this service was executed, under the directions of Sir Home Popham, with judgment and correctness.
Captain Buck’s next appointment was, about Dec. 1809, to the Crocus brig; in which vessel he continued until his promotion to post rank, April 3, 1811: he subsequently commanded the Termagant ship-sloop, and Franchise frigate, on the Mediterranean station. In Feb. 1812, he drove on shore and burnt, near Cagliari, l’Aventurier French privateer, pierced for 16 guns, but only three mounted, with a complement of 60 men; and on the 27th September following, he assisted at the capture of a few small vessels in Tarragona mole. A long official letter, descriptive of this latter unimportant service, was published in the London Gazette; and a copy thereof will be found at p. 430, et seq. of Nav. Chron. vol. 28.
Captain Buck married, previous to the peace, a daughter ​of Mr. Macdonald, the British Consul at Algiers, whose other daughter has since been united to the Danish consul resident at that regency.
* ↑ See Supp. Part I. p. 403.
* ↑ Id. p. 405.
# Royal Naval Biography/Bullock, Frederick

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FREDERICK BULLOCK, Esq. [Commander.]
A son of the late superannuated Commander James Bullock.
This officer passed his examination, at Portsmouth, in 1811; obtained his first commission on the 22d Jan. 1812; was appointed to the Revolutionnaire frigate. Captain John C. Woolcombe, Nov. 3d, 1813; and subsequently commanded the Snap surveying vessel, on the Newfoundland station. In 1824, he accompanied Captain Lyon from England to the coast of Labrador. He was advanced to his present rank on the 26th Aug. 1829; and has been borne on the books of the William and Mary yacht, at Woolwich, ever since the 30th Oct. in that year.
Commander Bullock is well known as a scientific officer in the hydrographical department of the service.
# Satanella

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Short story in verse. Czech original first published in 1874.
English-language translations of Satanela include:
# Revised Ballads of Bung and Other Verses

16-page pamphlet, a collection of comic poetry describing the regular drinkers at the Recreation Hotel in High Street, Greymouth, New Zealand.
* Foreword
* Dedication
* Recreation Reminiscences
* Stunology
* The Register
* L'Envoi
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# Revised Ballads of Bung and Other Verses/Dedication

DEDICATION
To those English, Irish, Scotsmen, Ex-soldiers, Sinn Feiners, and Red Feds; To those men without religion to those labourers and those “heads,” Who stand and drink together, when all hands are piped on deck At a tangi, at a send-off, at the flagship at the “Rec.”
They have their little quarrels (they are only great big kids), And they “shake” and make it up again as soon as someone bids. Travel the wide world over, blow in where you may, There’s not a bigger-hearted, kinder, better mob than they.
To those English, Irish, Scotsmen, Ex-soldiers, Sinn Feiners, and Red Feds; To those men without religion, to those labourers and those “heads,” Who stand and drink together, when all hands are piped on deck, I write this little volume of the Flagship of the “Rec.”
# Revised Ballads of Bung and Other Verses/Foreword

FOREWORD
The success which attended the first edition of the Ballads of Bung was not anticipated, and as only a limited number of copies were printed the demand was greater than the supply. Now, at the request of numerous friends I issue this revised edition, which includes several new verses of which Stunology is the “star” item.
I might add in passing that this particular effort (I nearly wrote poem) should be valuable to Judges, Magistrates, Solicitors, Parsons, Doctors, Reporters, Wowsers and the professions generally, and could be made the nucleus of a dictionary and be accepted as an authority on the subject to which it applies.
E. IVEAGH LORD.
Greymouth, Easter, 1921.
# Revised Ballads of Bung and Other Verses/L'Envoi

L’ENVOI
Life’s a lullaby Just to doze and drift and laze, Unmindful of each passing craze, Till at the parting of the ways, Death, all that’s earthly kindly slays, Then without a single sigh To sleep—and end life’s lullaby.
# Revised Ballads of Bung and Other Verses/Stunology

