The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

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'DISTRESSING CAST.
We copy the following from the FYI:or:1h Chro,
stick :—Mtong the very many distressing cases that.
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brie appeared before the Committee of the Naval
Charitable Society, the Medtorial of Mrs. Faddy,
widow of the late unfortimate Lieutenant Faddy,
will be found most interesting; and more especially
when we view in him the adopted child of our inv.
:mortal Nelson*. This gallant young Otficer's Me-
tnorial to Lord Mulgrava (when First Lord of the
Admiralty), will sufficiently speak his merits. The
sequel of his ntefilneholy .history is this :—ln conse-
quence of the following Memorial, Lord M. sent
Lieut. F. to the West Indies for promotion, where,
instead of advancing his fortunes, he - soon fell a
victim to that unhealthy climate, leaving a young
widow and her infant to deplore his 'loss. Mrs. F.
as widow of a Lieutenant in the Navy, receives a
pension of 401. per annum. In addition to this poor
woman's other misfortunes, she has been for some
time past a sad invalid; she has no relation in the
world hut an old aunt, whose means of subsiAence
ere very scanty. . This good old woman writes to
the writer of this simple statement, thus :—" My
niece's residence is still at No. 20, Ilampden-street,
Somers' Town she has not had it in her power,
from ill health, to do any thing to help herself and
child ; they are both at present much indisposed,
and the expence attending sickness we feel most se-
• ds she has no friend on earth but myself."
The Committee,in consequence of the above Me-
morials, ordered, this unfortunate young woman to
be paid twenty guineas, and it is probable that she
will receive the same sum annually from the Naval
Charitable Society, admitting that her preient sad
condition should not' become ameliorated, and the
fines of the Charity should be in a state to afford
such relief.
• RETRACT OP A LETTER FROM TICE-AIiMUtAL LOUD NELSON,
DATED APRIL 216, 1801.
" I wish I conid, upon every account, announce to von the
prolamin* of yin's w worthy son, ILlbn Admiralty will allow me
to follow my itinnitioni, voir son shall he promoted hest lint
ear, and that ewe is Mr..Faildt, alit was a child in the Van-
guard when his father was have protected him ever
sidle, and he served' his time, and passed last October.---Your
'• excellent heart will, lam sure, accord in this respect with
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• MEMORIAL.
London, Aogust 24, 1809.
Alv Lortp,—Crinitneed that your Lordships always lend a
willing ear" to those who have any claim for promotion, I beg
leave to over the following Memorial to your Lordship's coast-
deratioa.
Your Memorialist entered his Majesty's naval service in the
year i 794, on board the Royal Sovereign, and had the honour
of serving in her at the celebrated retreat oft L'Orient by Ad-
iniral Cornwallis ; in 1708, your Mentorialist.joined the ever to
be regretted Lord 'Nelson, in his Majesty's ship the Vanguuard,
• and served with bins at the glorious battle of the Nile, where
your Mernorislist lost a beloved father (Captain Faddy. of the
blarin^s), besides being wounded himself in the thigh and ancle;
front this period his Lordship considered me as his iiratege, and
I afterwards served with him at the battle of Copenhagen ; in
1801, his Lordship gave me a commiss:on as a Lieutenant into
his Majesty's ship 'triumph, Sir Robert Barlow, and promised,
if I conducted myself as an Officer and a Gentleman, he would,
in two years, make me a Captain ; at the latter end of that year,
the Triumph being paid off, I seas removed into his Majesty's
• ship Barflrtir, and had the honour of serving in the attack os the
Combined Fhlets. by Admiral Sir R. Calder, in July, 1 tros ; on the
Barfieur's goi ttg is to refit. I was removed into his Majesty's ship
London. Sir li. LI. N eale, and sailing on a cruise to the westward,
we fell in with tin French snips of war, Le Marengo and La
Belle Poole; an action commenced, in the beat of which your
alentorlalist .lost his left arm, and' received a piece of as iron
splinter in his left shudder, besides experiencing several severe
contusions in Isis bend, face, and neck. Your .Memorialist bay-.
ing been eighteea different times opposed to the enemy. lu which
be has received eleven wounds, and finding that the above-men-
tioned circuiristanees have rendered him ahuost incapable of per-
forming the duty of a Lieutenant. and having lost his principal
Interest and best friend in Lord Nelson, lie hopes, from Melte
claims, your Lordship will not feel it presumptuous in his re.
ones:log your lordship to 'tibia Min in obtaining the rank of
Commander.
tor Dia geueril character, your Memorialist begs leave to refer
your Lordship to Sir Robert Barlow and Sir 11. B. Neale.,
And your memorialist shall ever pray,
(sigottlwas WM. FADE/V. Lieut. R. N.
Akimilar Memorial presented to Mr. Yorke, requesting
to be emeintied on Lord Mulgrave's List, as Lieutenant Faddy
was only six arena promotion when his Lordship went bat of
office.

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