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Hear this, admirals and captains on half-pay! hear this, port-admirals and captains afloat! I have often heard that the service was deteriorating, going to the devil, but I never became a convert to the opinion before. Gracious Heaven! what a revengeful feeling is there in the exclamation "O that mine adversary had written a book!"
In many places the shot were still sticking in her sides, her decks were scarcely freed from blood, and other injuries showed the severity of the action. After this, the Victory was constantly employed until the year 1812, from which time she was never recommissioned for sea; but from 1825 until within a few years ago, she bore the flags of the port-admirals of Portsmouth.
A comprehensive measure, with the object of 'rescuing their marine from its condition of impotence, was taken by the Romans in the year 267 B.C. Four quoestores classici in modern naval English we may perhaps call them port-admirals were nominated, and one was stationed at each of four ports. The objects of the Roman Senate, so Mommsen tells us, were very obvious.
How long he might have gone on with this farrago, it is difficult to say; but we were getting tired of him, so we passed the bottle till he left off narrative, and took to friendship. Here his recollection failed him; he began to talk to himself, and to confound me with the first lieutenant. "I'll teach him to write to port-admirals for leave son of a sea cook."
We've got two old mates, Beater and Crowhurst at least, they are old compared to the rest of us, and they are always complaining that they are not port-admirals. However, putting their peculiarities aside, they're capital fellows, and, if they have an opportunity, will show that they have the true metal in them so my chum, Nat Kiddle, says.
So he carries Her Majesty's mails meekly through this world, waits upon port-admirals and captains in his old glazed hat, and is as proud of the pennon at the bow of his little boat, as if it were flying from the mainmast of a thundering man-of-war. Is it breaking a confidence to tell Lieutenant Bundy's history? Let the motive excuse the deed. It is a good, kind, wholesome, and noble character.
Hear this, admirals and captains on half-pay! hear this, port-admirals and captains afloat! I have often heard that the service was deteriorating, going to the devil, but I never became a convert to the opinion before. Gracious Heaven! what a revengeful feeling is there in the exclamation "O that mine adversary had written a book!"
How long he might have gone on with this farrago, it is difficult to say; but we were getting tired of him, so we passed the bottle till he left off narrative, and took to friendship. Here his recollection failed him; he began to talk to himself, and to confound me with the first lieutenant. "I'll teach him to write to port-admirals for leave son of a sea cook."
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