. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. The Distinguished Arctic ^=)HE SUBJECT of this sketchwas born at Spilsby, Eng-land, April 16, 1786. Thelad was intended for thecle
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. The Distinguished Arctic ^=)HE SUBJECT of this sketchwas born at Spilsby, Eng-land, April 16, 1786. Thelad was intended for theclerical profession, bnt ashe evinced great fondnessfor a seafaring life, hisfather procured for himadmission into the navy asa midshipman, at the age offourteen. When sixteenyears of age, he formed oneof the crew on the Investi-gator, commanded by his cousin. Captain Flinders, who was com-missioned by the English Government to explore the coasts ofAubLralia. When homeward bound on the ship Porpoise, the vessel waswrecked, and our youthful hero, after remaining with the other sea-men fifty days on a sand-bank, was picked up by a relief-boat, takento Canton, China, and there he took passage on an Indiaman forEngland. Subsequently he served as a midshipman in the battle of Trafalgar,in 1805, and afterwards he participated in naval warfare on theAmerican coast against the United States, in 1812-1815. In a gunboat tight at New Orleans, he boarded and captured oneof the American boats, bei
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