38 COMMISSIONER. 



I transacting all the business with the 

 dockyard officials, while he superintended 

 the supply of provender for the horses. 



This brought me in frequent personal 

 communication with the excellent officer 

 who so long held the office of Commis- 

 sioner, and performed all its duties with 

 a dignity that sometimes astonished the 

 subordinates, but at the same time with 

 solid advantage to the country. 



His religious views were not quite 

 consonant with the doctrines of the 

 talented and truly orthodox preacher 

 who occupied the pulpit in the dock- 

 yard Chapel ; and their dispositions were 

 neither of them sufficiently pliable to 

 prevent now and then an outbreak or 

 unseemly altercation, which, to the best 

 of my belief, terminated in the resigna- 

 tion of the reverend gentleman. 



It was many years after this, when, 

 accompanied on the box by a minister 



