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London, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

SECRETARY—Chas. Hoghton, Esq,

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TINFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURY.
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
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ivy AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
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PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.

The very interesting match amongst yachts of this
club, confined, with the exception of a pilot, to crews
consisting entirely of amateurs, was sailed yesterday,
and created very considerable sport. The following had
been entered :

Yachts. Tons.

Gnat
Blue-eyed Maid.
Julia
Valentine
Irresistible
Britannia
Idas
Idea

4 ....
4 ...
7 ....
8....
7....
7....
6....
6....

Owners.

Messrs. Hewitt.
▪ Tuckwell.
Hutchinson.
B. Wallis.
Gardner.
▪ Legg.
▪ Knibbs.
• Ceely.

The distance sailed was from Blackwall to Gravesend
and back, for three very excellent prizes. The first, a
silver cup, generously presented by Mr. Turner, the
treasurer of the club ; the second, a silver telescope, the
gift of Mr. Messer; and the third, a silver snuffbox,
the gift of Mr. Berncastle, the commodore.
There was a slight breeze from south-west, which,
however, as flood approached, freshened, and there was
some very capital sailing. The whole of the yachts hay
ing been inspected at their stations by Mr. Berncastle
and Mr. Gardner, the active hon. secretary, the start
took place at 11h. 53m. The alacrity displayed by the
whole of the crews was most creditable to them as ama-
teurs. As soon as they were all in trim and fairly away
the Gnat took the lead, and was closely followed by the
Valentine and Blue-eyed Maid. On approaching Erith
the Idea, a very pretty handled little thing, with a sloop
rig, went into the first place, and kept all the way
down to Gravesend, when they rounded in the follow-
ing order :

H.M.S.
Idea 2 32 20
Gnat 234
Julia 2 39 40
Valentine 2 39 50
Britannia 2 40 25
And the others close up. Immediately upon rounding
the Valentine fouled the Julia, by luffing to windward
of her, and the owner of the Julia exhibited the protest
signal, the Britannia at the same moment passing into
the third place. The Valentine, however, soon went to
windward of the whole, and maintained it. The Idea,
after two or three boards to windward, gave place to
the Gnat, a beautiful little lugger, which, while looking
up well for the second place, carried away her foremast,
near Greenhithe, to the very great regret of the specta-
After some very capital sailing they came in

;ors.
;hus

H. M. s.
Valentine ~ 618 22
Britannia 6 30 32
Julia
Blue-eyed Maid -6-46 30
Should the Valentine become disqualified, the three
others will receive the prizes in the order in which they
stand. The matter at present stands adjourned for the
consideration of the sailing committee.

THE SMYTH FORGERY.—Fresh traces are daily dis-
covered of the means used by the impostor Provis in his
recent attempt to claim the title and estates of the Smyth
baronetcy. In the course of the trial a very antique
Bible, it will be recollected, was produced, in which were
the alleged certificates of his mother's marriage, and of
his own baptism. It has now been discovered that the
Bible was purchased by the impostor at a stall in London
for 155., and at the time it was sold to him it had in it
the ancient signature so much relied upon, " John S.
Vandenburg." Out of this circumstance the story of
the Vandenburgh family was doubtless woven, the title
of " Count" being prefixed by the pretended " Sir
Richard" to the name, to give it A greater importance,
and to favour the probabilities of the alliance. The
power of the truth will, however, we understand, turn
even this circumstance to the disadvantage of the pri-
soner ; as a son of Mr. Vandenburgh has been discov-
ered, who can speak to the handwriting of his father,
whose name was "John Simon," and not "John
Samuel," the name fixed on by the impostor to bear
out the initial signature. When Field, the London in-
spector, was conveying his prisoner to gaol, he hap-
pened to say, alluding to the romantic incidents of the
trial, that it would make a first-class novel. " Sir
Richard" sharply replied, " You need not trouble—l
shall write that myself ;" and accordingly the prisoner
is now employing his leisure time in writing his life and
adventures.