STUNOLOGY
Since the study of Stunology, a Super Science became, There are many sorts of students studying the same. Here are a few expressions, which range from Z to A; Which have the self-same meaning, the same idea convey. ••••
We say a man is “addled,” “aled,” “alcoholed,” or “on the booze,” Is a “Bacchanalian Buster,” “bottled,” “blithered,” “beered,” excuse, I nearly forgot to mention, “blue blind,” “bunkered,” and brimful,” As well as on “a bender,” “in the bats,” if he don’t pull His heroic self together, and stopped being “cupped” or “canned,” He'll get “chloroformed” in “celebrating” something great you understand. “Dingbatitis,” “drinking,” “doped,” “dizzy,” “dazed,” or on “the drunk,” As “full as an egg,” “ethered,” and likewise “elephant’s trunk,” As well as “fizzled,” “fumed,” “floored,” “fizzed”; “full,” and, ah yes, “fixed,” Have the self-same meaning, tho’ the metaphor is mixed. On the “go,” “gone,” groggy,” “gassed,” “hipped,” or “half seas o’er,” “Hors de combat,” “hiccoughed,” “helpless” (on the floor), Again “inebriated,” “inked,” and, ah, “intoxicated,” too, Mean quite the same as “jamboreed,” now is that plain to you? “On the jag,” “juiced,” “joyed,” “jargozzled,” and oh, “as full as a kite,” “Liquored,” “loose kneed,” “as full as a Lord” (get my meaning right?) Are just the same as “muzzie,” “muddled,” “mugged,” and also “mixed,”
While “mental aberration” is the term the doctors fixed (They charge you half-a-guinea, but it keeps your conscience clear, And the boss is not supposed to know that you were on the beer.) “Non compos mentis,” yet another mode of saying that your “on,” And “paralytic,” “punctured,” “primed” or “potty” are not wrong, “Over the plimsol,” “rocking,” or that “you’re on the roll”— All these expressions clearly show you love the flowing bowl. A “ribald reveller,” “on the rag,” or mayhap “in the rats,” (Don’t you hear them spitting, the jealous, wowser cats!) “Sizzled,” “slithered,” “squiffy,” “sprung,” or that you’re “on the spree” (Say the first three sixteen times and prove you’re not to me.) To say you’re “soused,” “steamed,” “stunned,” or that “you’re on the swank,” Is only a reflection, on the glorious way you drank. “Not sober,” is another mode and “sozzled” and “schicker” as well, While “tight,” “tapped,” “tipped,” or “tipsey,” the same old story tell. Some will say you’re “full as a tick,” and some that your damned “well tanked,” Some that you’re “wined,” “wounded,” or “wet,” and some that you are “yanked.” The boss at the front they said “Zig-zagged,” and the greatest of wars they won, For King and Country, kids and all, and the right to have a “Stun.”
# Royal Naval Biography/Coffin, Francis Holmes

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FRANCIS HOLMES COFFIN, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer obtained a Lieutenant’s commission in 1791 , and distinguished himself when serving on shore with a detachment of seamen at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, by the naval and military forces under the orders of Sir George Keith Elphinstone, and Major-General Craig, but more particularly on the 8th Aug. 1795, when the Dutch Commandant, endeavouring to regain a position wrested from him on the preceding day, drew out his whole force from Cape town, together with eight pieces of cannon. On that occasion, says the Major-General, “Captain Hardy and Lieutenant Coffin crossed the water with the seamen and marines under their command, received the enemy’s fire without returning a shot, and manoeuvred with a regularity that would not have discredited veteran troops.”
Lieutenant Coffin, at that time belonging to the Rattlesnake sloop of war, was afterwards removed to the Monarch, of 74 guns, bearing the flag of the commander-in-chief, by whom he was employed as the bearer of the correspondence between himself and the Dutch Rear-Admiral, Lucas, relative to the surrender of a squadron belonging to the Batavian republic, in Saldanda Bay.
# Royal Naval Biography/Coffin, John Townsend

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JOHN TOWNSEND COFFIN, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1822.]
Third son of Major-General John Coffin (who distinguished himself during the war between Great Britain and her colonies, in many severe conflicts with the republican troops), by Anne, daughter of William Matthews, of St. John’s Islands, in South Carolina, Esq.; and nephew to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart.
We first find this officer a midshipman on board the Blenheim 74, bearing the flag of the gallant, but ill-fated Sir Thomas Troubridge, whose son, the present baronet, makes especial mention of his good conduct, while serving in the Harrier brig, at the capture of the Dutch frigate Pallas and two large armed ships, near Java, July 25, 1806.
Although Mr. Coffin had then served the time necessary to qualify him for a commission (as appears by the official despatch just referred to), he did not obtain the rank of lieutenant till April 11, 1808. On the 21st Feb. 1812, being then in the Victorious 74, Captain (now Sir John) Talbot, he assisted at the capture of the Rivoli French two-decker, in the Gulf of Venice. We subsequently find him in the Ocean 98, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Plampin; and Rainbow 26, Captain Gawen William Hamilton; from which latter ship he was promoted to the command of the Shearwater brig, on the Mediterranean station, July I, 1814. His last appointment was, Aug. 12, 1819, to the Fly of 18 guns, in which sloop he cruised with considerable success against the American smugglers on the Irish coast. He also picked up a vessel from Miramichi, laden with timber, totally dismasted, without her rudder, and deserted by her crew. The Fly was paid off, at Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1821; and Captain Coffin advanced to post rank, Dec. 26, 1822.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ See Suppl. Part I. pp. 279–281.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 745.
# Royal Naval Biography/Coghill, Josiah Coghill

