Who now fhall climb their brows to view The length of landscape, ever new? Whofe genius warm, and judgment chafte, No charm of genuine nature paft, and you As we have at large treated of Mr. Warton's excellence, both of head and heart, we may like (as Mr. Addifon fays) to know fomething of the perfon of a favourite author. My friend was in his youth eminently handfone; and even in the latter part of his life (when he grew large) was remarkably welllooking his countenance was calm and placid, the index of his ferene mind; his eyes were quick and penetrating, faw at once that expreffion which indicates ftrong fenfe and difcernment of mind, as well as much fenfibility of heart. With great mild nefs and gentleness he had alfo much manly dignity, a dignity (not pride) which refulted from his elevated mind; and he had a dignified modefty about him difficult to defcribe. Benevolence was the characteristic of his foul, and appeared to influence all his demeanour: the lines of that benevolence, goodness, and mildness, were deeply impreffed on his countenance; and to perfectly were they imprinted, that the ftamp held to the laft hour of his life. An excellent portrait of Mr. Warton (a remarkable likene fs), by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is in the poffeffion of Dr. Warton, from which very fine picture has been feraped a Mezzotinto by C. Hodges, 1786. This fmall and inadequate tribute to the memory of fo good a man and profound a fcholar, is paid by one who fincerely loved his virtues, and who will ever cherish his memory with the high efteem he io jully deferved. Farewell bleft shade !" For * many a care beguil'd By the fweet magic of thy foothing lay, For many a raptur'd thought and vi fion wild, To thee this ftrain of gratitude I pay.", Life of Admiral Lord Graves. (Concluded from page 448). BUT UT out of ninety four or ninetyve out of day five fail feen the day before, hardly twenty could now be counted. Of the fhips of war there were difcerned the Canada half hull down upon the lee quarter, with the main-top-maft and mizen-maft gone, and the main-top damaged, with the main-yard aloft, and the main-fail furled; the Centaur far to windward without maft, bowfpritor rudder; and the Glorieux without foremaft, bew-fprit, or main topmaft. Of thefe the two latter perifhed with all their crews, excepting the captain of the Centaur and fome few felect people, who with him contrived to flip off from her ftern in one of her boats, without being noticed, and fo efcaped the fate of the reft. The Ville de Paris appeared unhurt, and was commanded by a moft experienced feaman, who had made twenty four voyages to and from the Weft Indies, and had therefore been pitched upon to lead the fleet through the Gulph. Nevertheless fhe was afterwards buried in the fame ocean, with all aboard her, confifting of more than eight hundred people. Of the convoy, befides the Dutton before-mentioned, and the British Queen, feven others were difcovered without maft or bowfprit, eighteen loft mafts, and feveral others had foundered. In the course of this day the Canada croffed upon and paffed the Ramilies in the midft of her diftrefs, but without paying the leaft attention to her. Some of the Trade at tempted to follow the Canada, but the ran at fuch a rate that they foon found it to be in vain, and then returned to wards the flag thip. The Ramilies had N 0 T E. * Mr. Warton to his friend Mr. Gray. at at this time fix feet of water in her hold, and the pumps would not free her, the water-ways having worked out the oakum, and her beams amidship being almoft drawn from their clamps. The admiral therefore gave orders for all the buckets to be manned, and every officer to help towards freeing the hip; the mizen top-fail was fet upon the foremaft, and the main-top-gallant fail on the ftump of the mizen-maft, and the tiller hipped; and in this condition, by bearing away, the feudded on at fo good a rate, that the held pace with fome of the merchantmen. The day having been confumed in baleing and pumping, without material ly gaining on the water, the captain, in the name of the officers, reprefented to the admiral the neceflity of parting with the guns for the relief of the thip; but he faid there would then be no protection left for the convoy; however, at length, and with great difficulty, he confented to their difpofing of the forecaftle and aftermoft quarter deck guns, together with fome of the thot, and other articles of very great weight The enfuing night was employed in balting, and endeavouring to make the pumps ufeful; for the ballaft, by get ting into the well, had choaked, and rendered them of no effect, and the chains had broke as conftantly as repaired. The water had rifen to feven feet in the hold, the wind from the weftward drove a vaft fea before it, and the ship, being old, ftrained moft violently. Upon the morning of the 18th nothing could be feen of the Canada, the having pushed on at her greateft fpeed for England. The frame of the Ramilies having opened during the night, the admiral was prevailed