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EDITED BY PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.
LONDON WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE NEW YORK AND TORONTO: W. J. GAGE & CO. 1889
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The materials for a life of Marryat are scanty, and I have acknowledged my obligation to them in the text. Mrs. Ross Church collected, in 1872, all the surviving knowledge about her father’s life--all of it, that is, which the family thought it right to publish to the world. The present little book has no pretensions to be founded on new materials. My object has only been to make the best use I could of already published matter--to tell what story there is to tell in the clearest possible manner, and to add the best estimate of Marryat’s work and position in letters that I could supply.
Frederick Marryat born 10th July, 1792; his parentage; his ancestry; home training; schooling at Enfield; runs away to sea; is sent into the navy and joins the _Impérieuse_ under Captain Lord Cochrane, in September, 1806 11
The naval war in 1806: the frigates of the Great War; Lord Cochrane, afterwards Lord Dundonald, Captain of the _Impérieuse_; his character; his influence on Marryat; the cruises of the frigate as described by Marryat in his private log; a narrow escape; Cochrane in the House of Commons; an affair in the boats; the Maltese privateer, Pasquil Giliano; movements of _Impérieuse_ 17
_Impérieuse_ on coast of Spain; cutting out privateer from Almeria Bay; alliance with Spain; Rosas; the Basque Roads; naval service of Marryat after parting with Cochrane till the end of the Great War; saves several men from drowning; various adventures; summary of his services from 1806 to 1815 31
Marryat’s position in 1815; goes abroad; marriage; appointed to _Beaver_; at St. Helena changes to _Rosario_; in Channel; pays off _Rosario_; the Channel smugglers; appointed to _Larne_; Burmese War; promotion and made a C.B.; transferred to _Tees_ in July, 1824; short command of _Ariadne_; the _Ariadne_ his last ship; resigns command November, 1830; begins writing; equerry to Duke of Sussex; story of William IV. 46