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nated by such influences ; but we would not have any exposed to them . . We are glad to see , by the preface , that a passage which somewhat surprised us , as coming from Mr . Tagart , does not belong to him , but to Mr . Barrow . The loan of the following remarks did not deserve to be , reckoned an e obligation * : — Christian was
too good an adept not to knoiv that seameii will always pay a more ready and cheerful obedience to officers Who are gentlemen , than to those who may H&ve risen to corrimattd from among themselves . It is , indeed , a corritpon observation in the service , that officers who have risen from before trie mast are generally the greatest tyrants ! It was BHgh ' s misfortune not to have been educated in the cockpit of a man-of-war , which is to the navy what a public
school is to those who are to move in civil society . ' The simila rity of the public school and the cockpit , we have no intention of disputing . There is , no doubt , excellent training in both . What we admirfe is , the beautiful provision of nature , and its harmony with the practice of the British constitution—the one having
endowed the sailor with dn instinctive preference of being commanded , flogged , * tnd perhaps sacrificed , by a yoting ' gentleman , over obeying an officer who has risen solely by his fitness for the post ; and the other furnishing young gentlemen in abundance , ridt guilty of merit or aptitude , ever ready for a vacant commission . The fact is an illustration of the doctrine of final
causes . The nautical instinct and the juvenile aristocracy musthave been made for each other , and both intended to disprove thef St . Simonian heresy , that * every matt should be placed according to his capacity , and rewarded according tp his works / Let the American naVy look to it . What would be its fate in war , with vessels only officered by men who know how to navigate and fight ? They should petition instantly fora supply of young gentlemen for their cockpits : we can spare some .
The Heywood family had one serious failing from Which ev £ n the captain ' s interesting sister , Nessy , was not exempt } they made twaddle verses , — ' very tolerable , and not to be endured . ' What is worse , they made them under circumstances which strongly excite our sympathy ; and it is not pleasant when , in
spirit , we make our call of condolence , to find the supposed mourner busily spinning a yarn of Bysshe . The aulhor should helve thrown a veil over this infirmity . De mortuis nil nisi bohum : —and such lines as the following are not ' bonura
;'—«ANXIETY . * Doubting , dreading * fretful guest , Quit , oh i quit this mortal breast . Why wilt thou niy peace invade , And each brighter prospect shade ? Pain me not with neeciless Fear , But let Hope my bosom cheer ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 807, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/15/
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