liv INTRODUCTION. 
Lieutenant ‘Tuckey was one of about forty heutenants of 
the navy, who had cause to execrate the brutal inhuma- 
nity of the man, who for so many years tyrannized over 
France, and the greater part of the continent of Europe ; 
those who had the misfortune of falling into his clutches, 
felt themselves at once cut off from every hope of ad- 
vancement in their profession, and many fell the victims 
of despair. Not so, however, with Lieutenant ‘Tuckey. 
He still kept up his spirits, and encouraged hope, being, 
as he expressed himself, on another occasion, ‘* by no 
means addicted to contemplate the dark side of events ; 
but as cheerful and happy as the possession of health, 
ease, and a satisfied disposition can make me.” He married 
in 1806, a fellow prisoner, Miss Margaret Stuart, daughter 
of the commander of a ship in the Kast India Company’s 
service, at Bengal. She also had been taken by the 
Rochefort squadron, on her passage in a packet to join 
her father in India. 
Various applications were made at different times, for the 
exchange of Mr. Tuckey; but they proved fruitless, and 
he was doomed to remain a prisoner during the war: sad 
consequence of that implacable spirit of hatred which 
actuated the ruler of France, and made him careless alike 
of the lives of his own, and of his enemy’s prisoners ! How 
many fair prospects were blighted and destroyed by the 
unfeeling obstinacy of this disturber of Kurope ! 
In 1810, after considerable difficulties, and repeated re- 
fusals, Mr. Tuckey obtained permission for his wife to 
visit England, for the purpose of looking after his private 
affairs. Her object being accomplished, she obtained 
passports from the French government to return to her 
