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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bond, Philip

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​BOND. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
Philip Bond entered the Navy, 16 Oct. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Barracouta, Capt. Geo. Harris, in which vessel he proceeded to the East Indies, where, on removing, with the same officer, into the Sir Francis Drake frigate, he was for more than three years very actively employed, particularly off the island of Java. He returned home in Jan. 1812, on board the Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyer; afterwards served with Capt. Harris for seventeen months in the Belle Poule 38, in the ​Channel and off the coast of Spain; and, on the latter vessel being converted into a troop-ship, attended, under Capt. Fras. Baker, the expedition to New Orleans in 1814-15. He was promoted, from the Isis 50, bearing the flag in the Thames of Sir Home Popham, to the rank of Lieutenant on 19 Oct. in the latter year, but has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Bond married, we believe, a Miss Lafargue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bond, Thomas Baring

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​BOND. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 12; h-p., 23.)
Thomas Baring Bond entered the Navy, 18 May, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jonun of 46 guns, Capt. Jas. Sanders, stationed on the coast of North America, where, at the commencement of the war with the United States, he saw a good deal of active service. He was afterwards employed in the Sybille 44, Capts. Sanders and Thos. Forrest, with the latter of whom he proceeded to the latitude of Greenland in an unsuccessful search of the American Commodore Rodgers, and then cruized off the Western Islands; Vengeur 74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, in the Channel; from Sept. 1815, till Feb. 1820, in the Pique 36, and Glasgow 40, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Anth. Maitland, on the latter and Mediterranean stations; and, for short periods, in the Rochfort 74, Capt. Green, also in the Mediterranean, and Euryalus 42, bearing the broad pendant at Jamaica of Commodore Thos. Huskisson. He was made Lieutenant into the Raleigh sloop, Capt. Geo. Blackman, 3 Oct. 1820, and subsequently appointed, 19 June, 1822, to the Thracian, Capts. John Walt. Roberts and And. Forbes – 17 March, 1825, to the Beaver, Capt. John Jas. Onslow – and, 24 July following, to the Lively 46, Capt. Wm. Elliot – all on the West India station. Since his attainment of his present rank, 11 Jan. 1825, Commander Bond has been on half-pay. Agent – E. Dufour.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bond, William Francis

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​BOND. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
William Francis Bond entered the Navy, 1 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Courageux 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles, and, from July, 1805, to Nov. 1803, served with the same officer in the Windsor Castle 98, on the Mediterranean station. While in the latter ship, he took part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, and, in Feb. 1807, attended Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the passage of the Dardanells. He next joined the Loire 33, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, in which frigate he assisted at the capture of the French 20-gun ship Hébé, 5 Jan. 1809; removed, in April, 1811, to the Canopus 80, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Boyles, his former Captain; became Acting-Lieutenant, 15 Sept. following, of the Nautilus sloop, Capt. Thos. Dench; rejoined Rear-Admiral Boyles in Jan. 1812, in a similar capacity, on board the Trident 64; was transferred, as Master’s Mate, towards the close of the same year, to the Unite 36, Capt. Edwin Hen. Chamberlayne; and, on 8 Nov. 1814, was made Lieutenant into the Alcmene 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, under whom, in 1815, he seems to have been very actively employed in the Bay of Naples during the hostilities with Murat. He was paid off from the Alcmene in Oct. of the latter year; and was next, on 8 March, 1826, appointed, with Capt. Coghlan, to the Forte 44. He has not held any official occupation since 1828. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Booth, Augustus Sinclair

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​BOOTH. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Augustus Sinclair Booth passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 12 April, 1836; was appointed Additional-Lieutenant, 1 June following, of the Thalia 46, Capt. Robt. Wauchope, flag-ship at the Cape of Rear-Admiral Don. Campbell; joined, on 29 of the same month, the Columbine 16, Capt. Thos. Henderson, attached to the squadron on the African station, whence he returned in April, 1838; and from Feb. 1840, until paid off at the close of 1843, served on board the Thunderer 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, employed in the Mediterranean, and in attendance on the Queen off Walmer Castle. He has been employed, since 2.Dec. 1846, as First of the Penelope steam-frigate, Capt. Henry Wells Giffard. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Lines (Victor Hugo)

