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THE RUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEN'INCI. OCTOBER_ 121), 1664

called to its artistical beauties, I think they will be in
admiration of the design and execution. The likeness of
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c., I have
been told is admirable, and that there has been no sculp-
ture, bas relief, or work upon canvass that has in any
way come up to its beauties. The reverse side of the
portrait of Nelson represents the fleet just as the enemy
has opened fire, which I will proceed to deseribe,
after calling your attention to the heading, " England
expects every man to do his duty." It is well
recorded that the commander-in-chief assigned 15 sail-
of-the-line of his fleet to his second in command, his old
companion in arms, Vice-Admiral Collingwood, to attack
the rear of the enemy, and here you will see his flag-
ship, the Royal Sovereign, having just cut through the
line. The weather line, Nelson's own division of 12 line-
of-battle ships and the frigates, &c., is the perspective,
and has not yet closed with the enemy, and I presume
it to be about the period when Collingwood is recorded
to have said to his flag-captain (Rotherham), " What
would Nelson give to be here I" and when Nelson was
saying, on .the Victory's quarter-deck, " See how that
noble fellow Col. (Collingwood) has commenced the ac-
tion !" Lord Nelsen received his mortal wound within
an hour and a half from the time of having so expressed
himself, but it is known that he did not breathe his last
till after Captain Hardy had obeyed his call to come to
hint, and had said that none of our ships had struck their
colours, but 14 of the enemy had. It is even said that
he lived to hear that 19 had surrendered, and the rest
were bearing away, when he exclaimed, "Thank God,
we have dose our duty to our country. I had counted
on 23, but I can now die happy ;" and, with the excep-
tion of his faintly answering his flag-lieutenant, who lay
wounded in the cockpit near him, that the last cheer
was for another of the enemy's ships having struck,
these were the last words of the immortal Nelsen in the
hour of victory. Of the 19 sail•of-the-line captured out
of 33, four only were got into Gibraltar, the rest having
been burnt by the victors, or sunk, owing to the gale of
wind and continued bad weather which ensued after the
action. Five of the ships that hauled their wind out of
the action, however, towards its close, were met a few
days after, and were captured by four Pail-of the line
and three frigates. They were at first taken for the
Rechfort squadron, which was blockaded, and with one
ship burnt, L'Achille, here was an account of 24, leav-
ing nine only, which, after making their appearance
next day returned into Cadiz. Rear-Admiral Sir
George Westphal is unavoidably prevented from being
present here, but he writes me to say he regrets he can-
not meet the descendant of his reverend patron, and I
am sure he speaks sincerely, as Lord Nelsen was his
kindest friend, and I may add that he is the midshipman
represented in West's picture being taken below wounded
when Nelson fell. This box was given not many years
ago, as being made out of Nelson's flag-ship the Victory,
with a piece of her copper. The other box has been
made out of a piece of my own ship, the Achille (Capt.
Sir Richard King), piocured by Capt. Richard Douglas,
who was a midshipman also in the Achille when that
ship (still effective) was last under thorough repair ; and
there is another of the old Achille's midshipmen present
(three from one ship, with myself), Commander Lardner
Denny., whom I met here for the first time last year
after 48 years of separation. In the fall of that ♦ery
year Napoleon won the splendid victory of Austerlitz,
commonly called the Battle of the Emperors. By that
and succeeding victories, Austria, Russia, all Germany,
and Prussia were at his feet, with Spain for his ally, and
Naples with all the Italian States occupied by his troops,
and out of these magnificent conquests sprung up the
great northern confederation against this country ; so
that had not the glorious victory of Trafalgar procured
to us the mastery of the seas—net that I think a suc-
cessful descent could have Leen made on this land, yet
' with all the navies of the seas combine], and the loss
of the battle, the mastery of the seas would have pro-
bably have followed, our commerce have been annihi-
lated, and the sinews of war without our reach, and
they we should have been as muck the footstool of
France as any of the other great resisting, but unsuc-
cessful, Powers of the Continent. With the exception of
our attack on Copenhagen, the Cape of Good Hope,
successes in the east and west at sea, Sir John Duck-
worth's destruction of the French squadron in the West
Indies, in which action one of our gallant members, Sir
Samuel Pyre, commanded a ship of the line ; Sir Win.
Hoste's gallant frigate action in the Adriatic, and some
splendid single actions, with Sir Samuel Hood's capture
of the French frigates, no great victory at sea has since
taken place, unless we count the bombardment of Al-
giers, Acre, and the destruction of the Turkish fleet at
Navarino. No fleet battle or victory has been fought
or won, and Nelson sealed with his blood the book of
great naval battles upon the glorious 21st of October, of
which we must pronounce this the jubilee, and I now
beg all present to stand up, whilst we drink to the me-
mory of Vice-Admiral Viscount Nelson, a former mem-
ber of the club, in solemn silence, and to the memory of
those who fell with him on the glorious ooeasion.
After the ordinary toasts as they stood on the list for
the President's guidance had been given, he said : We
now drink to the health of Lord Hardinge and the army,
Lord Raglan, his troops, and the brave allies with whom
he is associated in arms for the security of Europe against
despotism ; and may the proud victory of Alma—gained
by them and the brave army of France, with our brave
friends the Turks, who have shown such noble examples
