OF

THE BRITISH ADMIRALS,

AND

NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE

TIME OF CESAR TO THE CHINESE WAR OF 1841.

CHIEFLY ABRIDGED FROM THE WORK OF

DR. JOHN CAMPBELL.

Ellustrated by Numerous Portraits and Engravings

From Designs

BY PROFESSOR GILFILLAN.

GLASGOW:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD GRIFFIN & CO.

1841.

SOULE!

ABOD

GLASGOW:

PRINTED BY ROBERT MALCOLM, NELSON STREET.

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SIR CHARLES NAPIER, K. C. B.,

THIS VOLUME OF

NAVAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR;

NOT MERELY AS A

TESTIMONY OF HIS ESTEEM FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHARACTER,

BUT

AS A JUST TRIBUTE TO HIS PROFESSIONAL MERIT,

EXEMPLIFIED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS,

WHERE SIGNAL PROOFS WERE AFFORDED TO THE WORLD, THAT HEROISM IS INEXTINGUISHABLE IN THE NAVY OF BRITAIN

AND THAT, PERSONALLY, HE FORMS A BRIGHT EXAMPLE

OF THE VARIOUS QUALITIES ESSENTIAL TO THE PROMOTION OF THAT

NAVAL GREATNESS

WHICH IT IS THE CHIEF OBJECT OF THIS WORK

TO RECORD AND TRANSMIT TO POSTERITY,

AS EVIDENCE AT ONCE OF THE PATRIOTISM OF BRITISH SEAMEN,

AND OF THEIR IMPERISHABLE RENOWN.