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Professor Clifford himself, then dead, is disposed of with a not ungraceful mixture of pity and satire; Messrs Moody and Sankey are not unpleasantly rallied; Satan and Tisiphone, Mr Ruskin and Sir Robert Phillimore, once more remind one of the groves of Blarney or the more doubtful chorus in the Anti-Jacobin.
The effect of this recital was so satisfactory, that a bulletin in the evening announced that the Queen was convalescent. The third day Æsculapius took his departure, having previously enjoined change of scene for her Majesty, and a visit to the Elysian Fields! 'Heh, heh! shrieked Tisiphone. 'Hah, hah! squeaked Megæra. 'Hoh, hoh! moaned Alecto. 'Now or never,'said the infernal sisters.
And just now, while Diabolus was speaking these words to Mansoul, Tisiphone shot at Captain Resistance, where he stood on the gate, and mortally wounded him in the head, so that he, to the amazement of the townsmen, fell down quite dead over the wall. Now, when Captain Resistance was dead and he was the only man of war in the town poor Mansoul was left wholly naked of courage. Then stood forth Mr.
Few were the Athenians who would pass that cleft in the Areopagus where the “Avengers” had their grim sanctuary without a quick motion of the hands to avert the evil eye. Thieves and others of evil conscience would make a wide circuit rather than pass this abode of Alecto, Megæra, and Tisiphone, pitiless pursuers of the guilty.
Captures a French ship of thirty-six guns. Is despatched to Sir Samuel Hood. Arrives at Barbadoes. Escapes from two French men-of-war. Passes through an intricate channel. Joins Sir Samuel Hood. Gallant conduct in cutting out a vessel. Tisiphone ordered home. Fortunate exchange with Captain Stanhope. Takes command of the Russell.
Come, Pluto, I am sure that the chariot must be ready! So saying, her Majesty took the arm of her spouse, and with a haughty curtsey left the apartment. 'Did you ever! shrieked Tisiphone, as the door closed. 'No! never! squeaked Megaera. 'Never! never! moaned Alecto. 'She must understand what she believes, must she? said Lachesis, scarcely less irritated.
Saumarez was promoted to the rank of commander, although only second lieutenant; the first being wounded early in the action, the duty had fallen on our hero: and he was immediately appointed to the Tisiphone, a fire-ship constructed on a new plan, and armed with carronades, which was then fitting at Sheerness; his commission as "master and commander," bearing date for that ship, the 23rd August 1781.
The Furies uttered a suppressed sound between a murmur and a growl. 'I have ordered the chariot, said Pluto. 'I propose to take the Queen a ride, and show her some of our lions. 'She will, I am sure, be delighted, said Lachesis. 'I long to see Ixion, said Proserpine. 'The wretch! shrieked Tisiphone. 'I cannot help thinking that he has been very unfairly treated, said Proserpine.
It was essential, therefore, to apprise the British commander in the West Indies of the approach of the French reinforcements as well as of Kempenfelt's successes, and the Tisiphone was the same day despatched on this errand. Although he knew it not, Saumarez was now being borne by the tide which leads on to fortune.
On the 23d of August, eighteen days after the action, he was made commander into the Tisiphone, a small but fast cruiser, technically called a fire-ship, and attached to the Channel fleet. In December, the British government learned that a large number of transports and supply ships were about to sail from Brest for the West Indies.
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