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It is with deep regret that we announce that this
very distinguished officer and remarkable man is
no more. He died at five o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, at his seat at Oaklands, near Portsmouth.
In losing Sir Charles Napier, the country loses
one of its brightest military ornaments, and one of
its most acute and indefatigable military adminis-
trators and reformers, la many respects, Sir
Charles stood markedly out, even amid the gallant
and able men amongst whom he spent his long and
adventurous life. Brave to rashness, and beyond
it—loving, in his early days, danger for its own
sake—adventurous to an extreme—indefatigable
in all he undertook—with as much fertility of in-
vention as rapidity in action—equally ready with
tongue, pen, and sword—and, to crown all, of a
strangely wild and eccentric appearance Sir
Charles was a man perfectly sui generis. Able as
are and were the members of this able family, from
the time of Napier of Merchistoun downwards, per-
haps Sir Charles James Napier was, as a general,
an administrator, and a ruler, the ablest of them
all. The predominating quality of his mind may
be set down as a fiery energy and a restless longing
foractin. He was
intoleranto ofkn in
all eaebuses.lik He
eanad dislike," ut-
terlyys
spoke
his mind, and in speaking it never failed to call a
spade a spade. Few officers in the British army
led such a life of continuous mental and physical
exertion as Sir Charles. At one time he was fight-
ing as a commissioned officer, at another as a volun-
teer. His exploits extended to sea as well as land.
Now we see him as the governor of a col-my, again
as a negotiator, a diplomatist, and an administraz
tor, abolishing the savage customs of a fierce and
untractable people, and introducing with vast
energy all manner of reforms in the discipline of
his own troops. Worn out at length, and riddled
with wounds received in the Peninsula and in
India, the body—not the indomitable mind—
gradually failed ; and after not less than fifty-four
years of service—by far the greater proportion of
the time, active service—the conqueror of Scinde,
and the hero of Hyderabad and Meanee, has
breathed his last, as did his great commander,
tranquilly in his bed. " You must go—or I
must," said the Duke, when our Indian empire
was shaken by warlike disaster. Now we have
neither, as councilor or defender.
Charles James Napier, the son of Col. Napier,
was ,born at Whitehall, London, on the 10th of
August, 1782. He is said to have been considered
a delicate child, and was brought up according ;
but if he was, he must have speedily, in common
phrase, grown out of it. Young Napier was re-
moved at an early age to Ireland—to Castletown,
in the county of Kildare. Here he received his
education, at the hands of his father, who, how-
ever, appears to have made it of the shortest, as,
before the boy had finished his twelfth year, he re-
ceived, on the 31st of January, 1794, an ensign's
commission in the 22d Regiment of Foot ; and on
the Bth of May following he was gazetted a lieu-
tenant. Here was quick promotion ; but stirring
times were at hand. The Reign of Terror was in
full swing, and the symptoms of Irish disaffection
were becoming visible. Four years after, that
country was in a blaze, and young Napier saw his
first service as aide-de-camp to Sir James Duff.
His regiment still keeping in Ireland, where it
was recruited, he was called out on the occasion of

