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ation of some seamen, and three companies of royal blues, who had been regularly trained for that duty, and dressed in an appropriate uniform.

The money received in consequence of an agreement on the 28th June, and the sum brought from and near Luxam, embarked on board the Narcissus, Captain Ross Donnelly, amounted to 1,086,208 dollars: there remained in the treasury 205,115 dollars.

The capitulation secured to the British army the honours of war, and to the merchants their property; an exchange of prisoners was also effected by it, the whole for the whole. The high and independent language in which the articles of the capitulation were couched, and the terms dictated by General Beresford to an officer at the head of myriads of people, did him infinite honour.

Sir Home was on board his ship when the city was retaken, and continued to blockade the river, without being able to render any assistance to the troops. On the arrival of a fresh force, October 12th, he recommenced offensive operations, and made an attempt upon Monte Video, without success. As affairs assumed a worse appearance, he left that station, and was superseded in his command by Sir Charles Sterling. His conduct was laid before a court-martial in March, 1807, where he made a most magnanimous defence, affirming that his crime was no more than that it had been his fate to reduce the capitals of two of the four great divisions of the world; alluding to Buenos Ayres and the Cape. The court, however, determined that his conduct was reprehensible in a British officer, and leading to a subversion of all military discipline, as well as subordination to government;" and he received, in consequence, a severe, but merited, reprimand.

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An expedition having been fitted out for the purpose of obtaining possession of the Danish navy, Sir Home was selected as captain of the fleet under Admiral Gambier, by whom, on the submission of the Danes, he was appointed to receive the Danish ships and vessels of war, with

the stores in the arsenal. In his official letter, Admiral Gam bier thus speaks of him: "I feel it my duty to make a particular acknowledgment of the aid I have derived from Sir Home Popham, captain of the fleet, whose prompt resources, and complete knowledge of his profession, especially of that branch which is connected with the operations of an army, qualify him in a particular manner for the arduous and various duties with which he has been charged."

On the 8th of January, 1808, Sir Home Popham and Sir John Stuart were presented with the elegant swords, voted to them by the corporation of London. They were first presented, at Merchant Taylors' Hall, with the freedom of that company; after which they proceeded to Guildhall, and were presented to the Lord Mayor. They were accompanied by Lord Gambier and Sir Edward Hamilton.

In 1809, Sir Home accompanied the expedition that had been fitted for the occupation of Flushing, and the destruction of the French ships of war, arsenals, and dock-yards, in the Scheldt. The command of the army was entrusted to the Earl of Chatham, and the naval part of the expedition to Sir Richard Strachan. On the 28th and 29th July the armament sailed in two divisions. The Rear-Admiral, aware of Sir Home's local knowledge of the insular navigation, entrusted him to lead the fleet into the Rompoot, where they were all anchored in security. The army being landed, and the bombs and gun-vessels directed to proceed up the Veere Gat; Sir Home (who, at the request of Lord Chatham, had remained on shore with his Lordship) received permission from Sir Richard to employ the bombs, &c. as the service might require. He accordingly began on the morning of the 31st July to cannonade Camvere, which had been summoned, but held out. The fire of the gun-boats was exceedingly well directed, and did much damage to the town. Three of the gun-boats were sunk. In the afternoon it blew fresh, and as the strength of the tide prevented the bombs from acting, the flotilla fell back, preserving a menacing position.

At night, some rockets being thrown, from the dyke on

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shore, at the nearest battery of Camvere, the town surrendered. After the performance of this service, Sir Home was dispatched with several sloops, brigs, and a rocket-ship, together with a light flotilla, up the West Scheldt; to sound and buoy the channels of that river, to enable the larger ships to advance, for the purpose of putting into execution the ulterior objects of the expedition; which service he executed with his usual judgment and correctness, driving the enemy above Lillo, where their ships and gun-brigs had taken up a strong position. On the 15th August Flushing surrendered, after a severe bombardment. In the meantime a very numerous French army assembled in the neighbourhood of Antwerp; the forts in the Scheldt were well manned; and every preparation was made for opposing the passage of both the army and the navy. Preparations were also made for conveying the ships so high up the river as to be beyond the reach of either naval or military operations, in case of a successful attempt to force a passage.

