The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-30 00:00:00

HONORARY REWARD BY THE KING OF

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FRENCH.
Admiralty, 28th August, 1844.
Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith a copy of
a letter from the Foreign-office, transmitting a gold
medal which has been awarded by his Majesty the King
of the French to Captain Kreeft, of the English mer-
chant service, for his assistance to a French vessel
wrecked on the coast of Africa; and I am to signify their
Lordships' request that you will cause the said medal to
be delivered safely to Captain Kreeft.—l am, Sir, your
most obedient servant,
(Signed) JOHN BARROW.
W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
(Copy.)
Foreign-office, Aug. 23, 1844.
Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to trans-
mit to you a copy of a note from the Count St. Aulaire,
the French Ambassador at this Court, together with a
gold medal, which the King of the French has been gra-
ciously pleased to award to Captain Kreeft, of the Eng-
lish merchant service, for the important services ren-
dered by him to the crew of a French vessel ship-
wrecked on the coast of Africa, in the month of No-
vember last ; and I am to request that you will cause
the medal to be forwarded to Captain Kreeft.
I am, &c. (Signed) H. U. ADDINGTON.
Sir John Barrow, Bart., &c., &c., &c.

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mrefr (From Punch.)
TB:ye
Jones—nephew
The fact is BOMBARDMENT of TANGIERS
volunteerow n
oft tahlel
fiErns England, land
class,
ot that at
board the
of George Jones, Esq.—has for
BAit
some time been
her Majesty's arspite. This fact—as we have
before observed—is highly honourable to the Earl of
Aberdeen, he having'Wehave
very properly set Jones to watch
been favoured with a letter from
Master Jones on the
late s ,
and though the Standard may, for its own base pur-
poses, contend that the letter was not written by
Jones on board the w
arspite, but by our boy Dick
behind the counter of our office, No. 194, Strand—
we care as little for
as for his praise. thet abuse of our Contemporary
What matters it to the man in the
moon, whether feels at
try to pelt him with mud or
sugar-plums ? And now
H.M.S. Warspite, for Master Jones's letter :
" Mr. Punch,--There way a Bayof Tangiers, Aug. 7, 1844.
good deal of fighting
here yesterday, but after all n
ething to what I've seen
at half-price at Astley's. At half-past 7 a-m., the
French steamers got their steam
Joinville and other ships in tow up, and took Admiral
before the batteries
of Tangiers. It was plain,
that the ships didn't much like however
to to be seen
h,
ebusiness, for some
of 'em went in all sorts of confusion ; and if the
Moors hadn't had pity on the
.emp. e orthings, Lord! how
they might have peppered Our gunner's mate
went mad with disappointment, and has been in a
strait jacket ever since.
" Well, at about half-past eight,
the Suffren and
Jemappes fired away, but with a good deal of dignity
like and consideration.
They
s
were at it till about
Moors two in the afternoon—the banging away for
eff,
dear life. Then the ships sheered , and the Moors
left their flags a-flying, and there was
thought it was
such a roar of
laughter aboard of us, you'd have
pay-day. Bless your heart, whilethe
fig ht was going
of
on, you should have seen someour men. They
looked at the Frenchmen, for all the
world, as you
a
may have seen boys look through pastry-cook's
window at the tarts their mouths watering, but not
being able to get at 'em.
" There has been a good deal of talk about
l the bad
gunnery of Joinville. Poor young man . I dare
say he did quite as well as he could. But when you
remember that he was making his first appearance
before a British audience, who knew what was what,
you must allow it was trying to his nerves.
I've
seen young fellows in his state at the Co burgh, and I
always cried out " Bravo," to encourage em
" The French, however, did fire slow, but ham
sure they only did so from the best of feelings.
could it be otherwise ? Isn't it enough makeow
human creature sick to go banging tto
walls fdi
an
houses—dropping rockets in honest people's dwellingsd
—killing women and children in the street, apn . all
for what numskulls eall glory. I'm sure of t Prince
Joinville Joinville felt ashamed of the work, and so did al
worthy fellows employed in it—and that's why theye
didn't put any heart into the matter—but banged
away by fits and starts, and then hauled
out of the