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Is this my welcome home ? ?Southerns. Those who are deservedly loud in their commendations of the gallantry displayed by British seamen during the last war, have generally been willing to admit that those supporters of the national flag whom Ireland sent to man our fleets, did not tread the decks like children. We shall, however, content ourselves Mith referring our readers who may be curious on the subject, to the chronicle of Mr. James, or any other naval Tacitus of the day, for examples of the truth of the observation, as we wish not to encumber our slender narrative with any unnecessary historical detail. Whether Mr. James records the exploits of a certain Duke Dorgan, a young sailor, from the shores of Kerry, or no, I am not aware; but it is not likely that many names have been eurolled in his pages more distinguished by a modest valour (such as contents itself with doing all for duty, and nothing for vanity), than that of the person we have just mentioned. The result of his professional exertions, and of a common-rate prudence (a rare naval virtue in the present day, and still more so at the time we speak of) was, the fortunate arrival of the young man on his native ehores with a character unspotted by any act of insubordination or servility, and a quantity of prize-money sufficient(and more than sufficient) to supply the
chair days of his life, with every comfort that necessity suggested, and every luxury to which his limited experience in that way might induce him to aspire. There were circumstances, however, in his early lite, which, independent of any view- to mere personal gratification, made him feel happy in his competence.
You are in the right, says the author of those well- known letters published in the name of Pope Ganganelli,
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