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the hliusetetWelklStiral C.lllieprwood, and
the Officers and Mei, tinder his command, for their '
conduit in the aftios,,aitcl achirviii4 the glorious
eigory, ofr Trafalgar, OA the 21st ~f Oflobvr last.
In Eating the grounds on which tha: Motion pro-
ceeded, tespesging which, he felt confilnu. t'nerit '
wriold h, no difruence neopinion in that Anna%
he believed it would not be deented irrelevant in
him, before he proceeded farther, to end aeoVito
pay that tribute of applause, tv'Ach t'tey all mast nal
was due to that great and. irustrious Cimm indtivi*
under wh•uie auspices that signal and ..,lorious vino
was achieved, whom it was the misfortune of the f.
country to lose, in the moment of vi_ ory ; but a
contummvtion, so glorious to himself, incontroverti.
My established his claim to the 'need of imnaortvl
houour. That, however, WJII not the vole
tone the country had tcceatly experienrrd b
had the misfostu.,e, %Of hin a few rno;ifh's, to.] :tfi
two of the most distingoi,hed military and political
charaElers, that ever graced her annals; at an ear'',
and abort: the rune period of their re4peftive lives;
=der circreastaases. and at ♦ „time. '

abilities, vi.zour, talent, and energy of the country
was requisite for her preservation. fie felt, that
part of what he now alluded to, was foreign from the
subjeCt he had regulail r to observe upon ; but so
much more strongly the :sacas:on which voggeste.l
that he could not repress its expression. (Hear!
bed, His 4/Lordship proc:edel to expiate upon
the charafter of the othur illustrious mdivi foal,
who was the subjea of his recen; general paargyric.
The whole life of that great Officer, he sheaved, was
devoted to the service of his country ; and newer dada
there exist a person more fully and va: innsly qualified.
effectually to forward that service, than tlw Noble and.
gallant Viscount. to whom he :11;as:teal. In come/wits
ing his professional chara.ller, it was Unpossible to re.:
train from adverting to Cie m. tits ef those who bad•
the op:Nor:unity of improving these taltr.ti, and di.
reteing that spirit of en; erprise and intrepidity which
displayed itself in his earlier ye.trs. On this head,
much crcdit was due to Sir Peter Parker, in Lord
HnnJ, to Earl St Vincent, and other distinguished
officers, to whom such opportunities were afforded.
To these, for their early dist:nginshing, and calling
into :idiots, the important qualifications, with which
' the Lee gall in: Viscount was so eminently endowed,
much praise was due; and so far, it may be said,
those distinguished officea, in the first instance,
contribwed their parts to the glorious and import.
ant services he sunsequently rendered. It was not,
however, to these great and pre-eminent coaeiieria
tions, of the important vietoria ..f the Nile, Copes.
hagen, and Trafalgar, that their Lordships were
alone to look fer t!:e merits and p:rfeaions if that
gallant Officer ; on various occasions, even in the
earliest part of his professional life, they were emi-
nently to be blond. His various services, as a sub-
ordinate Officer. while on the Meditertaneasmatiee.

ed. In :ire quarter, not only his lei al and iatrepiditg
were repeatedly manifested, but his talents and profits .
.tonal skill, and in a way which was unequalled by
any other officer in similar circumstances ; and dee '
same superior display of talent and enterprise was
uniformly exhibited by him on every occasion df
separate command. st hen His Majesty wail first
pleased to order a specific remuneration fur his ser-
vices, on the tormat representation thereof, which,
on his part, became neressary on such an occasios,
that illunriousOdieer had truly set forth, that he was
concerned in the capture of .seven ships of the lige.
ten frigates, and a number of smaller armed •
that he had been one hundred and. twenty •
in adinn with His Majesty's enemies, that he
lost one of his limbs, and one of his eyes. These
were among the services of his early life, when he
was yet comparatively unknown to the country, as
a distinguished commander; and previous ta tame
glorious and immortal vidories which eternized his
fame to all posterity. On all these more important
occasions, to which extensive command and pro- ;
po•tionate responsibAity were attached, Iris powers •
and exertions appeared to grow and to increase, in
proportion to the tnagnitude and importance
of the service nn which he was employed.
The late glorious adinn at Trafalgar, the cir-
cumstaaces of which were so recent and so fresh
in all their Lordships' minds, it was needless
to expatiate on; suffler it to say, that in extensive
and important consequences. it exceeded every
thing of the kind that graced the annals of the
country (Ilee. ! e-er! from Earl St. Vincent).
That glorious vidory bore the same proportion nn
its magnitude, brilliancy, and important conse-
quence', to the achievement at Copenhagen, that
the latter did to the previously unparalleled vic-
tory off the Nile, and which, in fad, that vidury
is all those respells, to every other that pre-
ceded it (Hear! hear! from Earl 5.. Vin-
cent and Duke of Clarence). It seemed as if
the energies of his mind, end the powers . of
his exertion, expanded, and progressively in-
creased. on the respective occasions of those glo. I
sinus vidories, and in each of them he seemed to
surpass what he had exhibited in the foregoing N.
stance. The superior endowments possessed by the*
gallant Admiral, were not to he considered alone
as operating through himself ; his example and in-
fluence pervaded all those who were placed under
him in command ; his merits were not confined to
that glorious energy he displayed in the heat of
aftinn ; the coolness and discrimination of his
mind, formed a pre-eminent trait in his charafer;
his promptitude to make the most of every ad-
vantage that presented itself ; a most striking in-
stance of which, and of unprecedented presence of
mind, was mat.i.tsted in his conca& in the critical
and important affair at Copenhagen. These, how-
ever, were far from constituting the whole of his
merits as an o.ficer ; his brea,t burned with a pure,
a noble, a generous love of glory, which was the
twain spring of all his heroic actions ; and he had Si.
faculty of cleat-4)4ns all those around him with a
simiLr euthesiava. No marks of ferocity or cruelty,
wh:ch so often stained the laurels of succe.slal vie-