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444 Obituary .
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Christopher Allison ^ Esq »
Died , at Stockton upon Tees , on the Tith of July last , at the close of his 88 th year , CHRISTOPHER ALLISON , Ksq . long a respected member of the society of Protestant Pissenters at that place . To preserve a brief
memorial of his life and character may be grateful toliis friends and acquaintance , and not unacceptable to those who take an interest in man as an expectant of immortality The subject of this sketch in ^ arly youth gave strong indications of a mind prone to adventure and capable of
achievement , and the anecdotes pi the school-boy afford instances of manly generosity , veracity and candour seldom exemplified His youthful ardour , it } s probable , restricted his scholastic attainments to a p actical acquaintance with numbers and a smattering of the Latin , combined with some theoretical
knowledge of navigation ; and thus equipped lie literally launched forth into the world , enrolling himself amonust t { ie sons of maritime adventure . Here he had ample scope for observation and exertion , and the details of his active life mi . ht fill vo umes neither uninstructivc nor uninteresting . One instance of his cool and collected conduct in the
hour of danger must no $ be passed over . We allude to the capture of the Machault privateer , of 14 nine-poimderg and 182 men , with the loss of about 40 men killed and wounded , by the Adyenture , armed fhip , under the command of Capt . Bray , Air . Allison being master . This was effected principally by the skilful maneuvering of the English vessel , in the course of which the-enemy was reduced to such
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a position , as to render his guns useless :, and prevent him from extricating himself and effecting a ret ; eat . Capt . B ay , in his dispatch to the Lords of the Admiralty , assumed the whole merit of the action , and stated a- proceeding from himself what it seems were in fact the suggestions and orders of Mr . Allison , even
in oppos tion to his own ideas ; and from their nature more likely to come from a skilful navigator than an officer employed in fighting the ship . Capt . B . was accordingly rewarded with the command of the Princess Amelia , an 8 c gun ship , whilst the claims of real merit
were never heard or wholly disregarded . Mr . Allison ' s letter to a friend on this occasion at once exhibits his own character for ability and bravery , and affords an account of the transaction , the fidelity of which is guaranteed by his known candour and modesty . SpUbe ^ d ^ Jan 29 , J 75 & . Mr . Reetf , Your favour of the 1 nh I received
on the 20 th , vvherein I find you want to know the particulars of our action * The following is the truth to the best of my knowledge ,, which is , 1 believe , better than any in tjie ^ hip can give . On the it of January , Dungeness l' ^ ht E . by N . from us 4 miles , about 12 at noon haw a snow stand in for Dungent&s , which some took for one of pur . cruisers .
Pinner being ready , Capt . Bray gave orders for all the hanimpc ^ s up an < J clearing the ship , which w » - > done in the time we were at dinner . Mon-icurs , smelling our beef , roast pork and p lumpudding , came down in order to der
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leave little room for thinking of the rest of Europe . The war is carried on -with languor between the Swedes and Russians in Finland , and our intelligence from that quarter is gathered only from Stockholm gazettes , which of course is favourable to the Swedish cause Of the Danes we hear little ; thou ?; n at war with Sweden they pursue no measures wfth activity , nor are they very strenuous in their exertions against us . Austria is still supposed to be meditating a blow against Buonaparte , and
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the events in Spain "will have a grefct effect in accelerating . her movements . Every thing portends a continuance of war and bloodshed : but whether the mighty power of France has reached the utmost limit that Providence has ^ assigned to it , time only can discover . What great purposes are still to be answered by him , who was raided for the depression of kingdoms , we cannot anticipate . It is our part to contemplate with awe those lessons , from which nations might learn justice ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/44/
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