of resistance, and our own national troops—be followed
up by a succession of similar victories, for the security
of Europe and the establishment of lasting peace.
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm and cheers.
Vice-Admiral Sir WILLIAM DILLON proposed "The
Health of their noble Guest, Earl Nelson," in a neat and
complimentary speech.
Earl Nelson, in reply, said it was a proud source of
delight to him, and ever to be held in memory, that he
had been in►i`ed to meet en such an occasion the brother
officers and admirers of the great man whose hunours he
now represented, and in so noble an institution, of which
Admiral Viscount Nelsen was a member. -
Captain RICHARDSON, who was not in. the action, pro-
posed "The Health of the Survivors of the glorious
Victory of Trafalgar ;" and
Captain Swsnwr, now one of the captains of Green-
wich Hospital, who was an acting lieutenant in the action,
as senior officer of those present, responded to it.
The meeting soon after separated.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR T. B. MARTIN,
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 21.—The senior officer of the Bri-
tish navy, Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.8.,
died at a quarter past one o'clock this afternoon, at the
resieleuce of his son, Rear-Admiral W. F. Martin, au-
periatendent of this dockyard, at the age of 82. The
deceased Admiral was the Admiral of the Fleet, and
Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. He had been
staying at his son's official residence for some months,
gradually sinking from old age, until at length it be-
came impossible to remove him to his own residence.
In addition to Rear-Admiral W. F. Martin, the other
surviving eon of the aged officer, Rear-Admiral Henry
Byam Martin, C. 8., was present at the hour of dissolu-
tion, the latter having arrived home in the Leopard,
from the Baltic.
Sir Thomas Byam Martin was third son of Sir Henry
Byam Martin,Bart., Surveyor of the Navy, and M.P. for
Southampton, and was intimately connected by family and
marriage with numerous naval, military, and civil servants
of the Crown. Hisname was firet places on the books of a
man-of-war, the Foudroyant, 80, Captain Jervis, in
June, 1782, and he entered the Royal Naval Aca-
demy in 1735, embarking in March of the following
year as captain's servant on board the Pegasus, 28,
commanded by H.R.H. Prince William Henry, with
whom he continued to serve, and as midshipman in
the Andromeda frigate, on the North American and
West India stations, till July, 1739. He continued,
in ♦arious ships, on Channel service till October the
following year, when he was made lieutenant into the
Canada, 74, Captains Lord Hugh Seymour and Eras-
mus Gower. Again serving in this capacity in the
Inconstant and Juno, frigates, he was promoted in
May, 1793, to the command of the Tisiphone, 13, in
which he wes present at the occupation by Lord Hood
of Toulon, but which place the English were compelled
to evacuate by the genius, then beginning to display
itself, of Bonaparte. In six menthe after, being made
mainlander, Sir Thomas Martin was posted into the
Modeste frigate. Being afterwards appointed to the
Artois, he cooperated in the reduction of Ristia. Ile
was again removed to the command of the Santa Mar•
garitta 40 guns and 237 men, when he made prizes of
the French corvette Le Jean Bart, 18, and the priva-
teers, Le Bonaparte, 16 guns and 137 men, and Le
Veageur, 13 gun■ avid 110 men ; and on the Bth of June,
1796, after a close and gallant action of 20 minutes, he
effected the capture of Le Tansies, of 40 guns and 306
men, the latter losing 13 killed and 12 wounded, whilst
the loss of the English, according to the Gazette, was
only two killed and three wounded. In December of
the same year he took the Tamar, 38, to the Weet In-
dies, and was present in April the following year in the
unsuccessful attack on Puerto Rico. He was, however,
well compensated for this disappointment, for, during
the next five months, he captured no less than nine
French privateers, carrying altogether 58 guns and 510
men ; thus conferring material benefits on the merchant
shipping. He 'text bad command of the Dictator, 64,
and the Fisgard, 46, and 231 men in the Channel, and
in the latter, on the 20th of October, 1793, being off
Brest, he succeeded in capturing the French ship
Immortalite, of 42 guns, and 530 men, a portion of
whom, however, were troops. The French, after
an obstinate conflict, surrendered, with a loss of 54
killed, and 61 wounded ; the loss of the Fisgard
being 10 killed, and 26 wounded. The fact of
Captain Martin's crew, in both of the above instaaces,
being young and inexperienced, is referred to by
his biographer, O'Byrno, as adding to that officer's merit
in possessing himself of the enemy's ♦essels His next
exploit was on the night of the 23d of June, 1800, when
he had personal command of the boats of a squadron
entering the Quiniper River, effecting on its banks the
destruction of three batteries, mounting seven 24-pannd-
. ere, together with thier magazines. Whilst in the Fis-
gard, he further took the following prizes :—La Venus,
82 guns, 200 men ; La Dagen, 14 guns ; La Gironde,
privateer, of 16 guns and 141 men ; L'Alerte, privateer,
of 14 guns and 84 men ; El Vivo, national vessel, of 14
guns and 100 men ; and three others, mounting 18 guns.
Capta.i❑ Martin's succeeding appointments were to the
Impeteux, 84, in March, 1803, in which ship he served
in the Channel till December, 1805, and in 1807 to the
Prince of Wales, 93, and Implacable, 74, on the home
and Baltic stations.
On the 26th of Aegust, ISOB, war haying broken out
between England and Russia, Captain Martin, in the
Implacable, 74, fell in with, and, after a long chase,
brought to close action, in a most gallant manner, the
Russian 74 gun ship Sewolod, whose fire he silenced in
about 20 minutes, being only prevented from capturing
her by the approach of the whole Russian fleet.
which bore up to her support. The Sewolod soon, how-
ever, grounded at the entrance of the port of Rogers-
wick, and in that position was attacked by Rear-Ad•