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SIR JOSIAH COGHILL COGHILL, Bart. (Formerly John Cramer, Esq.) [Post-Captain of 1806.]
Youngest son of a gentleman who assumed the name of Coghill, pursuant to the desire of Hester, Dowager Countess of Charleville, great-grand-daughter of Tobias Cramer, Esq. Sheriff of Dublin, grandson of Tobias Kramer, of Lower Germany, who was infranchised in Ireland, May 1639.
This officer obtained post rank Feb. 1, 1806; in which year we find him commanding the Concorde frigate, on the East India station, from whence he returned to England in the autumn of 1807. During the Walcheren expedition he commanded the Diana frigate, and was highly spoken of by Sir Richard J. Strachan in his despatches reporting the operations of the fleet under his orders. He succeeded to the baronetcy, on the demise of his elder brother. May 21, 1817.
​Sir Josiah Coghill has been twice married: his present lady is the eldest daughter of Charles Kendall Bushe, Esq. the late Solicitor-General in Ireland.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
# Royal Naval Biography/Cole, Thomas Edmund

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THOMAS EDMUND COLE, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 15th July, 1806; promoted to his present rank in July 1821; and appointed an inspecting commander in the coast guard service. Mar. 10th, 1831. He married, in Feb. 1824, Rebecca, eldest daughter of John Evans, Esq., mayor of Saltash.
# Royal Naval Biography/Coffin, Henry Edward

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HENRY EDWARD COFFIN, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in July 1814; and commander on the 19th Sept. 1829. He married Nov. 10th in the latter year, Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late William Curry, Esq., of Southampton.
# Royal Naval Biography/Colby, David

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DAVID COLBY, EsqDAVID COLBY, [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer lost an arm when serving as first Lieutenant of the Robust 74, commanded by Captain (now Sir Edward) Thornbrough, in the action between Sir John B. Warren and Mons. Bompart, Oct. 12, 1798. He subsequently commanded the Dido, a small frigate armed-en-flute, and employed as a troopship on the Mediterranean station. His promotion to post rank took place April 29, 1802; previous to which he had received the Turkish gold medal, for his services on the coast of Egypt. During the late war we find him serving as Flag Captain to his former commander, on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations. He married, May 22, 1806, Mrs. Costin, formerly of Bedford.
# Royal Naval Biography/Colby, Thomas

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THOMAS COLBY, Esq. [Commander.]
Second son of an eminent surgeon, now deceased, by Mary Copplestone, a descendant of the very ancient Devonshire family of that name.
This officer was born at Torrington, co. Devon, in 1782; and entered the royal navy, in Mar. 1797, as midshipman, on board the Bedford 74, Captain Sir Thomas Byard; under whom he served at the battle of Camperdown, and (in the Foudroyant 80) at the defeat of Mons. Bompard, by Sir John B. Warren, off the N.W. coast of Ireland, Oct. 13th, 1798. We subsequently find him serving under the flag of Sir Charles Cotton, with whom he continued until the peace of Amiens, when he was sent to the East Indies, as an admiralty midshipman, in the St. Fiorenzo frigate. Captain Joseph Bingham. On the 18th Sept. 1804, being then in the Centurion 50, Captain James Lind, he assisted in successfully repelling an attack made upon that ship, by a French squadron, consisting of the Marengo 80, and two heavy frigates, under ​the command of Rear-Admiral Linois. On his return home, he was appointed a lieutenant of the Thunderer 74, Captain William Lechmere, by commission dated April 8th, 1805. On the 22d July following, he assisted at the capture of two Spanish line-of-battle ships, by the fleet under Sir Robert Calder. He also bore a part at the glorious battle of Trafalgar; and was slightly wounded in action with the Turks, during Sir John T. Duckworth’s operations against the Sublime Porte, in Feb. 1807. On the latter occasion, the Thunderer was commanded by Captain (now Sir John) Talbot.
During the ensuing campaign in Egypt, Lieutenant Colby was employed on the river Nile. In 1809, he proceeded to the West Indies, on Lord Mulgrave’s promotion list; but returned home from thence without advancement, in consequence of a change in the naval administration. After this, he was again sent, by Mr. Yorke, to the Mediterranean; and there promoted from the Prince of Wales 98, Captain John Erskine Douglas, to the command of a prize brig captured at Genoa, in April, 1814. This appointment was confirmed by the Admiralty on the 17th of the following month.
Commander Colby married, in April 1826, Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Palmer, of Torrington, and niece of the late Marchioness of Thomond. His eldest brother, James, a surgeon, died in 1819; his youngest, Henry, was the midshipman alluded to in Vol. III. Part II. p. 290, who perished on board a prize belonging to the Sheldrake sloop, Feb. 19th, 1809.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part I. p. 150 et seq., and p. 170 et seq.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. pp. 874–877.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part I. p. 405.
* ↑ See Id. p. 405.
# Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC
## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglas
Supreme Court of the United States
407 U.S. 926
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference et al. v. Federal Power Commission et al.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
No. 71-1219. Argued: N/A --- Decided: June 19, 1972
Motion to dispense with printing the Federal Power Commission opinion in No. 71-1219 to conform with Rule 39 of the Rules of this Court granted.
Certiorari denied.
Reported below: 453 F. 2d 463.