NAVAL MANNERS.

When the old duke of York (brother to George III.) went on board lord

Howe’s ship, as a midshipman, the different captains in the fleet

attended, to pay him their respects, on the quarter-deck. He seemed not

to know what it was to be subordinate, nor to feel the necessity of

moderation in the display of superiority resulting from his high rank,

and he received the officers with some hauteur. This a sailor on the

forecastle observed; and after expressing astonishment at the duke’s

keeping his hat on, he told one of his messmates, that “the thing was

not in its sphere;” adding, “it is no wonder he does not know manners,

as he was never at sea before.”

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