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"You may depend upon having your old berth here as soon as you like," said Mr Tarwig; "but I am afraid, Mr Owen, seeing you have become an officer in the navy, that you will not be so willing as formerly to take it, though your hand, I'll warrant, has not lost its cunning."
The only tie to any power beyond sea was that the King of England was also King of Ireland; Ireland could legislate for itself, and enter into commercial treaties with foreign powers; but, on the other hand, it had to pay its own debts and provide its own army and navy.
"He is a relation of ours, Captain," said Don Cosme; "an officer in the Spanish navy." This information pained me, although I scarcely knew why. "You have a friend, then, aboard the Spanish ship," said I to the elder of the sisters. "'Tis well; it will be in his power to restore to you your brother."
Large as the 'waste' was in the Royal Navy, it was, and still is, much larger in the merchant service. We may safely put it at 8 per cent. at least. Therefore, simply to keep up its numbers 80,000 the merchant service would have had to engage fully 6400 fresh hands.
Patrick's piper that played the last snake out of Ireland! I've shed me blood for Uncle Sam! That is something you garbies haven't done. And, oh, goodness! Ain't I hungry just!" Because of the repairs necessary to the Kennebunk she was ordered home; but to the delight of the four Navy boys they, with Hertig and Mr. MacMasters, were not to go with her.
When Captain Parrey, of the royal navy, returned from Liverpool, to which place Government had sent him, he brought with him the admeasurement of several vessels, which had been so employed, and laid them on the table of the House of Commons. At the top of his list stood the ship Brookes.
Chandler Anderson as counsel, of course. I have appointed a Committee Skinner, the Consul-General, Lieut.-Commander McCrary of our Navy, Kent of the Bankers Trust Company, New York, and one other man yet to be chosen to advise, after investigation, about every proposed expenditure.
"I'll take that and swim over with it," proposed Hal, briskly, reaching out his hand for the bag. "Oh, no, no!" protested the man. "I'd sooner stay here. The satchel doesn't go out of my hands." "Better take to the water, father, and do the best you can," advised the younger man in a growl. "These fellows belong to the United States Navy, and they're determined to rescue us.
It certainly could not have been given because of any conviction in Canning's mind that the Duke of Clarence was likely to render signal benefit to the royal navy, to the State, or to the country by his services in such an office.
"A captain in the Royal Navy, now on half-pay, sir." The fat clergyman laughed at my laconic reply. "Vernon, ha!" he repeated after me. "I wonder if he is the Frank Vernon I once knew?" "Can't say, sir," said I, cautiously. "My mother, though, always calls him `Frank." My new friend laughed again.
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