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    ment on tlie first of June , and promoted to the rank of second lieutenant soon after the taking of Copenhagen . The grandfather of Mr Cockles was

    ensign in the battle of Minden , in which he lost his life , aged fifty-four years ; and , in consequnence of his bravery and regularity , the eldest of his

    eight children , Roger Cockles , was admitted into the army at somewhat under the regulationprice of commission , and had the honour to be slain at

    Bunker ' s Hill , leaving an only son , Arthur . The royal favour did not desert the family : on the contrary , this young man was patronized to such a degree that he rose to the rank of

    lieutenant at an age when his grandfather and father had been but ensigns ; in a word , when he scarcely had completed his fortieth year of service aud fifty-first of life ; a period when the mind and body are just

    attaining their full perfection . Although Mr Cockles has much the appearance of being a quiet and unambitious man , he is reported to have displayed on several occasions the

    most impetuous bravery ; and I myself have observed in him some slight ( I say slight ) indications of discontent . Mr Cockles * was always a loyal

    man , as we properly call those who love their king above all other blessings ; and yet he thought it hard , he said , to have seen , in the various ships in which he had served , every

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    junior in each put above him ; some who were not born when he entered the service , others whom he had instructed and loved , and who were removed to vessels newly built or newly taken , that , to use his own

    expression , " fresh cubs from lprdly kennels , litter after litter , might start from the same

    hatchway , and leap over him . " Being a good accountant , and having learned Italian and Lingua Franca from a sailor of Lord Hotham ' s fleet in the Mediterranean , he offered his services to several mercantile

    houses at Leghorn , on his reduction to half-pay . But one merchant said he could not

    in his conscience give him a higher salary than it had pleaded his Majesty to give him after forty years' service ;

    another , that he could not think of a clerk dining at his table ; that clerks must be clerks , and that gentlemen must be gentlemen . This was an elderly Scotchman , who lately married

    the daughter of a woman he kept for many years . On

    leaving the house of this exemplary person , who had the fortitude , in spite of ill habits , to exchange an irregular life for a regular one , a Turkish merchant , then accidentally

    present , having liked his look and admired his calmness , came after him and addressed to him the following words in the most polished Tuscan : — " Sir , I congratulate those who have exercised the military

    ? The Editor thinks himself at liberty to write the name at length , although the letters composing it are covered with asterisks in the MS .

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    High and Law Life in Italy > 99

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/27/