the Emmett plot and insurrection, and the young
soldier had a second time the opportunity of seeing
the horrors of civil war. But he was soon deitined
to a share in campaigning upon a greated scale.
Towards the end of 1803, he obtained his company,
and exchanged into the bOth, a regiment which is
popularly called in the army " The Dirty Half-
Hundred ;" but which calls itself, with more rea-
son, " Th Fighting Fiftieth," as on its colours
are emblazoned "Egypt," "V imiera," " Coruna,"
" Almarez " " Vittoria," " Pyrenees," " Orthes,"
" Peninsula," " Puimiar." Having been ap-
pointed to a majority on the 29th of May, 1806,
he commanded this regiment during the terrible
retreat on Comma under Sir John Moore, and
during the fatal battle in which that gifted leader
fell. Nor had Major Napier much better fortune,
for he was wounded in five places and made
prisoner. The 42d and 50th had attacked and
driven the French out of a village called Elvina,
and Sir John Moore had sent a battalion of. Guards
to reinforce the regiments in continuing the ad-
vance. The 42d, however, taking the Grenadiers
for a relief, partially fell back, leaving the 50th
fighting in some disorder amongst ruined houses
and garden walls. At this moment, the French,
having been powerfully reinforced, advanced in an
overwhelming charge, driving back the 50th into the
village. In theretreat, Major Stanhope, a nephew of
Mr. Pitt was killed, and Major Napier desperately
wounded and made prisoner. In his recently pub-
lished work, " English Battles and Sieges in the
Peninsula," Sir William Napier
gives the following
compact account of the affair :_cc Encompassed
by enemies and denied quarter he received five
wounds, but he still fought and struggled for life
until a French drummer, with a generous heat and
indignation, forcibly rescued him from his bar-
barous assailants." We subjoin some details from
another authority, by whom Major Napier is re-
presented as having been taken in an attempt to
carry a gun which had committed great slaughter,
and was the identical one from which Sir John
Moore afterwards received his death-wound. This
statement receives some colouring from Napier,
who states that Sir John was in the thick of the
affair at Elvina, and was " dashed from his horse
to the ground. A cannon shot from the rock
battery had torn away all the flesh from his left
breast and shoulder, and broken the ribs over a
heart undaunted even by this terrible, this ghastly,
mortal hurt." To return, however, to Major
Napier. He is described as advancing over
broken ground, armed with a musket, and calling
on his men to follow him. Three of the four who
obeyed him fell in the attempt, the fourth was
wounded, and the rest hung back. Napier was in
the act of helping the wounded man when he was
struck by a musket-ball, which broke one of the
shank bones. Throwing down his musket, he was
hobbling along, leaning on his sword, when a
cowardly Frenchman ran his bayonet into his
back. The hurt, however, not being serious,
Major Napier turned round and disarmed his as-
sailant, now supported by several of his comrades,
whom the major gallantly faced until he was

knocked down senseless by the butt-end of a mus-
ket, and vas about to be despatched outright,
when the benevolent drummer interfered and

dragged him out of the melee. Sir William
Napier, it will be observed, mentions five wounds ;
and in Hart's " Army List" the same number is

stated, to wit, " leg broken by a musket shot,
sabre cut on the head, in the back by a bayonet,
ribs broken by a cannon shot, and several severe

contusions."

__
Soult received his gallant prisoner with a kind-
ness which was not his general characteristic, pro-
cured for him the necessary medical assistance, and
upon his recovery, which was rapid—for it would
appear, from several circumstances in his life, that
Sir Charles's flesh had a very fortunate facility in
healing—dismissed him, with permission to go to
England on parole. This act of generosity was
probably ca-ased by the close of the campaign,
which was terminated by the battle of Corunna.
The belief in the meantime was prevalent in Eng-
land that Major Napier had been killed, and he
tslitatefound his friends in mourning, and his property
being administered to. It was probably about the
period of forced inactivity which ensued, that Major
Napier commenced that literary career which he
afterwards carried on during another compulsory
cessation from military services. His brother, Sir
have been
William, in his work " The Conquest of Scinde "
mentions several of these productions,
re-
marks upon small farms and over population ;"
others, " The Colonies ;" l'ACio:iloEsniznaytioonn,thwie
" Military Law," a work statecl to be eloquent
as
nlngs
Lights amongst
and copious of anecdote ;
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at an after period, after his Greek government,
l'i‘taNryoteLsifue7
IntemVuisgtny'
that Sir Charles wrote the " Roads of Cephalonia,"
a natural subject for so great and enterprising a
road-maker ' • and we learn that upon one occa-
sion—the date is not mentioned—the stern war-
rior and engineer unbent from professional topics
so far as to indite " ' Harold of England,' an his-
torical romance, not published, but worthy of
being so, and showing the author's versatile powers
of mind."
But suspense of action soon tired Sir Charles,
and in 1811 we find him back again in the Penin-
sula, and, as a volunteer, fighting desperately at
the desperate fight at Coa, where he had two
horses shot under him—but escaped unhurt. At
Busaco, one of the hottest-fought battles of the
war, he was not so fortunate, being shot in the
face, having his jaw broken and
his
eye injured.
Good medical assistance not appearing to be at
hand, Sir Charles actually rode to Lisbon, a
distance of more than a hundred miles, and had the

ball extracted from where it had worked itself
behind his ear. Still not satisfied with fighting—