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VICTOR HUGO.
Since every soul is weak, and set On selfish aims, since men forget The true, the pure, the great, the bright, Instincts, at wrong, that chafe and swell, Honour and glory, law and right, And those who in the contest fell;
I love thee, Exile, with thy frown! O Care,—be thou my thorny crown! Welcome, thrice haughty Indigence! All hail, thou door that rough winds beat! And thou, O Sorrow, take thy seat Grave statue at my hearth, from hence!
I love the anguish sent to try! For in its shadows draw more nigh Those that my heart delights to see: Faith, Virtue, Dignity, in turn, Freedom, the exile proud and stern, And Loyalty, the refugee!
I love this isle of rocks and caves; Jersey, my Patmos,—o'er thee waves Free England's banner, grand and old!
I love the waters round that rise, The ship that on its errand flies, And all that here mine eyes behold.
Ha! There's the sea-gull. See it springs, Pearls scattering from its tawny wings, Then plunges in the gulfs once more: 'Tis lost in caverns of the main! No! No! It upward soars again, As souls from trials upward soar.
But most I love this seat—this rock, From whence I hear the thunder-shock Of waves eternally that moan, Ever-renewed: methinks Remorse Hath such a cry, and such a force— Wail mothers thus for children gone!
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Le Fond du Cœur (Henri Heine)

LE FOND DU CŒUR.
HENRI HEINE.
Far down in the sea when the billows heave wild The moon's image trembles, while up in the sky She glides on her pathway, calm, peaceful, and mild, True to her mission, like an angel on high.
Thus, while thou ascendest up, up to thy goal, A high law obeying,—pure, stainless, and free, Thy sweet image, child, trembles down in my soul, For it trembles itself, and heaves like the sea.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Lights (Louis Bouilhet)

LIGHTS.
LOUIS BOUILHET.
The sage muses and ponders with feelings of sorrow On this life and its sin, By a vase with dim light that gleams, gleams till the morrow, Fed with oil from within.
Crowned with the vervain, hopeful and joyous, and dancing As if ﬂushed with the wine, Shakes Hymen his fire-showers, the night sombre entrancing With a torch of the pine.
Hovers over the feast, oh, how gracious its motion! The mild lamp of perfume, Like a galley of gold that sweeps over the ocean, Poop on fire in the gloom!
At the foot of the Quirinal, the tavern throws nightly Its red rays on the lane, Where cluster low women, brazenfaced and unsightly, In the cold or in the rain.
The fires of the Atrium—sacred fires in a quiver, Tremble under the gate, And cause the Penates in the faint light to shiver By the old antique grate.
The hardy bold sailor who on waters blue-breasted Drives a furrow of foam, Has the beacon far-streaming, like a warrior high-crested, That aye points him his home.
Roman gods have their suns, their halls spacious to brighten, Beyond hearing and ken; But Cæsar the powerful, his dark night to enlighten, Must have torches of men.
He orders, and sudden wrapt in black cerements sepulchral, Steeped in pitch, on the scene Come the victims, to light, torches ghastly and spectral, The fair grove of Sabine.
'Mid songs erotic are heard, or is it a juggle, A wild dream of the brain? The howls of these torches that with flames fiercely struggle, And that struggle in vain.
Sabine all the while drives a team foaming and rapid Through the long avenue, Or thrums on his lyre, thrums notes common and vapid, While he smiles at the view.
Smile on, O great Cæsar, though those lights be infernal, They may serve ends divine, And when ashes thou art, as fire-banners eternal They may shine and still shine.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Loneliness (A. de Lamartine)