miral Sir Samuel Hood, in the Centaur. This vessel, in
her turn, took the ground, but still Sir Samuel com-
pelled the Ru-:sian to surrender after an obstinate de-
fence, in which, and in her engagement with the Impla-
cable, she had 303 men killed, wounded, and missing
She was then set on fire and destroyed ; the Centaur
having been previously hove off the shore, where she had
grounded, by the exertions of Captain Martin, who dis-
played so much professional ability on the occasion as to
call forth the thanks of Sir Samuel Hood. In alluding
to the conduct of the Implacable in her action with the
Sewolod, Sir Samuel, in his official letter, declared him-
self, by any words of his, unable to enhance " the merit
of her brave, worthy, and excellent commander." The
King of Sweden, who was then our ally against Russia,
conferred on Capt. Martin, as an acknowledgment of his
merit, the insignia of a Knight of the Order of the Sword.
To the King of Sweden, however, the destruction of
this one Russian line-of-battle ship was but a poor, if
any, compensation for the irretrievable disaster that betel
the nation in this same year, 1808, by the loss through
treachery of the fortress of Sweaborg. The Swedish
Admiral, Cronetadt, the commander of the fortress, had
a garrison of nearly 8,000 men, superior to that of the
assailing force, with an immense supply of ammunition
and provisions ; still, from base cowardice, or for ac im-
mense bribe, he handed this magnificent fortress over to
the Russians, in whose dominiuns he, a few years after,
died of a broken and mortified spirit, never having at-
tempted any explanation of the circumstances of a crime
which will hand his name down to the execration of all
posterity. The loss of the Implacable, is her engage-
ment with the Sewolod, was 6 killed and 26 wounded.
On the 2d of September, 1808, Captain Martin was ap-
pointed to the Victory, 100, as captain of the fleet,
Under Sir James Saumarez, Commander-in-Chief in the
Baltic. On the 6th of July in the following year, hi v-

