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commiffion during the greater part of that 
fhort peace.. In 1756, 4 new war broke out 
between Great Britain and France, when, 
early in 1757, he was appointed to the com- 
mand of the Achilles, of fixty guns. This 
fhip was one of the fquadron who took the 
Raifonable, French man of war, in 1757, 
but the action was over before Captain Bar- 
tington could range up along-fide of her. In 
3759, he had an opportunity to fignalize his 
courage, in an engagement with the Count 
de St. Florentin, French ‘man of war, of equal 
force with the Achilles, fhe fought for two 
hours, and had 116 men killed or wounded, 
all her mafts fhot away, and it was with dif- 
Siculty the was got into port. The Achilles 
fad 25 men killed or wounded. In the A- 
chiles, Captain Barrington was after this 
difpatched to America, from whence the re- 
turned about the clofe of the year 1760. In 
the {pring of the enfuing year, Captain Bar- 
Yington ferved under Admiral Keppel, at the 
fiege of Belleifle. ‘To fecurea landing for the 
troops, it became neceffary to attack a fort 
and other works, in a fandy bay, intended 
to be the place of debarkation ; three hips, 
one of which was the Achilles, were deftined 
to this fervice, Captain Barrington got firft 
to his ftation, and foon filenced the fire from 
the fort and from the fhore, and cleared the 
coaft for the landing the troops. They were 
Janded, but were foon obliged to re-embark, 
in which they were well covered by the 
Achilles, and other fhips.. Ten days after 
the troops, however, made good their Jand- 
ing, at a place were the mounting the rock was, 
as the commandersexpreffed it, barely poffible, 
and Captain Barrington was fent home with 
this agreeable news. After the peace of 
3763, Captain Barrington had his turn of 
Tervice, and in 1768 he commanded the Ve- 
nus frigate, in which fhip the late Duke of 
Cumberland was entered as a midfhipman. In 
her he failed to the Mediterranean, and as 
thefe voyages are always intended both for 
pieafure and improvement, he vifited the 
moft celebrated pofts in that fea. The ap- 
pointment. of Barrington to this fervice 
Shews the high opinion the king had of him. 
Soon after his return, the difpute between 
Great Britain and Spain, refpe€ting Falkland’s 
Tfland, took place, and om the fitting out of 
the fleet, Captain Barrington was appointed 
to the commandof the Albion, of 74 guns, 
and foon after made colonel] of marines. He 
found fome little difficulty, froma fearcity 
of feamen, in manning his fhip, and had re- 
courfe to a humourous experiment. He of- 
¥ered a bounty for all lamp-lighters, and men 
of other trades which require alertnefs, who 
would enter; and foon procured a crew, but 
of fuch a defcription that they were, for fome 
time, diftinguifhed by the title of Barrington’s 
‘blackguards. He foon, however, changed 
their complexion. He had Jong berne the 
eharatter of being a thorough bred feaman, and 
_ Admiral Barrington. 
a rigid difciplinarian. His officers under ‘hi 
were the fame, and they foon fucceeded in 
making the Albion one of the beft difciplined 
fhips inthe royal navy. The convention be- 
tween the two courts putting an end to all 
profpeét of hoftilities, the Albion was or- 
dered, as a guardfhip, to Plymouth; in 
which -fituation Captain Barrington com- 
manded her for three years. While in this 
firuation Captain Barrington made himfelf 
univerfally efteemed, and fhewed that he 
poffeffed thofe accomplifhments which adorn 
the officer and the man. Inthe former ca- 
pacity he had fo. completely eftablifhed His 
character, as to be looked up to as one who, 
in cafe of any future war, would be intrufted 
with fome important command, In the lat- 
ter, the traits of benevolence which. are 
know, exclufive of thofe which he was eare= 
ful to keep fecret thew, that with the rough- 
nefs of a feaman, he pofleffed-the benevo-. 
lence of a Chriftian. An economical ftyle of 
living enabled him to indulge his inclination, 
that way, with a moderate income. 
breaking. out of the war with France, Cap- 
tain Barrington, having then been thirty-one, 
years a poft-captain in the navy; was pro- 
moted to the rank of rear admiral, and dif- 
patched with a fquadron to the Weft Indies. 
He found himfelf, on his arrival, fo much 
inferior to the enemy, that he could not pre- 
ferve Dominica from falling into their hands. 
However, before the French fleet, -under 
D’Eftaing, could reach the Weft Indies, he 
was joined, at Barbadoes, by the troops under 
General Grant, from America. He then 
immediately fteered for St. Lucia, and. the 
Britith troops had gained pofieflion of a part of 
the ifland, when the French fleet, under the 
command of Count D’Eftaing, appeared in 
fight. Barrington lay in the Grand Cul de 
Sac, with only three fhips of the line, three 
of fifty guns, and fome frigates, and with 
this force, had not only to detend himfelf 
againft ten fail of the line, many frigates, 
and American armed fhips, but alio to pro- 
tect a large fleet of tranfports, having on 
board provifions and ftores for the army, and 
which there had not yet been time to land, 
So that the fate of the army depended on that 
of the fleet. During the night the admiral 
caufed the tranfports to be warped into the 
-bay, and moored the men of war in_a line 
without them. D’Eftaing, elated with the 
hopes of crufhing this fmall naval force under 
Barrington, attacked him next morning, firft 
with ten fail of the line, but failing, he made 
a fecondattack with his whole force, and was 
equally unfuccefsful, being only able to 
carry off one fingle tranfport, which the Eng- 
lith had not time to warp within the line, . 
This defence is among the fir naval, at- 
chievements of the war, In an attack by 
Jand, on General Meadows’s intrenchments, 
the count was equally repulfed, and the fang 
foon after capitulated. Admiral Byron thortly 
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