APPENDIX— I. 637 
ing men — firstly at Halifax, in February 1830, in very severe 
weather, when I assisted Mr. George Star, the purser of the 
** Rose," who had also jumped overboard, in rescuing a cor- 
poral and private of marines; and again at Halifax in 1832, 
when, although I picked up the man before he had been two 
minutes in the water, life was unfortunately extinct; and 
lastly, at Vourla in 1834, when I had the satisfaction of saving 
a life. It happened on the two former of these occasions, that 
I was the commanding officer at the time ; and as no report 
was made of the circumstances, in all probability they would 
still have remained unknown to your Lordship, if I had not 
been impelled by my present feelings to overcome a natural 
repugnance to speaking of myself in this memorial. 
The above statement is not the only proof that I can adduce 
of that devotion to the service, and those professional qualifi- 
cations, on which alone I rest a claim to your Lordship's con- 
sideration. Besides the most constant attention to the ordinary 
duties of every appointment that I have filled, and having 
performed for a long while, as Senior Lieutenant of a large 
ship, those arduous and responsible duties which are held to 
qualify for the situation of commander of a line-of-battle ship, 
I can safely declare (and the fact ought to be known to your 
Lordship), that I have paid especial attention to the manage- 
ment and discipline of men : and to show with how much 
success, I would mention the circumstance that, in the short 
space of nine days, the " Winchester" was dismantled and paid 
ofi", without an accident during the dismantling, or an irregu- 
larity, or the omission of a single formality ; and that, on the 
recent occasion of paying off" the " Thunderer" at Plymouth, 
with a crew of 600 men, no accident or irregularity occurred, 
although during ten days of that disorganizing process, thd 
ship was without marines, and had no other than blue-jacket 
sentries. Moreover, the few hours that I have been able to 
steal from the most active routine duties have still been oc- 
cupied with my profession ; as some proof whereof, I venture 
to remind your Lordship that my invention for the " imitation 
of shot practice" has been so far adopted by his Majesty's 
Government as to be in full use on board the '* * Excellent,' 
trial gunnery ship," at Portsmouth; that Sir Josias Rowley, 