ing been again appointed to the Itnplaca6lJ, Captaii
Martin, in company with' the Melpomene, frigate, aided
in the capture of several gun-boats. and a convoy of nine
merchant vessels. near Hango Head, in the Baltic.
Having commanded the Royal Sovereign yacht in 1810,
Captaiu Martin attained the rank of rear-admiral, Aug.
1, 1811, and in April next year he hoisted his flag as
such on board the Aboukir, 74, and returned to the
Baltic, but this time to co-operate with the Russians,
with whom peace had been made. Arriving in that sea,
he took an energetic part in the defence of Riga, and
acting in concert with the Russian army under Prince
Bag,ration against the French army under General
Davoust. In the course of the same year he returned
to England, being appointed second in command at
Plymouth. With the exception of a short time passed
on the coast of Spais and off the Scheldt, he remained
at Plymouth till 1815. In 1814, he received the honour
of knighthood, and was created a K.C.8., 2d of Janu-
ary, 1815 ; a vice admiral, 12th of August, 1819 ;
G.C.8., 3d of March, 1830 ; a full admiral, 22d of
July following ; a rice-admiral of the United Kingdom
in 1847 ; and admiral of the fleet, 13th of Oct., 1849.
But in addition to the honours, appointments, &c.,
stated above, the deceased admiral of the fleet was ap-
pointed, in Jan., 1815, deputy-comptroller of the navy,
and in the fallowing year he succeeded T. B. Thompson,
as Comptroller of the Navy—the duties of which post
be discharged for many years. From 1818 to 1831 he
sat in Parliament for Plymouth. At the time of his
death he wa■ as slier brother of the Trinity House ; he
had bee■ a director of Greenwich Hospital, a Commis-
sioner of the Board of Longitude, &c. At the funerals
of George IV. and William IV. he was an assistant sup-
porter of the canopy over the royal body.
Admiral Martin married Catherine, daughter of Capt.
Robert Faushawe, R.N., Resident Commissioner of Ply-
mouth Dockyard, and sister of the present Rear• Adm-
iral Arthur Fanebawe, C. 8., now Commander-in-Chiel
en the West Indian station. By this alliance ho was
connected with the Admirals Bedford, Sir J. C. White,
and the Hon. Sir R. Stopford. He had issue—three
sons and three daughters. The two elder sons are Rear-
Admirals William Faushawe Martin, Superintendent of
Portsmouth Dockyard ; and Henry Byain Martin, who
has just come home from the Baltic, having had his flog
on beard the Leopard, in command of one of the divi-
sions of that fleet. The you.ng,est son of the deceased
admirtl, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Faushawe Martin,
Deputy Adjutant-General of the Queen's Forces at Bom-
bay, died at Peonah in July, 1846.
The body of the deceased admiral is expected to be
removed to London in a few days for interment in the
family vault.

LAUNCH OF TBE EMPRESS AND QUEEN,
DOVER ROYAL MAIL PICKETS.

On Saturday, two beautiful little steamers, built by
Mare and Co. for the Dover, Calais, and Ostend Royal
mail service, were launched at Black wall. One was
named the Empress, in honour of the consort of Louis
Napoleon, and the other the Queen, in honour of our
own Sovereign. These little vessels ate of 304 tons inea-
•surenaent, and of the following principal dimensions :
Feet. in.
Length betweeu the perpendiculars ... 155 0
Breadth, extreme
Depth at bold
Their machinery, of 100 nominal horse power each,
will be immediately fitted by the eminent firm of Miller,
Itavealaill, and Salkeld, of Glasslaense-fields, and in a
very short time they will be on their station. They are
five feet longer than the celebrated steam-packet Vivid,
with two feet less breadth. Their zuarautes,l speed is
113 knots ; but it is confidently hnticipated that they will
I run the distance between Calais and Dever regularly
1 within an hour and half, and between Dover and o.,tend
1 within four hours. Captain Luke Sinithett, so well
known on the station as the commander of the Princess
Alice, Garland, and Vivid, will command the Empress,
which vessel, and her sister, the Queen, will be fitted
under his superintendence.
It is only just to remark that since the commencement
of the service by the present contractors, we have had
iio missing mails, notwithstanding the tempestuous wea-
ther that prevailed in April and within the last few
weeks, whereas both the Belgian and French steamers
have failed on one or two occasions to keep up the rega-
lar postal communication.

A LORD CHANCELLOR IN THE COUNTY

COURT.

A case, presenting some singular features, has just
been decided in the Kingston Cuunty Court, before J.