LONELINESS.
A. DE LAMARTINE.
Oft, oft on the mountain in the shade of an oak I take, when the sun sets, sad and thoughtful my seat; The most potent magician would fail to invoke A picture more changing than the view at my feet.
Here chides the rough streamlet with its waves all in foam, Then it winds, and is lost in the bushes afar, There the lake, bright and tranquil, reflects the blue dome, Adorned simply and chastely with evening's first star.
On summits the loftiest, crowned with woods sombre and high, Still throws the dim twilight its last lingering ray, While the car of night's regent mounts slowly the sky And illumines with silver the horizon's dull grey.
Hark! From the clear-outlined gothic steeple is borne Solemn, solemn and sweet the rich sound of the bells; On his pathway the traveller, weary and worn, Stops to hear the loved concert as faintly it swells.
But a picture like this in my soul gives no birth To transport or pleasure, for the halo has fled; Like a wandering spirit I move on the earth, And the sun of the living warms never the dead.
From hill to far hill, long, long I carry my view, From the south to the north, from the dawn to the west, All the points of the vast circle I run through and through, And say inly, in no place content can I rest.
What care I for palaces, huts, valleys, or woods, Vain objects of their lustre divested and shorn, Streams, rocks, green forests, and more adored solitudes; One being has left me, and ye are all forlorn!
When the march of the day-god commences or ends, With an eye quite indifferent I follow his range; What matters to me whether he mounts or descends In a dark sky or pure, when the days bring no change?
Could I follow the sun's course through all his career, A blank desert, a void everywhere would I see. I seek nothing of all he illuminates here; Visible universe, I ask nothing of thee!
But who knows if beyond the far limits of sight, Where the True Sun lights up other places and skies, When my body is dust, and my soul clad in white, What I dream of so much may not flash to mine eyes!
There shall I drink of the clear fountains I want, There encounter the sisters long sought, Hope and Love, Ideal—whose emblems on the earth are but scant, There, there shall I greet thee, for thy home is above.
Why, why can I not, borne on the car of the morn, Vague object I long for, dart upwards to thee? Why linger I still in a forced exile I scorn? No bond of affection 'twixt the world is, and me.
The reign of green foliage in the wood is but brief, Falls the leaf, and is whirled by the wind in its play, Alas! I resemble but too much the poor leaf; Stormy wind of the north, bear, oh, bear me away!
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Love's Catechism (Anonymous)

LOVE'S CATECHISM.
ANONYMOUS.
Say, what is love? The word is not An empty sound, a fleeting breath; Love means two souls with but one thought, Two hearts that throb like one, till death.
Whence comes this Love? We little know; His will o'errides all let or stay: And where goes he? Nay, ask not so; He is not Love if he go away.
And what is Love, the truest, purest? The Love that breathes but in his choice: And what is Love, the strongest, surest? The Love that makes no boast or noise.
And how does Love increase his riches? He gives, and no reward he seeks: And how speaks he when he bewitches? Love simply loves, and never speaks.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Le Convoi d'Une Pauvre Fille (Auguste Brizeux)

LE CONVOI D'UNE PAUVRE FILLE.
AUGUSTE BRIZEUX.
When poor Louise died in her fifteenth year, A wood-flower killed by the wind and the rain, No numerous cortège followed her bier, A priest and a boy composed all the train. From time to time the acolyte replied To the prayers with responses soft and low. Louise was friendless, and nobody cried, And Louise was poor, so none made a show. A simple cross of box, an old, old pall, This was the pomp around her funeral bed; And when the sexton bore her past the hall Unto the lowly dwellings of the dead, Hardly the village from the bell could learn Its sweetest virgin had retired from earth. So died she humble.—By the hills where fern Abundant grew, 'neath trees of ample girth, By balmy vales and corn-fields rich and green, And through the broom, at dawn of glorious day The convoy winded. April, like a queen, In all her splendour, made a proud display And on the virgin bier in tenderness Snowed down her flowers, and bathed it with her tears;
The white-thorn had put on its gorgeous dress Of rose and white; and levelled rays like spears Touched the star-blossoms on each branch that shook. Full was the prospect of perfume and song; Flowers all the way, as far as eye could look, And hidden birds, that warbled loud and long.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Le Fond de la Mer (Joseph Autran)

