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the like course, his father possess- 

 ing a small but competent fortune. 

 Cuthbert received the rudiments 

 of liis education from tlie rev. H. 

 Moises, M.A. After spending six 

 or seven years under the tuition 

 of this venerable master, who died 

 about two years ago, he left his 

 much-esteemed school-fellows, the 

 present sir W. Scott, judge of the 

 Admiralty Court, and liis younger 

 brother, lord chancellor Eldon, 

 and entered the service in 1761. 

 Like Nelson, he went under the 

 protection and patronage of his 

 maternal uncle, captain Braith- 

 waite, then commanding the Shan- 

 non frigate, who died admiral of 

 the Blue, in his eightieth year, in 

 1805. To this officer he owed his 

 great professional knowledge and 

 skill in all the various branches of 

 nautical science, and with him he 

 continued several years. In 1766, 

 he was a midshipman in the Gib- 

 raltar, and from 1767 to 1772, 

 master's mate in the Liverpool, 

 whence he was taken into the Le- 

 nox, captain (now admiral) Rod- 

 dam, whose disinterested friend- 

 ship for him and his family was 

 nobly rewarded by the future con- 

 duct of his protege. Admiral 

 Roddara also took his younger 

 brother, Wilfred Collingwood, in- 

 to his ship, and brought him to 

 the rank of captain, when he died 

 in the West Indies, about 1779 or 

 1780. Lord Collingwood has 

 another brother in the customs, 

 and two maiden sisters, who still 

 live very retired at Newcastle. By 

 admiral Roddam, lord C. was in- 

 troduced to vice-admiral Graves, 

 and afterwards to sir Peter Parker, 

 and with the former he went in 

 the Preston to America; yet it 

 was not till after he had been four- 

 teen years in the service, that he 



was appointed fourth lieutenant in 

 the Somerset. In 1776, he went 

 to Jamaica in the Hornet sloop, 

 where he became acquainted with 

 Nelson, then second lieutenant of 

 the Lowestoffe, captain Locker. 

 This friendship of congenial minds 

 continued the remainder of their 

 lives ; Collingwood regularly suc- 

 ceeding his friend Nelson in every 

 appointment and ship which he left 

 in the course of his promotion. 

 From the Lowestoffe, Nelson was 

 taken into the Bristol, admiral sir 

 Peter Parker,and Collingwood into 

 the Lowestoffe ; in 1778, Nelson 

 was appointed to the Badger brig, 

 and Collingwood to the Bristol; in 

 1779, Nelson was made post-cap- 

 tain in the Hinchinbrooke, and Col- 

 lingwood in the Badger ; in 1780, 

 Nelson was appointed to the Janus 

 frigate, and was again succeeded 

 by his friend Collingwood. On this 

 occasion,Nelson was snatched from 

 the jaws of death by beingrecalled 

 fromthedestructiveQuixoticexpe- 

 dition to St. Juan on the Spanish 

 Main, and Collingwood whose con- 

 stitution was lessdelicate, survived 

 the effects of that dreadful climate, 

 where, in four months, out of 200 

 men, who composed his ship's com- 

 pany, he buried 180! Of 1,800 

 men, who were sent at different 

 times on this expedition, only 300 

 ever returned. In August he quit- 

 ted a station which had proved 

 equally fatal to the other ships 

 that were employed. In Decem- 

 ber of the same year, he was ap- 

 pointed to the command of the 

 Pelican of twenty-four guns, but 

 his continuance in that ship was 

 not of long duration ; for, on the 

 Istof August, 1781 , she was wreck- 

 ed upon the Morant Key, during 

 the dreadful hurricane which 

 proved so destructive to the West 