F. Fraser, Esq_
The plaintiff, Mr. Wyatt, is a poulterer, earrying on
business at Thames Ditton, near to Boyle Farm, the seat
of the noble defendant, Lord St. Leonards, Lord Chan-
cellor in the Esrl of Derby's Cabinet.
The action was brought to recover 101. for damage
sustained by the plaintiff through the seizure, by his
lordship's direction, of five ducks and a drake so long
back as the 23d of February, 1852, and their detention
fir two years, whereby the plaintiff alleged he had lost
the use of the ducks, the value of their eggs, and their
potential progeny. It appears that the lawn of Boyle
Farm abuts on the Thames, and in front thereof, and
about the centre of the river, is an ait, the property of
Lord St. Leonards. On this lawn and ait divers ducks
and geese have trespassed, causing a damage and nuis-
ance, and to put a stop to the evil his lordship had more
than mace bought up the birds at a high price, but the
public, finding him a good customer, brought fresh
birds, and so the annoyance was continued. Instruc
tions were ultimately given to the servants at Boyle
Farm to seize and impound all the ducks upon his lord-
ship's property ; and hence the seizure of the five clucks
and a drake belonging to the plaintiff, and their impri-
sonment until a few days ago.
Mr. Chitty, the barrister, on behalf of the noble de-
fendant, contended that the ducks at the time of seizure
being damage feasant on the property of his lordship, he
was authorised in la.v to impound them. He had given
notice of the impounding immediately he could ascertain
the owner, and as the plaintiff throughout had refused to
pay for the keep of the birds the defendant was justified
in detaining them as long as be did. By the act of last
session, 17 and 18 Vic,, cap. 60, his lordship could have
sold them to pay fir the keep, but, having that power,
he declined to put money in his pocket, and returned
them.
The learned judge explained to the jury that the de-
fendant had a right to impound cattle when found on his
land, and retain them until amends were made for the
damage done ; but the question of distraining ducks had
never occurred, and it might have been occasioned by
the difficulty in catching them ; but he acknowledged
that on principle he could not see why an animal on four
legs or on two, whether covered with hair or feathers,
found doing damage should net be impounded, and if
one, why not the other? As far as authority went, he
could find none to serve him on either side, and should
refrain from expressing any opinion. The plaintiff's
proper way would have been to have paid the damage
on the first impounding, and if he thought proper
then to have brought this action, or purchased fresh
ducks to supply the place of the former ones.
The jury found that the plaintiff had sustained 30s.
damages ; that the ducks were doing damage to the ait
at the time of their seizure, and that there was no evi.
dente what had become of the eggs laid by the ducks
during the time of their imprisonment.
The case excited great interest amongst a crowded
court.

BEATISLI.

Aberdeen ;• 7: .• •• • •

Belfast and Ballymena • •
Belfast and County Down• • • •
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che Shire
Bolton, Blackburn, And West York •• ••
Bristol and Exeter • • • • ..• • • • • • ••
Caledonian.. • ....... .. • • •• • • •• ••

26%
104',4
189 4
142
9)%

gdinhurgh and Glasforr . • • • • •• •• • • • •
Chester and flolyhead..• .. • • • • .• •• ••
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage
Cork and Bandon ••.. • ..........

.
Dublin and ltel last Junction • • •• • •
Dublin and Drogheda.. • • •• • •
Dublin and Kingstown .. • • • • ........
Dundee and Arbroath .. • • •• • • • • •• • •
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk anA Etnilskillen• • .. • • • • • - ••
East Anglian.— •• ••• • • •
East Lancashire • • • • • • • • •• • •
Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. ••
Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • •
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee— • • ••
Exeter and Credit On.. • .. •• • • • • • •
Furness Railway •• • •••• • •

81%
417

171%
283
1811
319%
254
90
260

Glasgow, and S-outh-Western• • ......
Great Northern and Z. L. •• •• •• ••
Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Great Western
Irish South Eastern • • •• •• •• •• •• •• • •

Lancaster and Carlisle • . •• ..... .
Lancashire and Yorkshire ••••• • • ••
Leeds Northern ...• .. • • • • • • • • • • •• ••
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport...,
London and North Western .• • • • •• • •
London and Biackwall •••• • • •• • •
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South We5tern.........
Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • • • ••
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Shefile id. and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction •
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • •
Midland • ••

1011
553%
5%
174
2534

167(
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495%

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,didland (Ireat Western (Irish) ••.• •
Nionkl ands • • • • • • • • .. • - • . • • ...
Newcastle and Carlisle • • .... •• .. .
North liritish .... ••

2!58
8814
162

North F,taffordslitre ••••.. • . • •

North-Weaturn_ •. •• • .

2,210

cottish Central .. • • • • • • ....
Scottish Midland .. • • ......

5,313
10,:352

4,694
166
212

Shrewsbury and Birmingham ....
Shrewsbury stud Chester •• ........
-;firopshire Union ..•• •• •• ........

1,457
1,020
517
891

813
5,284

'.7,outh Devon • • • • • • • . • •• • •
.out! Emitern • • •• • • ••
South WAles .••..• • • . • •

South York., Doncaster, and Goole

22.390

2,701

Ulster. • • • • • •.!

4,966
19,013
,169
23,144

7,153
18,228

:395
53,243
1,209
13,624
13,632
486

11,115

636
729
/5,711
2,517

xvaterford and Limerick ...........
West Cornwall .. •••• •... •• •• •
Whitehaven Junction .•• ••
York and Newcasnlc, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds

4,721

871
2,937
679
2,234
19,012
8,177
1,549
2,391