60 NOTICE OF BLIGHr 
to show, that if ever there was a brave officer 
actuated by a resolute sense of duty, uninfluenced 
by selfishness or partiality, it was 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, October 4th, 1754. 
Francis T 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 inte- 
resting 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 end of 1787 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 ordinary 
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- 