upon by the renewed and preffing remonftrances of his officers, although with apparent reluctance, to let fix of the forward moft, and four of the aftermoft guns of the main deck be thrown overboard, toge ther with the remainder of thofe on the quarter deck; and the hip ftill continuing to open very much, he ordered tarred canvas and hides to be nailed fore and aft from under the fills of the ports on the main deck unto the fifth plank above or within the water-ways; and the crew, without orders, did the fame on the lower deck. Her increafing complaints requiring more ftill to be done, the admiral directed all the guns on the upper deck, the fhot both on that and the lower deck, with various heavy flores, to be hoven overboard; and a leakage in the light room of the grand magazine having almost filled the fhip forward, and there being eight feet of water in the magazine, every gentleman was compelled to take his turn at the whips, or in handing the buckets, and the fhip was frapped from the fore-malt to the main-maft. Notwithstanding their utmoft efforts, the water fill gained in the fucceeding night, the wind blowing very hard with extremely heavy fqualls; a part of the orlop deck fell into the hold, and the fhip herfelf feemed to work exceffively, and to fettle forwards. On the morning of the 19th, therefore, under thefe very alarming circumftances, the admiral commanded both the bower anchors to be cut away, all the junk to be flung overboard, one sheet, and one bower cable to be reduced into junk, and ferved the fame way, together with every ponderous remaining ftore that could be gotten at, and all the powder in the grand magazine (it being damaged,) and the cutter and pinance to be broken up and toffed overboard, the fkidds having already worked off from the fide. Every foul on board now bailed. One of the pumps was gotten up, but to no purpofe, for by the shotlockers being broken down, fome of the fhot, as well as the ballaft, had fallen into the well. And, as the weather moderated a little, every thing was made ready for heaving the lower deck guns into the fea, the admiral being anxious to leave nothing undone for the relief of the fhip. When evening approached, there being twenty merchantmen in fight, the officers united in befeeching him to go into one of them, but this he pofitively refuted to do, "deeming it, as he faid, unpardonable in a commander in chief to defert his garrifon in diftrefs, and that his living a few years longer was of very little confequence, but that by leaving his hip at fuch a time he should difcourage and and flacken the exertions of the people, and fet them a very bad example." The wind lulling fomewhat during the night, all hands baled, the water being at this time fix feet high both fore and aft. On the morning of the 10th the admiral ordered the fpare and ftream anchors to be cut away, and within the courfe of this day all the lower deck guns to be hoven overboard. When evening came, the people in general, even the ftouteft-hearted, began to fail in their fpirits, and openly to exprefs the utmolt defpair, together with the moft earneft defire of quitting the thip, left they should all founder in her. The admiral hereupon advanced, and told them, "that he and the officers had an equal regard for their own lives; that the officers had no intention of deferting either them or the fhip; and that as to himfelf, he was determined to try one night more in her; he therefore hoped, and intreated they would do fo too, for there was ftill room to imagine that one good day, with a moderate fea, might enable them, by united exertion, to clear and fecure the well againft the encroaching ballaft which wathed into it; and if this could be done, they fhould be able to reftore the chains to the pumps and use them, and that then hands enough might be fpared to raife jury mats, with which they might carry the ship to Ireland; that her countenance alone, whilft fhe could fwim, would be fufficient to protect the remaining part of the convoy; and, above all, that as every thing now had been done for her reliet which could be thought of, it would be but reafonable to wait the effect; and he affured them moreover that he would make the fig. nal directly for the Trade to lie by them during the night, which he doubt ed not but they would comply with." This temperate fpecch had the defired effect; the firmnefs and confidence with which he had fpoken, and their reliance on his feamanship and judgment, and his conftant prefence and attention to every accident, had a moft wonderful effect upon them. They became paci. fied, and returned to their duty and work. In reality, fince the firft dilaf ter he had fcarcely ever quitted the deck, which they had all obferved, to gether with his diligence in perfonally viewing every circumftance of diftrefs; they knew his fkill and experience, and placed great truft in them. And he made forth with as he had promised a fignal for all the merchantmen. At this period there was much ground for alarm, and but little for hope, it must be confeffed; for