52 NOTICE OF BLIGH. 
A short notice of the life of Admiral Bligh 
will be interesting in this place. It appears 
by the register of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, 
that William, son of Francis and Jane Bligh, 
was baptized in that church, Oct. 4th, 1754. 
Francis, the Admiral's father, was the son of 
Richard Bligh, of Tinten, a duchy estate in 
St. Tudy, a few miles from Bodmin, Cornwall. 
The general residence of the family was near 
Bodmin, where some connexions of the late 
Admiral, who also bear the name of Bligh, are 
still living. 
It has been stated that Bligh had sailed for 
four years with Captain Cook, in whose interesting 
history of researches in the Southern Pacific, 
Bligh' s name more than once occurs. 
The account of his wonderful two years' ad- 
ventures from the beginning of 1788 to the 
beginning of 1790, is before the reader. 
On his return to England in 1790, he was 
made a Commander, and then a Post Captain ; 
the three years' service, according to regulation, 
being, in his case, dispensed with as a mark of 
favour. 
He was again appointed to a ship for the pur- 
pose of conveying the bread-fruit to the West 
Indies. This ship was The Providence, in which 
he set sail August 3d, 1791, accompanied by 
the Assistant, a smaller vessel. They reached 
Otaheite April 9th, 1792, from whence they 
sailed in July with 1,281 tubs and pots of the 
plants in the finest condition. These were dis- 
tributed at St. Helena, St. Vincent's, and Jamaica; 
and he returned to England in August, 1793. 
