to sit for my portrait, which was painted by Mr. Phillips. In the Miscellaneous Part, No. 3, will be found the Resolutions of the Court, and my answer for their thanks, and also for my picture being permitted to be hung up in the Court-room. These documents were contained in seven volumes, and when completed, including the final report upon all these transactions down to 1827, were presented, in December 1837, with a letter, a copy of which is annexed; but unfortunately all these reports and statements were destroyed by the late dreadful fire at the Royal Exchange, as well as the portraits of Edward Foster, Esq. governor; William Vaughan, Esq. governor; Pasco Grenfell, Esq. governor; and Samuel Fenning, Esq. for long services, and many years a sitting director.

In 1796 I became acquainted with Captain David Woodward, and received from him an account of his hardships and sufferings in the Celebes Seas, and of his residence in the island of that name. He was the mate of the American ship Enterprize, Captain Hubbard, going from Batavia to Manilla, and being detained for some weeks in the Straits of Macassar by head winds, and in distress for provisions, his captain sent him with four men to a vessel at a distance to request supplies; but not being able to procure any beyond a momentary refreshment, they left that ship the next morning, taking with them only a bottle of brandy. They lost sight of both vessels and fell in with a Malay proa, with the crew of which they endeavoured to barter for supplies, offering them money in exchange. The Malays attempted to fire on them, but their muskets failed, when Woodward soon after pushed into an inlet in the island of Celebes, and while they were cutting cocoa

nuts the Malays seized his boat and killed George Miller, the man who was left in charge of it. Woodward and the survivors, after enduring great hardships for nearly twelve days and almost without provisions, surrendered themselves to the natives and lived amongst them, with various hardships, between two and three years. They then seized a boat, reached Macassar, found their way to Batavia, and thence to Calcutta.

While Captain Woodward was there, the Ship America arrived in Bengal, and, to his great surprise and joy, it was commanded by his old friend Captain Hubbard, the very Captain with whom he had sailed three years before in the Enterprise, when he lost him in his boat in the Straits of Macassar. Captain Hubbard was quite overjoyed to see Captain Woodward, and soon convinced him that he had not forgotten him, and told him that he had given up the boat for lost, after having waited in the Straits for three days, and had sent home his clothes to his wife, (or widow as he supposed) with the balance of his wages.

Captain Hubbard pressed Captain Woodward to go with him to the Mauritius, and promised that on their arrival there he should succeed him in the command of the America, which belonged to the same owners as the Enterprize.

At the Mauritius Captain Woodward met with three of his old messmates and fellow-sufferers,-John Cole, George Williams, and William Gideon. The other, named Robert Gilbert, had previously gone to America. As may be supposed, they were not a little glad to see each other again. Being now in a more prosperous situation than when they first parted, he furnished them with clothes and shoes.

Captain Woodward being appointed to the command of

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the America at the Mauritius, arrived in London in 1796, consigned to my firm. I obtained from him a narrative of his sufferings, which was afterwards published by Mr. Johnson, in the year 1805. I dedicated it to my friend and relative, Captain Benjamin Hallowell, an officer well known in the British navy as one of Lord Nelson's Captains in the action of the Nile.*

Captain Hallowell was afterwards created an Admiral and Knight-Commander of the Bath, and took the name of Carew, with an estate bequeathed to him by our relative, Mrs. Gee, of Beddington Park, Surrey, and entailed upon

his heirs.

To Captain Woodward's narrative was added a list of fifty-two well-authenticated cases of accidents, shipwrecks, and interesting escapes by sea and land, calculated to teach that none should even under the most unfavourable circumstances despair.

Messrs. Constable have since published Woodward's Narrative in their Collection of Voyages, vols. 78 and 79.

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"Part of the Orient's main-mast was picked up by the Swiftsure; Captain Hallowell ordered his carpenter to make a coffin of it; the "iron as well as wood was taken from the wreck of the same ship: it (6 was finished as well and handsomely as the workman's skill and ma"terials would permit ; and Captain Hallowell then sent it to the Admiral "with the following letter:

"Sir, I have taken the liberty of presenting to you a coffin made "from the main-mast of L'Orient, that when you have finished your "military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your tro

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phies. But that that period may be far distant, is the earnest wish of your sincere friend, BENJAMIN HALLOWELL."-Southey's Life of

Nelson.

I had the pleasure of seeing Captain Hubbard when he came to London, and of receiving from him a written confirmation of Captain Woodward's Narrative; and it is also a remarkable fact, that one of the seamen who was with Captain Woodward, some years afterwards called on me, and after perusing the narrative, said it was very accurate. He had been in the navy, and wished me to recommend his son to be made a midshipman.

An attempt was made to form a society for the purpose of preserving life, and aiding those who might be exposed to shipwrecks or other hardships, by collecting the narratives of those who had survived such trials, that others might profit by their experience; but the attempt failed.

I felt it my duty, at various periods during the long war, to attend with others the different committees for public subscriptions; such as that upon the loss of the Royal George with Admiral Kempenfelt at Portsmouth, on the 3d August, 1782; that for the suppression of the mutiny at the Nore; and afterwards on another committee for raising a subscription for the relief of the wounded and the families of those who were killed at the battle of Camperdown, under Lord Duncan, when a very large sum was collected. This victory was highly important for its preventing a descent on Ireland.

The year 1797 was a year of much anxiety, from a state of insubordination instigated by evil-minded persons in the British navy; and also by the mutiny at the Nore, which excited so much attention, that the merchants, bankers, and traders of London were publicly convened to meet on

the Royal Exchange, in order to take prompt measures to restore tranquillity; and they came to a resolution to recommend, that all persons who were concerned in the same should not in future be again employed in the naval and merchant service of this country. An active committee was appointed, and a large subscription raised to take such measures as might be deemed expedient upon such an occasion. These resolutions were printed and circulated, and found their way the next morning early on board the man of war in which Parker and his associates were assembled; and from the information given by an elder brother of the Trinity House, who had been detained on board, he stated that the resolutions had produced a great effect on Parker and the ship's crew.

The committee were active in their exertions, and to promote their views, I drew up a little address to the British seamen, which was approved and circulated by the aid of Sir Evan Nepean, Secretary of the Navy.

The resolutions of the merchants, and this address, went to prove how much the British seamen were better off than the seamen of other countries. A copy of the address will be found in the Miscellaneous Part, No. 4.

As one of the committee, I accompanied Captain King, (an elder brother of the Trinity House) to the Admiralty, and saw Sir Evan Nepean, and after some conversation we were introduced to Mr. Pitt and Earl Spencer.

The committee appropriated the funds raised in the purchase of swords and plate, as presents to the officers, and in gratuities to the men, for the performance of their duty, and the suppression of the mutiny.

I felt it my duty also to attend the embarkation of volunteers from the Dundee Arms in Wapping down to