LE FOND DE LA MER.
JOSEPH AUTRAN.
In April or October, when the weather is fairest, And the colours in heaven and on earth are the rarest, Who has not often spent long hours by the ocean When it lay spread at his feet, without ripple or motion, Contemplating dreamily the picture of wonder That smiled in the sunlight the blue mirror under! For me, I know not a sight more entrancing. Down—down in the wave, first of all, are seen glancing, Dazzling the eyes with their reflections prismatic, Gems whose rich lustre would make artists ecstatic, And ravish king's hearts, and convert with their glory A hundred strange ruins, dark, crumbled and hoary, To Aladdin's palaces of the famed Arab story. Then looked at minutely each gem in its station. What hues! Oh, what hues! blue, orange, carnation, Amethyst, onyx, agate, and the ruby that blushes, And pearl and carbuncle that send light out in gushes, All by the waves patient polished for ages and ages, While carried hither and thither by the wind as it rages. Ah! What flashes of lightning! What shades soft and tender! But these jewels that make the eyes wink with their splendour Submerged in the waters with the sun shining brightly, What are they? On the dry land, mere pebbles unsightly.
After this long ribbon of the gems of the fairies Extends the fresh verdure of the ever-green prairies, Such as Spring generous with warm breathings never Drew forth on soil fertile. Oh, lovely for ever Are the gardens of ocean that no sunbeams can wither. No flower is on earth, but its semblance has hither. Look, look at these orchards where each tree is uprearing In enamel its crest, with the fruit-clusters peering, And its blossoms in shadow, like the Orient's veiled daughters! How beautiful all,—in the soft gauze of the waters!
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Les Hurleurs (Leconte de Lisle)

LES HURLEURS.
LECONTE DE LISLE.
The sun in the billows had extinguished its flame, Under mountains fog-covered, slept peaceful the town, On the huge boulders, washed by a foam-cloud, low down, Dashed the ocean in thunder, its power to proclaim.
Night multiplied the long hollow tumult of sound! Not a star shone forth in the immensity blue, Only a moon mournful, its cloud-bars breaking through, Like a pale lamp, swung sad in the welkin profound.
Silent globe with a sign on its forehead of wrath! Débris of a world dead, flung at hazard in space! It shed from its orb frozen of faint light a trace Sepulchral, on the south ocean's limitless path.
Afar, towards the north, where the vapours hung deep, Africa, sheltering herself in the night's sombre bands, Her gaunt lions famished on the smoking dull sands, And her herds of elephants, by lakes lulled to sleep.
On the shores arid, amid insalubrious smells Of bones of oxen and steeds all scattered about, Lean dogs here and there lengthened their fierce muzzles out And joined in lugubrious demoniac yells.
The tail in a circle concealed under the form, The eyes wide dilated, the feet febrile, they stood, Or crouched down as they howled in that drear solitude, While o'er them a shudder swept at times like a storm.
The sea-foam, in showers, glued to their spines and their hips Long tangles, and made salient the vertebrae bare, And when the waves to attack them bounded in air Their white teeth gnashed under their red slavering lips.
In the gleams faint and ghastly of the moon on her range, What an anguish unknown by the billows dim-seen, Made a soul shriek and lament in your figures unclean? Why howled you thus, spectres, frighted, frightful and strange?
I know not; but, O dogs that howled wild on the shore! Though suns after suns, in the seas, since have been cast, I hear still resounding from the depths of my past Your cry of despair, and it shall ring evermore.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Man and the Sea (Charles Baudelaire)

MAN AND THE SEA.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
Man, in thy freedom, thou shalt love always the ocean As the mirror in which is reflected thy soul, For its infinite depths—its waves in commotion, Of thy spirit the phases, lay bare like a scroll.
To plunge in its waters thy bosom rejoices, As to clasp a dear mother rejoices a child! And thy heart ceases to hear its own inner voices, At the sound of that voice unconquered and Wild.
O soul, in the shadow thou ever abidest, Who has sounded thy depths, and who there may regard? And thou sea, who knows of the riches thou hidest, Or has seen the dread secrets of thy dark dungeon-ward?
The same temperaments! And yet through the ages Fierce, pitiless, remorseless, between you is strife! Carnage, death, havoc, seem the work and the wages! Eternal gladiators!—Brothers grappling for life!
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Leworthy, Henry

