[70]. Whilst in command of the Growler brig, captured by French privateers, 21st Dec 1797.
[71]. Afterwards Sir Henry Martin, Bart., Comptroller of the Navy; died 1794. See N.R.S., vol. xxiv. p. viii.
[72]. Howe was ordered to hoist the union jack, and considered himself as ‘brevet’ admiral of the fleet.
[73]. Son of Samuel Faulknor, captain of the Victory when she was lost on the Casquets in 1744; uncle of Captain Robert Faulknor, the ‘Undaunted’; flag captain with Keppel in 1778. Died, admiral of the blue, 1795.
[74]. The reference is possibly to the retreat from Burgos in November 1812.
[75]. Many did deny this, while admitting that he was ‘a brave and meritorious officer.’
[76]. Billy Culmer is a familiar character in the gossiping memoirs of the old war, e.g. Greenwich Hospital, by the Old Sailor (M. H. Barker). From Gardner’s account of him, we may fairly believe that Barker’s anecdotes are also genuine. It is noted in the Barfleur’s pay-book, that he was born in Bridgwater, and was 35 in 1790. Of course, this is by no means conclusive evidence of the fact.
[77]. If we are to accept the statement that he was 35 in 1790, he was two years old in 1757. He may have been with Hood in the Romney in 1767–70.
[78]. The victualling yard, whose name was not inaptly transferred to the biscuit-grub.
[79]. Sc. squinting.