Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . miral Arbuthnot, in America, who shared the profitsof rapine Avith his secretary Green, who was known through the fleet to bethe most profligate and prostituted knave. ^ Set by Hook, and later by Arne. - I.(. dilifrences. 3 John Montague, then Admiral of the Blue and Commander-in-Chief atPortsmouth. Charnock frives him the reputationof a man possessing thestrictest integrity and a most benevolent heart, unha
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . miral Arbuthnot, in America, who shared the profitsof rapine Avith his secretary Green, who was known through the fleet to bethe most profligate and prostituted knave. ^ Set by Hook, and later by Arne. - I.(. dilifrences. 3 John Montague, then Admiral of the Blue and Commander-in-Chief atPortsmouth. Charnock frives him the reputationof a man possessing thestrictest integrity and a most benevolent heart, unhappily alloyed by someintemperance. ^ Hoods relations with Rodney are fully shown in * Letters Written by ttir Samuel Hood (Navy Records Society, llStto). THE NAVY, 291 1784] In an autobiographical work Avhicli Thompson, writing Navalanonymously, published in the London Magazine in 1774-75, atouTmsthere is a very full description of the sea life of the time ina man-of-war. The most characteristic passages are, unfor-tunately, unquotable, but some account of the officers of theStirling Castle in 1755-56, when she was commanded byCaptain (afterwards Admiral Sir Samuel) Cornish, may be. SAillEL, IIUST VISCOUXT HOOD, BY L. F. ABB(JTT. (Xational Portrait Callery.) cited, since it can scarcely be doubted that the officers weretypes. The captain of marines appears to have been the mostdisagreeable of Thompsons fellow-officers : ? Coutradiction was the darling- of his toi)o-ne aud hraiu. and rudenessand quarrel were his delights. He ever seemed happy to give offence,and a duel was at times a thing he eagerly sought or assiduousl)- shunned,for he had, strictly speaking, his days of figliting and of cowardice. Hewas an avowed foe to all persons ; he made it an invariable rule to affrontthem wherever he met them. . No man could mess with him; hetherefore lived in his cabin by himself, a hermit amidst oOO men. Hedrank much, and grew more unpleasant as the barometer of Bacchus rose; 292 AX E
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