. Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British Navy; with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period . 6 ^ I ^HESE were honourable among the thirty,A says the ancient Hebrew chronicler, yetthey attained not unto the first three. Sincethat far-away day, when the three mighty menbroke through the host of the Philistines thatthey might bring their chieftain water from thewell of Bethlehem, to how many fighters, landand sea, have these words been applicable! —men valiant in de
. Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British Navy; with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period . 6 ^ I ^HESE were honourable among the thirty,A says the ancient Hebrew chronicler, yetthey attained not unto the first three. Sincethat far-away day, when the three mighty menbroke through the host of the Philistines thatthey might bring their chieftain water from thewell of Bethlehem, to how many fighters, landand sea, have these words been applicable! —men valiant in deed, wise in council, patient inendurance, yet lacking that divine somewhatwhich, for want of a better name, we call such an one now, and, in contrasted sequence,of another of his peers, we are about to give anaccount; men who in their respective careersillustrated more conspicuously, the one thedistinctively military, the other the more purelynautical, aspects, in the due blending of whichthe excellence of the profession is realized ; fore-most, both, among the ocean warriors whosepennants flew through the wild scenes whereEnglands flag was called to brave the battle andthe breeze, James, Lord de Saumarez 383 Till dangers troubled night depart,And the star of peace return. James Saumarez was born on the nth ofMarch, 1757, in Guernsey, one of the Channelgroup of islands that still remain attached to theEnglish crown, — the sole remaining fragment ofthe Norman duchy to which the kingdom itselfwas for a while but an appendage. In Saumarezschildhood, French was still so generally spokenthere that, despite the very early age at whichhe went to sea, he always retained a perfect mas-tery of that language; and it is recorded thatone of his uncles, being intended for the sea ser-vice, was sent to school in England when tenyears old, in order to acquire the use of such a stock, whose lineage among thegentry of the island can be traced to the four-tee
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