HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NE\\' SOUTH WALES. 



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THK 01, U ROAD TO BATHURST, 

 MOUNT VICTORIA. 



" It has been said that this circumstance would 

 make the heroes of the British Navy blush with 

 shame and burn with indignation. I certainly at such 

 a suggestion burn with indignation, but who ought 

 to blush with shame I leave others to determine. 

 " The Court will forgive me if I intrude a moment on 

 their time to mention the services in which I have been 

 employed. For twenty-one years I have been a Post- 

 Captain, and have been engaged in services of danger not 

 falling within the ordinary duties of my profession. For 

 four years with Captain Cook in the Resolution, and four 

 years more as a Commander myself, I traversed unknown 

 seas, braving difficulties more terrible because less frequently 



encountered. In subordinate situations I fought under Admiral Parker at the Dogger 

 Bank, and Lord Howe at Gibraltar. In the battle of Camperdown, the Director, under 

 my command, first silenced and then boarded the ship of Admiral de Winter, and after 

 the battle of Copenhagen, where I commanded the Glatton, I was sent for by Lord 