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​LEWORTHY. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 35; h-p., 9.)
Henry Leworthy was born 23 Feb. 1793. This officer entered the Navy, 20 July, 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Grappler gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Abel Wantner Thomas; and on 31 of the following Dec. was wrecked on the Iles de Chausey, near Granville; after sustaining a desperate engagement with an overwhelming force sent from which place to effect their capture, Mr. Leworthy and his companions were compelled to surrender and were taken prisoners to Verdun. In consideration of the distinguished bravery they had shown on the occasion, Napoleon Buonaparte in the course of a short time ordered the swords of all the officers to be restored to them, and that they should be allowed to wear them during the remainder of their captivity. After he had been for more than ten years in bondage, and had undergone inconceivable hardships in three thwarted attempts at escape, Mr. Leworthy at length, in the early part of 1814, succeeded in accomplishing a flight. He was then for upwards of two years employed on the American and Home stations in the Akbar 50, Capts. Jas. John Gordon Bremer and John Pasco; and on 14 Nov. 1816 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 21 Oct. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 11 July, 1831, to the command of the Hawke Revenue-vessel – and 30 June, 1834, to the Coast Guard Service, in which he still continues. On 7 Dec. 1840, at the hazard of his life and of his boat’s crew, the Lieutenant rescued 8 persons from the French brig L’Espérance, which vessel was in fifteen minutes dashed to pieces against the rocks at the entrance of Salcombe Harbour. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lewis, Henry (b)

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​LEWIS. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Henry Lewis (b) entered the Navy, 27 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Amethyst frigate, Capts. Alex. Campbell and John Wm. Spranger employed in the North Sea and Baltic; and in May, 1805, became Midshipman of the Diomede 50, Capts. Hugh Downman and Joseph Edmonds. On his return to England in the summer of 1807, after having witnessed the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope and the operations against Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, he joined the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, and forthwith accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen under Admiral Gambier. Between Dec. of the same year and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1815, Mr. Lewis was successively employed, the latter part of the time as Master’s Mate, on board the Minotaur 74, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Africa and Stately 64’s, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Fred. Ryves, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Chas. Bateman, Impétueux 74, Capt. Bateman, Eridanus 36, Capt. Henry Prescott, Ceres 32, Capt. Jas. Prevost, and Scamander 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote. The Stately was attached to the force engaged in the defence of Cadiz; the other ships occupied on the Home station. Since his promotion Mr. Lewis has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ley, George

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​LEY. (Lieutenant, 1813.)
George Ley entered the Navy, in July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Barfleur 98, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke, attached to the Channel fleet. Removing as Midshipman, in June, 1807, to the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, he attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen, and then returned to the Channel; where, and in the North Sea, he served from May, 1808, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1813, on board the Christian VII. 80, and Impregnable 98, flag-ships of Sir Edward Pellew and Admiral Wm. Young. While in the Christian VII., during the years 1809-10, we find him assisting at the destruction of several convoys under the batteries on the coast of France. His next appointments were – 14 Feb. 1814, to the Hope 10, Capts. Edward Saurin and Henry Fyge Jauncey, with whom he was employed on home service until paid off in Oct. 1818 – and 18 April, 1829, to the Ordinary at Sheerness, where he remained until July, 1831. He is now on Quarantine duty.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lewis, Henry (a)

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​LEWIS. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Henry Lewis (a) entered the Navy, 24 Sept. 1801, as A.B., on board the Diana 38, Capts. John Poo Beresford and Thos. Jas. Maling, of which frigate, successively stationed in the Mediterranean, Channel, and West Indies, he became Midshipman in the following Oct., and Master’s Mate in May, 1805. On 3 Feb. 1806, being at the time prizemaster on board a detained American brig, he had the misfortune to be taken prisoner by a French privateer off the Scilly islands, and carried to France. He effected his escape in Dec. 1809, and, attaining the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1810, was Afterwards appointed in that capacity – in the course of the same month, to the Resolution 74, Capt. Hardy, stationed in the Baltic – 12 Jan. 1811, to the Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, with whom he was for two years employed in the North Sea and Channel – and, 8 Oct. 1813, to the Orontes 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane. In the latter ship he served on the Irish and West India stations, and again in the Channel, until Sept. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.