every anchor and gun, excepting one, together with every other matter of any weigh, had been caft into the fea, and yet the hip feemed not to feel any relief; the ftrength of the people was likewise so nearly exhaufted, having had no fleep fince the first fatal ftroke," that one half only of the crew was ordered to bale, and the other to repofe; and, although the wind was much abated, the water within fill augmented upon them in fpite of all the efforts they could make to reduce it, and the ship rolled and worked prodigioufly in a moft unquiet fea. At three in the morning of the 21, being the fourth night, the well being quite broken in, the cafks, ballast, and remaining fhot rushed together and de ftroyed the cylinders of the pumps; the frame and carcafe of the ship began to give way in every part, both within and without; and the officers, carpenters, and whole crew, exclaimed it was im poffible any longer to keep her above water. In this extremity the admiral now refolved within himself not to lose a moment in removing the people whenever daylight fhould come, but told the captain not to communicate any more of his intention, than that he should remove the fick and lame at day-break, and for this end that he should call on board all the boats of the merchantmen. Nevertheless he gave private orders to the captain, whilft this was doing, to have all the bread brought upon the quarter-deck, with a quantity of beef, pork and flour; to fettle the beft diftribution of the people, according to the number of the Trade fhips that fhould obey their fignal, and to allot an officer to each divifion of them; to have the remaining boats launched; and, fo foon as the fick wese gotten d of, to begin to remove the whole of the crew with the utmost difpatch, without rifquing to many in one boat. Accordingly, at dawn, the fignal was made for the boats of the merchant fhips; but nobody fufpected what was to follow, until the bread was entirely removed, and the fick gone. About fix o'clock the people themfelves were permitted to go off; and between nine and ten o'clock, there being nothing further to direct or regulate, the admiral himfelf, after thaking hands with every of ficer, and leaving his barge for the accommodation and transport of the remaining crew, quitted for ever the Ramillies, which had then nine feet of water in her hold. He went into a fmal! leaky boat loaded with bread, out of which both himself and furgeon, who accompanied him, were forced to bale the water all the way. He was in his boots, with his furtout over his uniform, and his hair in a fillet under his hat, which was tied to a button-hole with a ftring, and his countenance as calm and compoled as ever. He had, at going off, defired a cloak, a cafk et flour, and a cafk of water, but could only get the flour; and he left behind bim all his ftock, wines, furniture, books, charts, &c. which had colt him above 1000l. being unwilling to employ even a fingle fervant in fav ing or packing up what belonged to himfelf alone in a time of fuch general calamity, or to appear to fare better in that relpect than any of the crew. He rowed for the Belle, captain Forster,* he being the first of the Trade that had NOT E. Mr. Graves ftrove in vain to procure from government fome reward for this excellent man, to whom he made a prefent out of his private pocket of 50 guineas for a piece of plate; but he had The fatisfaction to learn afterwards, that captain Forfter reaped fome advantage from his extraordinary merit on this occafion; for, in a fubfequent year, while the Belle was detained at Jamaica for want of hands to get fitted and loaded in time to fave the feafon, he bethought himfelf of applying for help to Mr. Gambier, the admiral on the flation, and of fetting forth the ferlib. Mag. June, 1795. borne up to the Ramillies the night before in her imminent diftrefs, and by his anxious humanity had fet fuch an example to his brother-traders as had a very ftrong influence with them, and was very generously followed by fixteen others. By three o'clock most of the complement were taken out, at which time the Ramillies had thirteen feet of water in the hold, and was manifefly fundering in every part; and at half an hour paft four, the captain, first and third lieutenants, with every other foul, except the fourth lieutenant, left her, and this latter gentleman only tarried to carry into execution he admiral's orders for fetting fire to her wreck, when finally deferted. The carcafe burned rapidly, and the flame quickly reaching the powder that was filled in the aftermagazine, and had been lodged very high, the decks and upperworks within thirty-five minutes blew up with a hor rid explofion and volumes of fmuke, whilft the bottom was precipitated down towards the bed of the ocean The admiral at this time in the Belle food for the wreck to fee his last orders executed, as well as to fuccour any boats that might be too full of men, the fwell of the fca being prodigious, although the weather had been moderate ever fince the noon of the foregoing day. There