6 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



Dogger Bank, Stowting and the line of the Jenkin 

 family fell on the shoulders of the third brother, 

 Charles. 



Fieeming's Facility and self-indulgence are the family 

 father. marks ; facility (to judge by these imprudent 

 marriages) being at once their quality and their 

 defect ; but in the case of Charles, a man of excep- 

 tional beauty and sweetness both of face and dis- 

 position, the family fault had quite grown to be a 

 virtue, and we find him in consequence the drudge 

 and milk-cow of his relatives. Born in 1766, 

 Charles served at sea in his youth, and smelt both 

 salt water and powder. The Jenkins had inclined 

 hitherto, as far as I can make out, to the land 

 service. Stephen's son had been a soldier ; William 

 (fourth of Stowting) had been an officer of the 

 unhappy Braddock's in America, where, by the way, 

 he owned and afterwards sold an estate on the 

 James River, called after the parental seat ; of 

 which I should like well to hear if it still bears the 

 name. It was probably by the influence of Captain 

 Buckner, already connected with the family by his 

 first marriage, that Charles Jenkin turned his mind 

 in the direction of the navy ; and it was in Buckner's 

 own ship, the Prothte, 64, that the lad made his 

 only campaign. It was in the days of Rodney's 

 war, when the Prothte, we read, captured two large 

 privateers to windward of Barbadocs, and was 

 * materially and distinguishedly engaged ' in both 