All idea of pushing up the Scheldt being abandoned, Lord Chatham, with the greater part of the troops, returned to England on the 14th of September. The island of Walcheren was evacuated on the 23d of December following.

During the Peninsula war, Sir Home Popham commanded the Venerable of 74 guns, and was actively employed on the north-west coast of Spain, harassing the French forces. When Lord Moira went out as Governor-General of Bengal, Sir Home was appointed to convey him to India, in the Stirling Castle of 74 guns. He was subsequently nominated a Colonel of Marines.

Sir Home was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the White on the 4th of June, 1814, and shortly afterwards hoisted his flag as Commander-in-chief, in the River Thames. In 1819, the Rear-Admiral accepted the command on the Jamaica station, and proceeded thither in the Sybille frigate, commanded by his eldest son, Captain William Popham. He was promoted to rank of Rear-Admiral of the Red on 12th August, 1819.

During Sir Home Popham's stay at Jamaica, he lost a son, aged 17 or 18, and his second daughter: they fell victims to the climate.

From this period the services of Sir Home Popham have been less before the public, or rather, the demolition of the naval power of France afforded no opportunity for their display. He devoted himself to other pursuits, particularly an improved telegraph, constructed, in 1815, along the coast, from Bridport to the Land's End in Cornwall. Subsequently, he accepted the command of the West India station, where he vainly attempted to reconcile Christophe, King of Hayti and Boyer, and whence he returned in 1820, weakened in his constitution, and mourning the loss of a daughter, whom he did not long survive. He closed a life, as brilliant as it was serviceable, at Cheltenham on the 11th of September. His will was proved in the Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons, September 23d; it was dated on the 18th of July, 1809, when he was Captain of the Venerable, and about to proceed on a particular service; which he states himself to have arranged. The whole property is left, for life, to Lady Popham, and at her death, to be equally divided among their children. The executors having renounced their right, a grant of administration was made to her Ladyship. The personal property was sworn under 18,000l.

His Works were as follow:

1. Concise Statement of Facts relative to the Treatment experienced by him since his Return from the Red Sea; 8vo., 1805.

2. A Description of Prince of Wales' Island; 8vo. 1805. 3. Rules and Regulations to be observed in His Majesty's Ships; 4to. 1805.

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No. IV.

THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF SHEFFIELD,

BARON OF DUnamore, and BARON OF ROSCOMMON,
IN IRELAND.

Quem te Deus esse jussit.

JOHN BAKER HOLROYD, Earl of Sheffield, the friend and

associate of Gibbon, and the editor of an admirable edition of his miscellaneous works, was the second son of Isaac Holroyd, Esq., by Dorothea, youngest daughter of Daniel Butler, Esq. of Penn, in the county of Bucks.

The family of the Holroyds were originally settled in Yorkshire, where it flourished as early as the reign of Edward I. The name is very common on the borders of Lancashire, and has given local appellations to one or two small towns in that county. By his mother's side, the subject of this memoir inherited a considerable fortune; and, upon her decease in 1777, he added her maiden name of Baker to his own patronymic.

Mr. Holroyd, after the usual preliminary education, entered the army, and obtained the command of a troop of light horse, called the Royal Foresters, under the Marquis of Granby, as early as 1760. The short duration of the war precluded all opportunity of promotion; consequently Mr. Holroyd obtained no higher rank than that of captain. On the ratification of peace, three years afterwards, he passed over to the continent, and travelled through the principal states in Europe. It was during this absence from England, that he commenced an acquaintance, at Lausanne, with the celebrated Historian of the Roman Empire, who thus alludes

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