were, however, at intervais fome fqualls, with threats of the wea ther, foon becoming violent, which was actually the care; for within two hours after the latt of the crew had gotten aboard their refpeétive veffels, the wind rofe to a great height, and fo continued N 0 T E. vice he hau been of to the uavy in faving the crew of the Kamilies. So foon as this was mentioned to Mr. Gambier, he fent for captain Forter, and told him he had deferved fo much from the navy in general for faving to the fervice fuch an officer as admiral Graves, that there was no aftance in his power which was not at his command, and fupplied him directly with all the hinds he wanted to complete his thip for her return to England, and fo enabled him to fail with the rest of the Trade, which he otherwife could not have done. without intermiffion for fix or seven days fucceffively, infomuch that no boat could, during that time, have lived in the water. On fo fmall an interval depended the falvation of more than fix hundred lives!-It had, indeed, for the four days next preceding this fatal cata ftrophe, blown fo ftrong a gale, and fo great a fea had followed the Kamillies, that it had been always neceffary to keep her with the wind upon the quarter, with feldom more than the fpritfail hoifted on the foremaft, and at times with no fail at all; in which mu tilated ftate fhe would run at the rate of fix knots an hour. Whenever the main top-gallant fail was fet on the flump of the mizen maft the commonly griped too much, fo as to render the fcerage very difficult; and yet this had been carried whenever it could be, in order to keep freed with the merchantmen, the dulleft of whem went nearly as faft under their bare poles. Even in running thus the Ramillies rolled prodigioufly, and as the grew lighter every day the more uneafy her motion became; fo that the men could fcarcely fland to their work, and could not keep their legs without having fomething to hold by: there was no fuch thing as real repofe for them when fitting or lying down upon the deck, nor fleadinefs enough to be procured to eat or drink with any fecurity: no meat could be dreffed nor did any man or officer go into a bed. Until the afternoon of the 20th there was no venturing to bring her to, even for a boat to come aboard. But notwithflanding this anxious and defperate condition, when fome were hourly dropping, through fatigue and want of fleep, and the decks covered with water, the whole complement bebaved with moft exemplary obedience, attention and fobriety, and remitted no poffible exertions for the prefervation of the fhip. Upon their feparation taking place, the officers, who were diftributed with portions of the crew among the Jamaica-men, had orders refpectively to deliver them to the firt man of war or tender they should aret with, and to acquaint the fecretary to the admiralty by the earlieft opportunity of their proceedings; and a pendant was hoifted the Belle by way of upon diftinction, to lead, if poffible, the reft. Some of the Trade kept with her, and others made the best of their way, under a very natural apprehenfion of their being foon fhort of provifions by having fo many more mouths to feed. The Silver Eel tranfport, who had failed from Bluefields with the invalids of Sir George Rodney's fleet, and was under the command of a lieutenant of the navy, and had been ordered to keep near the Ramillies, was accordingly nigh her on the 21ft of September, the day of her deftruction, and by several deaths upon the paffage, had room enough for the reception of all that were now ailing or maimed, and was therefore charged with them accordingly, being properly fitted for their accommodation. She parted from Mr. Graves in lat. 42. 48. and long. W. 45. 19. after seeing the Ramillies demolithed; and, being ordered to make for the first port, ran inte Falmouth the 6th of October; on the afternoon of which day one of the Trade fhips, with a midshipman and fixteen of the crew of the Ramillies, reached Plymouth Sound, where also another ship of the fame convoy, having a portion like wife of the fame crew, with the captain and firft lieutenant, anchored before day-light the next morning But the Canada, having used her ufmoft fpeed, had, prior to all these, on the fourth of the fame month, gotten to Portfmouth, where the fpread the news of the difperfion of this miferable fleet; which flying to France, made her priva teers immediately put to fea in hopes of making a prey of them, and fome of the Jamaica-men, with part of the comple ment of the Ramillies, fell accordingly into their hands. Two of thefe West Indiamen were captured in fight of the Belle, but the herself, with the admiral and thirty-three of his crew, got fafe, though fingly, into Cork harbour, on the 10th of October, where was the Myrmidon frigate. The admiral directly boifted his lag aboard the latter, and failing with the firft wind arrived the 17th is Plymouth Sound, apparently in good health, but with a fettled opprellion upon his breaft, from the having been to long and to dreadfully expofed upan |