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manly, of which better proof needs not be ad- 
duced, than thefe papers, which, under the 
title of THe ENeutrer, have fo much gra- 
tified the libe:al readers of the Monthly Maga- 
zine. hey difplaya vigour.and maturity of 
mind, which fhow the value of long-thinking 
and Jong living in ftrengthening. the under- 
fanding and giving tone to the powers of de- 
cifion.. What he was inthe capacity ef a teacher 
of religion, his fevera! congregations will teftify 
with gratefull and affe€tionate remembrance. 
Few minifters have paid fuch unremitting 
attention to the perfection of their pulpit com- 
pofitiors; nor was it only by detached dif 
eourfes that he inculeated the truths of mo- 
yality and religion, but by methodical plans of 
infiruétion, drawn up w'th great care and com- 
prehenfon. The valuable “fores of this Kind 
which he left behind him, will not be configned 
to oblivion, but, it is hoped, will inform and 
improve numbers to whom the voice of the 
preacher could never bave extended. In deli- 
very, his manner was grave and impyeffive, 
depending rather on the “weight of jut enun- 

ciation than on the arts of oratory. Little 
need be added to this fketch of the moral qua- 
ities of the excellent man above commemo- 
rated. If moderation, compliancy, and. gen- 
tlenefs were ever prevalent in him to a degree 
ef excefs, who that knew him will biame an 
excefs which opered bis foul to every emotion 
and office of affection and. frie endthip ? The 
intimate friend of twenty-feven years, who 
writes this, and who cannot reculle& in that 
period one posi: moment of coolnefs or dif- 
pleafure, feels that he has lof what can never 
be Mepaired, and mournfully dooking ronnd 
him, cries * Where, oh where fhall-1fnd thy 
€¢ foltow F? poh 
The late Caftain Bureess. In our_ aft 
Kumber we infert ted, ayn ong the ceaths. a brief 
account of this one whofe lofs the nation has 
fo. much’ caufe to lament, and whofe amiab! 
«:{pofition and excellent Giginces diftinguimhed 
Lim as much in private life, as he was elevated 
fo a pre-eminent frank in the naval fervice, by 
the fkill, talents, and ardent zeal which fo gio- 
rioufly marked the whole of his . profe -fienal 
career. We then ftated incorrectly, from an 
autherity on which we thought we could de- 
Ee that Captain Burgefs was born at Port 
Glafgow, in Scotland. It will appear in the 
courfe of the following brief fketch of his mili- 
tary life, that he received diitinguifhed marks 
of apprebation in that part of North Britain ; 
and it is moft prebably owing to, this circum- 
fonee that the above error sefpecting his bi:th 
crept inte circulation: but § ‘England claims 
himi as her, native fon; for the captain was 
orn. ie refpectable parents at Topiham, in 
Devon, on the ai7th of Auguft, 1754. He 
Was educated at Tiverton, and went to fea at 
the age of fixteen. He made two. voyages in 
the merchant feryice, one.to the 
other to the Weft-Indies. - He now entered the 
toyal navy, and ferved as midfhipman in the 
Original Notices. of eminent Characters.----Capiain Burgefs. 
- the London. 
‘Captain Burges recaptured, 
“beft proteétion te 
eee he was appointed to the ‘command of the 
Straits, the . 
-[Novr, 
Monarch, commanded by Sir Jothua Rowley, | 
an excellent officer, by whom he was after- 
wards patronized and much diftinguifked. In 
2778, he went to the Weft-Indies with Rear- 
Acmiral Barrington, and was on board the 
Prince of Wales, boch at the reduétion of St. 
Lucia, and at the attack made on the Britith 
fieet by Count d’Eftaing. He was made lieu- 
tenant into the Nenfuch, Captain Griffith, and 
was in Admiral Byron’s aétion off Grenada. 
He was one of the lieutenants of the Conqueror, 
with Captain Griffith, when that gallant officer 
was killed by a thot from the battery, 
while in the purfuit of a French line-of- 
-battle fhip into Fort Royal Bay, Martinique. 
He next ferved as lieutenant under Sir Jofhua — 
Rowley, now promoted to the rank of admiral, 
and was in the aétion of the 17th of April, 
1780, as well as in the fubfequent aétions of — 
that year, between Lord Rodney and Count de 
Guichen. In the loft of thefe, his -brother-in-— 
law, Captain Watfon, of the Conqueror, the 
fhip on board which Admiral Sir Jothua Row- 
ley had his flag, was k led. He was firft 
lieutenant of the Loudon, commanded by the 
above officer, in her a€tion with the Scipion, of 
8c guns, on the 17th of Oétober, 1782, when 
the two fhips fell on board each other. On 
“this occafion the French line-of-battle fhip ran 
one of her lower-deck guns, witha confiderable 
elevation, into one @f the lower-deck ports of 
A. fhot from this gun pafied 
through ihree decks to the quarter-deck, 2 
plank of which was fhivered cloie to where 
Captain Burgets food. By the fplinters of the 
: wood the bones of bis foot were fractured, and 
this accident confined him for two years. “After 
the above aétion, Admiral Sir Jethua Rowley 
promoted him to the rank of maiier and com~ 
mander, and appointed-him to, the Vaughan 
flcop of war. He-was fent home with a convoy 
2 merchantmen, which he conduéted to Eng= 
land in perfe& fafety, notwithftanding his 
wound corfined him tu his bed. It, indeed, 
happened that two of the fhips were feparated 
from the fleet by violent gales of wind which it 
had te encounter on the pafiage. Thefe vefiels. 
after they had 
falicn into the enemy’s hands. It was no eafy 
tafk to do this, and give at the fame time the 
the conv oy. . During the 
Savage floop of war, and was ftationed on the 
couft of Scotland, where he conduéted himfel 
with fo much abilit Ys that he was made a bur- 
gcfs of Greenock aud Glaigow. The merchants 
there were not fetisfied with having befiowed 
en him this flattering teftimomy of the feme 
they entertained oj his feivices 5; for when the 
prefent war broke out, they offered a bouiity of . 
_ three guineas io cvery feaman who fhou!d enter. 
on board the fhip he. commanded. In the 
armament of 1759, he was promoted to the 
rank of pott-captain, and conmmanded the Cul- 
Joven, ,ftationed in the Channel fleet, and 
having Sir Thomas Rich’s flag hoified. He 
a cas ' ; : was. 
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