88 TESTIMONIES OF HIS CHARACTER. 
fifty-eighth year, and was buried in a vault 
at Highgate Chapel. 
There is not room in these pages for an 
enumeration of his professional services ; but 
Lieut. Marshall, in his Naval Biography, 
supplies the deficiency by the following 
passage, written in 1825, respecting him : 
" The misfortunes of his youth proved highly 
beneficial to him. The greater part of those 
distinguished officers who had sat as members 
of the court-martial, justly considering him 
much more unfortunate than criminal, ex- 
tended their patronage to him immediately 
after his release ; and through their good 
offices, and his own meritorious behaviour, 
he was subsequently advanced, step by step, 
to the rank he at present holds. The duties 
which have fallen to his share he has ever 
performed with a zeal not inferior to that of 
any other officer in the service. The young 
men who have had the honour of serving 
under him, many of whom now enjoy com- 
missions, will readily and gratefully acknow- 
ledge, that, both by precept, and his own 
example, he invariably endeavoured to form 
their characters, as men and officers, in the 
