Nautical Standard (Newspaper) - January 8, 1853, London, Middlesex STEAM AND NAVIGATION GAZETTE ENGLAND'S BEST BULWARKS ARE HER WOODEN Vol. JANUARY 8, 1853. 6d Editorial and Naval 17 Iron and Magnetic Alienations 19 The United States Army and Navy 20 Admiralty 21 Coast Guard 21 22 23 West Coast of 23 Prize 23 Dockyards 23 8�J Explosion of a Vessel by 24 The 25 of the Devonport Home 26 The Royal Geographical 26 Mercantile Steam Marine 27 Peninsular and Oriental 27 British and North American 27 Royal West India Mail Company 27 General Screw Steam Shipping Company 27 Imperial Original Correspondence Carpenters of the Royal Warrant Officers of the American The New First Lord The Lost The Practice of Saluting Trench Screw Line of Battle Ships 29 Foreign and Colonial Intelligence 2j> 29 Description of Nasmyth's Floating Mortar or Short Range 211 Law 30 Admiralty 30 Yachting 30 30 and 31 Advertisements 32 TO Persons desirous of receiving the Nautical Standard are that it may be obtained through all news or forwarded direct from the Office by the Saturday Morning on payment of- s. d. Per quarter 0 6 6 Per 0 13 0 Per year 1 6 0 All Orders for 6s., annual subscription payable in should be made payable to Mr. Horatio at the General St. d Jan. 6, 1762. French 20-gun captured after an action of one hour's duration and the loss of 7 killed and 20 by 36-gun Captain Thomas - 6, 1807. French 16-gun brig captured by 16-gun Capt. - 6, 1814. French 40 gun frigate captured off the Cape de by 38, and 36, Captains Peter Rainier and Philip - 7, 1797, French 36-gun en Ville de captured by a British squadron under Sir T. on the Irish 8, 1758. French 32-gun privateer Vengeance ROYAL captured off the by 28, Capt. John after an action of 50 in which the enemy had 52 men killed and 37 out of a crew of 319. The Hussar had 6 killed 15 1761. French 32-gun frigate captured on coast of by 32, Captain Joseph after an action of two The Unicorn had her captain and 5 men killed and 10 The loss of the enemy was much more having the greater portion of crew killed or - 8, 1798. French 16gfrun privateer captured off by 18-gun Capt. A. after a gallant defence and the loss of one man killed and 8 10, 1707. French 16-gun brig taken near by 36, Captain R. - 10, 1806. Dutch ship 68, and 40, driven on shore at the Cape of Good by squadron under Sir Home - 10, 1813. French 12-gun brig captured off Monte by 36, Captain - 11, 1797. 18-gun brig captured in the by 32-gun frigate Captain Sir Thomas - 11, 1810. The 10-gun brig Captain Richard attacked seven lying at anchor in Dieppe and having laid the Amiable Captain of 16 on succeeded in bringing her with no greater loss than two men - 11, 1810. French 16-gun captured near after a fight of upwards of two by 18-gun brig Capt. Francis 2 10 4 Stanfell - 12, 1745. Spanish 20-gun ship captured on North American by of 24 Capt. T. after a smart and the loss of 40 and 116 out ol a crew of 326 5 13 - 12, 1794. The French 18-gun brig taken by of 20 Captain R. off Cape - 12, 1806. The Cape of Good Hope surrendered to squadron under Sir Home and 5,000 troops under Major-General Sir David - 13, 1797. The French 74-gun ship Droits de sustained an action with the Whosoever commands the commands the whosoever commands the Trade of thf commands the Treasures of the and consequently the world Sir W. JANUARY 8, 1853. ADMIRALTY REFORMS AND NAVAL The student of history will have remarked in trie affairs of men and in the political arrangements which arise out of the pressure of the circumstances of the there is something very like a succession of each running imperceptibly into or abruptly closing at a point out of which arrangements and a new order of progress is Napoleon Bonaparte after having been a witness of the organic changes which convulsed France at the close of the 17th biding his was at length enabled to give an impulse to the society of which he had been contented to remain for years in ignoble While France was 44, Captain Sir Edward and 36, Captain K. from 5h. 30m. until 4h. 20m., on the 14th, when the land being discovered in Audierne the frigates hauled off from the threatened but the Amazon standing on the northward struck on the rocks and was At 7h. the Droits de l'Homme was seen on her with a tremendous surf beating over and she became a perfect 13, 1806. 16, taken near Cape by 16, Captain 15, 1801. The French schooner of 4 - and 20 lying in Trois under the protection of the was boarded and carried by boats of and under the orders of Lieutenants and Francis - 15, 1815. American frigate mounting 53 pursued by the 58, 38, and 38, off Sandy was brought to action by the 44, Captain Henry at 2h. but it was not until 6h. that she arrived within musket Both ships continued to engage under all sail until 7h. 58m. The Pres directed her course to the eastward under a press of until 15m., when the arriving the American having sustained a loss of 35 men 70 out of a crew of 469, out of 319 men and 27 had 11 14 just recovering from the effects of the dire calamities which had stained her cities with and choked her streams with the festering corpses of murdered Napoleon saw that the cycle had not yet been complete which was to make him the dictator of Europe and the subjugator of her Waiting the fullness of the young lieutenant of artillery saw the Tuileries attacked by a merciless and sanguinary but could then only reflect upon his own he longed for a park of artillery to teach such miscreants some But the cycle was not complete which was to destroy and trample in the dust one of the oldest thrones of The cycle was incomplete which was to sweep away the institutions which France had religiously preserved from the time of The cycle was not yet complete which was to stain the capital with the blood of a royal which throughout the feudal period of their been prominently conspicuous as ornaments of chivalry and powerful promoters of the civilization which the last of their race was to stain with his Napoleon was of all men the most sagacious of his and read with accuracy the signs and seasons which gave the occasion to his Amidst the ruins of the artillery wandered through the streets of Paris without and once seriously contemplated resigning his commission to enable him to keep a in the capital of which he was so soon after doomed to be the But the cycle was not yet the nobility of France were not yet thirst of civic blood had not yet been and the tyranny of Robespierre and Danton were to precede the more unbounded tyranny which made France an and fertilised the fields of Europe with the blood of her myriads of But this cycle closed at and Napoleon soon learned that he had to play the first part in the scene into which it The history of that cycle is the history of and the Naval and Military lives of our Nelson and Wellington run in parallel columns with
