The Breda, Admiral Benbow and Captain Fogg 70 guns.
The Defiance, Captain Richard Kirby 64 „
The Greenwich, Captain Cooper Wade 54 „
The Ruby, Captain George Walton 48 „
The Pendennis, Captain Thomas Hudson 48 „
The Windsor, Captain John Constable 48 „
The Falmouth, Captain Samuel Vincent 48 „
Footnote 7:
Like most of the admiral’s domestic history, this destruction of his
tomb is doubtful; unless, indeed, his body was afterwards removed
within the church; for a recent correspondent of that useful and able
periodical, “Notes and Queries,” gives the following epitaph of
Admiral Benbow, from an article in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” on
Monumental Inscriptions in the West Indies:—
“Here lyeth interred the body of JOHN BENBOW, Esq., Admiral of the
White. A true pattern of English courage. Who lost his life in defence
of his Queen and Country, November ye 4th, 1702, in the 62nd year of
his age, by a wound in his leg received in an engagement with Monsr.
Du Casse. Being much lamented.”
[A slab on the pavement.]
The correspondent of “Notes and Queries” goes on to state that “the
admiral lies interred on the right as you approach the altar, and
within the railing, of the parish church of Kingston, Jamaica.”
Footnote 8:
There was no evidence to show that to be so. Kidd was, in fact, taken
when landing from a sloop at Boston.
Footnote 9:
The 19 George III., _v._ 17, sec. 3, amended very properly the above
article by adding to the end of it “or such other punishment as the
offence may deserve.”
Footnote 10:
This lady, the only daughter to survive him, of George, first Viscount
Torrington, was Sarah, wife of John Osborn, Esq., and mother of Sir
Danvers Osborn, third Baronet of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, the
direct ancestor of the present Sir George Robert Osborn, Bart.
Footnote 11:
The prisoner interrupted and said, “I do not look for it, my lord.”
Footnote 12:
When his lordship mentioned the word “painful,” the prisoner said
“joyful.”
Footnote 13:
Dr. Dodd.
Footnote 14:
Queen Anne had stood for this peer, in person, as his godmother, and
hence his second Christian name of Anne.
Footnote 15:
It should be here in fairness mentioned, that Mr. Yonge somewhat errs
as to the Duke of Chartres, who, bad as he was in other respects, (he
was the citizen Egalité of the Revolution), had not the character of a
coward: he, at any rate, behaved with marked courage on this occasion.
Footnote 16:
M. F. Feuillet de Conches, in his recently published correspondence of
Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette and the Princess Elizabeth,—a very
interesting work—gives a curious letter on the subject of Keppel’s
engagement from the pen of the Princess Elizabeth, who was Louis
XVI.’s sister, and the admirable lady whose martyrdom was decidedly
the foulest act among the foul acts of the Reign of Terror. The
princess is writing in or near August, 1778, to her devoted friend
Madame de Bombelles, and the letter is as follows:—“Je n’ai que le
temps, mon ange, de vous dire qu’il y a eu une affaire entre les deux
flottes; que le premier choc a été très-vif, qu’ensuite elles se sont
séparées, et que la nôtre s’est avancée pour un second, mais que les
Anglais se sont retirés. On dit que l’on a remarqué que le vaisseau de
l’Amiral Keppel se battait fort bien, mais que tout d’un coup il y a
eu une grande évolution, qu’il a cessé de se défendre et s’est retiré.
Huit ou dix bâtiments l’ont accompagné, ce qui fait croire que
l’amiral est ou très-blessé ou tué. Il y a dix vaisseaux fort
endommagés, et nous, nous n’en avons que deux qui seront en état de
repartir dans huit jours. Le Duc de Chartres revient passer deux à
trois jours ici. M. Du Chaffault est très-dangereusement blessé. Je
m’affermis encore plus dans ce que je vous ai dit la dernière fois.
J’attends votre réponse avec impatience pour me décider sur ce que je
dois faire. Ne dites point la nouvelle de l’Amiral Keppel, parce
qu’elle n’est pas sûre. Je vous embrasse de tout mon cœur.