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for the indispensable benefit of her health. 

 The horse, though worth 150 guineas, he 

 bays for 50 guineas, of he knows not whom, 

 and very . shortly it is seized as a stolen 

 horse ; and at the same time the husband 

 discovers his wife and Skinner had slept 

 in the same apartment a few miles from 

 town. The husband forthwith visits him 

 with an attorney, and he is frightened into 

 i- compromise of 2,000; and finally, on 

 the lady's being abandoned, as she pre- 

 tended, by her husband, is induced to settle 

 150 a year upon her. 



Thus, however, getting rid of the con- 

 nexion, he proceeds on his original destina- 

 tion, that is, to marry the daughter of an 

 old friend of his, who had left her 15,000, 

 on condition that she shall marry Skinner, 

 or the money go to a charity school. The 

 young lady had never seen Skinner, and 

 before his arrival had bestowed her affections 

 on a youthful and accomplished, but penny- 

 less, artist. On his journey his carriage 

 breaks down, and being mistaken for some- 

 body else, he is taken to a private mad- 

 house, just out of the road, and being there 

 pretty obstreperous, his head is shaven, and 

 he is put to bed in a long shirt. Escaping 

 at last from this embarrassment, but not 

 recovering his curls, he presents himself, 

 thus cropped, to his lovely bride, and al- 

 most as soon as he arrives, he finds, to his 

 amazement, Mr. and Mrs. Fugglestone ap- 

 parently on the most amicable terms. Cer- 

 tain disclosures of course follow, which en- 

 courage the young lady to avow her deter- 

 mination to renounce him and the money ; 

 but luckily for the young people, it turns 

 out, Skinner had himself made the will, to 

 spare the expense of a lawyer, and had 

 made it in the teeth of the statute of mort- 

 main. Skinner quits the place in a rage, 

 and Mrs. Fugglestone contrives to fasten 

 herself on him again ; and, in their way to 

 town, he learns by the papers that his 

 house is burnt to the ground, and again, on 

 reaching town, no money is forthcoming on 

 some Irish mortgages a new claimant ap- 

 pearing for the property ; and thus he finds 

 himself with scarcely a shilling. Mrs. Fug- 

 glestone of course cuts and runs ; but the 

 young artist has just gained 30,000 by 

 the lottery, from a ticket which had been 

 Skinner's, and which he had parted with at 

 a trifling profit, and he and his bride, with 

 her 15,000, being now wealthy people, 

 take compassion on Skinner, and provide 

 him with a residence ; and, eventually, 

 through their means, he recovers some por- 

 tion of his property, and turns out, more- 

 over, an altered man. 



Correspondence and Memoir of Lord 

 Collingwood; 1828 These letters will be 

 read with interest not so much for any 

 novelty of information they contain not so 

 much for clearing up obscurities and sup- 

 plying deficiencies in the events of battles, 

 and the histories of negotiationsnot so 



much for exhibiting the actions of indivi- 

 duals, or sketching the characters of na- 

 tions though something of all these they 

 will do as for the portrait, plain and sim- 

 ple, they present of an honest man, pos- 

 sessed of a sound, if not of a very enlight- 

 ened judgment fond of his profession, and 

 understanding it sensible of his duties, 

 and zealously performing them pursuing 

 his career with steady integrity. courting 

 no man's favour, but relying on his sub- 

 stantial virtues for success, and happily, 

 winning it of a man whose thoughts, 

 though intensely bent on business, were yet 

 anxiously cast upon his domestic felicities, 

 upon his wife and daughters, upon his small 

 but snug retreat in Northumberland, the 

 charms of which he was wont to dwell 

 upon with delight, but which he was not 

 destined to enjoy. 



Lord Collingwood was the son of a gen- 

 tleman of good family and connexions, but 

 of small property, settled at Newcastle, born 

 in 1750, and sent to sea at the age of 

 eleven, under the command of Captain, 

 afterwards Admiral, Brathwaite, who had 

 married a sister of the boy's mother. His 

 kind and susceptible disposition was quickly 

 remarked ; the first lieutenant of the ship 

 finding him shedding tears, when his 

 friends left him on board, took pains to 

 comfort and cheer him, which so won upon 

 the child's feelings, that he led the lieute- 

 nant to his box, and gave him a bit of 

 plum-cake. Under Captain Brathwaite's 

 eye, his education was carefully attended to, 

 and the foundation laid for the skill and 

 knowledge of his profession, for which he 

 was afterwards so much distinguished. 

 With him he served many years, and, in 

 1774, when at Boston, was made a lieute- 

 nant, the day of the battle of Bunker's-hill. 

 In 177G, as a lieutenant in the Hornet 

 sloop, he was on the Jamaica station, 

 where Nelson held the same rank on board 

 the Lowestoffe. The young men were fast 

 friends; and both being proteges and fa- 

 vourites of Sir P. Parker, it so happened, as 

 Collingwood himself says, whenever Nelson 

 got a step, he succeeded him, first in the 

 Lowestoffe then in the Badger, into which 

 he was made commander in 1 779? ana< af- 

 terwards in the Hinchinbrooke, a 28-gun 

 frigate, which made them both Post Cap- 

 tains. 



In the Hinchinbrooke he was employed 

 on an expedition to the Spanish Main, 

 where it was proposed to pass into the 

 South Sea, by a navigation of boats along 

 the river San Juan, and the lakes Nicaragua 

 and Leon; but the plan failed, from the 

 insurmountable difficulties of the country, 

 and the fatal unwholesomeness of the cli- 

 mate. Out of the 200, which composed 

 the crew of his own ship, he buried 180 

 in about four months. The other ships 

 suffered in the same proportion, and of the 

 transports, many sunk from being left lite- 



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