. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. land he was tried by acourt-martial at Portsmouth in August 1817, for theloss of the Alceste, but was most honourably ac-quitted, the court at the same time declaring that his coolness, self-collection, and exertions, werehighly conspicuous. He received the honour ofknighthood May 27, 1818; and May 20, 1819, hewas presented by the East India Company withthe sum of £1,500 for the services rendered byhim to the embassy, and as a remuneration forthe loss he had sustained on
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. land he was tried by acourt-martial at Portsmouth in August 1817, for theloss of the Alceste, but was most honourably ac-quitted, the court at the same time declaring that his coolness, self-collection, and exertions, werehighly conspicuous. He received the honour ofknighthood May 27, 1818; and May 20, 1819, hewas presented by the East India Company withthe sum of £1,500 for the services rendered byhim to the embassy, and as a remuneration forthe loss he had sustained on his return from Chi-na. He was appointed to the Bulwark, a third-rate, in June 1821, was removed to the Britonfrigate, November 28, 1822, and was afterwardsemployed on the South American station. InMay 1831 he was appointed lieutenant-governorof Prince Edwards Island, and was preparing forhis departure, when he died, after a short illness,June 26 of that year. His portrait, which formed the frontispiece toone of the ? olumes of the once celebrated PercyAnecdotes, is given on the following page : MAYXE. 136 MAYNE, John, author of The Siller Gun,and other poems, was born in Dumfries, 26thMarch 1759, and received his education at theGrammar school of that town, under the learnedDr. Chapman, whose memory he has eulogised inthe third canto of his principal poem. Onleaving school, he was sent at an early ageto learn the business of a printer, and was forsome time in office of the Dumfries Jour-nal. He afterwards removed to Glasgow, withhis fathers family, who went to reside on a pro-perty they had acquired at the head of the Green,near that city. While yet a mere youth, erecare was born, he began to court the muses, andhe had earned a poetical reputation before thepublication of the poems of Burns, who, to a littlepiece of Maynes, entitled Hallow-een, is under-stood to have been indebted for the subject of hisinimitable poem under the same name. In 1777 the original o
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