don. There is as much seamanship and
pin. k in a good eutti r action as in a lin
o’-battle sliiri ligid. though you may not
come by a title or tho thanks of parliament
for it. Tii re s Hamilton, for ixami'le, tiie
quiet, p’llc-faef’d man who is loaning
against tl- pillar. It was he who wit! six
rowing boats cut the 44-gun frigate Her
mione from under the muazles of J' l shore
guns in the bari > r of Puerto Cabello. No
navy. Hut I've io ver found a d tlb’iilty,
ami I dare sw*ar that if I hoist my pen
nant toworrow 1 shall have all my old
speedics back, and as many volunteers
as I care to t ike.’’
"That is very well, my lord,” said tiie
old captain, with some warmth. “When
the jacks h<ar that tiie Speedy took fifty
u s . Is in thirteen months they are sure
to volunteer to serve with her comm in ler.
Everv good <Tui-< r < in fill her conip.< im-nt
qui' kly < nouglt. But it is not the crui-’crs
tl al t .ht tin- country's battles .aid idoi k
flmr action was done In tiie w'.-ie war.
There's Brereton, with the whisk, rs. It
was he who attack'd twelve Span n gun
boats in his own little brig, and made four
of them strike to him. There’s W.t.k< r ot
the Rose cutter, who, witli thirt. cn men.
