buried in the same grave, in the burying-ground of Chelsea Hospital, on the 2d of August. Mr. Heriot had two daughters. The younger was residing with her husband at Trinidad; but intelligence of her death, on the 30th of June, 1833, arrived a few days after the decease of her parents. Mr. Heriot was a man of inflexible integrity; a kind and affectionate husband and father; an active and sincere friend. He was warm and zealous in his political principles and attachments; and crowned a life of early vicissitude and early struggle with an old age of private contentment and public respect. Among the papers of Mr. Heriot are several memorandum and commonplace books, containing original anecdotes, of which the following may not be considered unamusing specimens. "One day, at a large dinner party, at which his late Majesty, then Prince of Wales, was present, a gentleman sitting next to Dr. Mosely, the physician of Chelsea Hospital, to whom he was a perfect stranger, abruptly asked the Doctor what wine he thought best for general drinking. 'Sir,' said Mosely, very gravely, in my house, port; but in yours, claret.' The Prince, who overheard the conversation, applauded the reply, and enjoyed it vastly." "Sir Samuel Hulse, walking in the Little Park, at Windsor, with George III., pointed to some fine ricks of hay, and observed to the King that it was excellent for his Majesty's hunters, being of a very superior quality; and that his Majesty had a good stock of it. 'Yes,' said the King, and to sell too but not to the Master of the Horse; his is such bad pay!'" - "Admiral Lord Viscount Keith died lately at his seat in Scotland. He was writing letters after breakfast, and had written one to his brother-in-law, William Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court at Edinburgh, which he had enclosed in a frank, but not sealed, as he intended to add a letter to his daughter. While writing the latter, however, his Lordship dropped down dead in a fit of apoplexy. It was necessary to announce this event to Mr. Adam; and the person who did so put his letter into the cover which was found on the table; and thus, to save sixpence, the deceased nobleman was made to frank an account of his own death!" "A curious circumstance occurred a day or two ago in the Royal Military Asylum. The Rev. Mr. Clarke, the Chaplain, had a catalogue of the exhibition of the Royal Academy, which he had lent to the Adjutant, Captain Lugard. Mr. Lawrence, the Assistant Surgeon, intending to go to the exhibition, sent to borrow Mr. Clarke's catalogue. Mr. Clarke, who was much occupied at the time, hastily wrote upon a slip of paper, 'Let Mr. L. have Exhib. Cat.' Captain and Mrs. Lugard were both from home; and Miss Lugard, knowing nothing of the catalogue, thought Mr. Lawrence wanted one of their cats. A kitten of theirs had died a few days before, which Miss Lugard much regretted; but she had the old cat caught and put into a bag, and sent to Mr. Lawrence. That gentleman's astonishment may be conceived when his servant brought him a bag with a cat in it." 52 No. IV. VICE-ADMIRAL THOMAS BOYS. THE late Admiral Boys was descended from an ancient family, formerly of Bonnington, in Kent, and described by Philipott, in his Villare Cantianum (page 169.), as "the numerous and knightly family of Bois." He was grandson of Commodore Boys, Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, whose remarkable and providential escape from the Luxborough galley, when that vessel was destroyed by fire, A. D. 1727, is recorded in a printed narrative of the transaction (folio, London, 1787), and in a series of well-executed paintings, preserved in the above institution. Admiral Boys was born on the 3d of October, 1763, and was the second son of William Boys, Esq., of Sandwich, surgeon, author of the Collections for a History of Sandwich, in two vols, 4to, a work well known to antiquaries, and highly prized by them. His first voyage (before he was entered as a midshipman) was in 1777, in the Speedwell, with Captain J. Harvey, who afterwards died of his wounds received in the action of the 1st June. Lady Harvey, the wife of Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, K. B., the Captain's brother, was Mr. Boys's aunt; and a daughter of Sir Henry was married, in 1792, to her cousin Captain William Henry Boys, of the Royal Marines, the half brother to the subject of our present memoir. He next served in the Vigilant, from 1778 to 1780; under Captains R. Kingsmith, Sir Digby Dent, and Sir George Home, in the Channel and West Indies. From 1780 to April, 1782, he was with Captain Henry Harvey, then commanding the Convert at the Leeward Islands; the summer of that year was spent at Jamaica, in the Formidable, under Captain Vashon, and in the autumn he returned to England in the Montague, Captain George Bowen, both which ships bore the flag of Admiral Sir G. B. Rodney. In December of the same year, Captain H. Harvey again took him out as Master's Mate in the Cleopatra, employed in the Channel; in August, 1783, he removed to the Assistance, Captain Bentinck, bearing the flag of Commodore Sir C. Douglas, at Halifax; where he received the commission of Lieutenant in the Bonetta, Captain R. G. Keates, in which he returned to England in the autumn of the same year. From that date Lieutenant Boys remained unemployed until April, 1786, when he again joined Captain Henry Harvey in the Rose, employed on the Newfoundland station until the close of 1788. In 1790 he was appointed to the Princess Royal, Captain Holloway, the flag-ship of Admiral Hotham in the Channel, from which he was discharged in September, 1791. In December, 1792, he joined the same commanders in the Britannia, in which he was First Lieutenant at the period of Admiral Hotham's action with the French fleet off Genoa, March 14. 1795. In consequence, after acting for some time as Captain of the Censeur, one of the prizes on that occasion, he was promoted to La Flèche 18, with the rank of Commander. He shortly after witnessed a partial engagement with the French fleet off Toulon, when L'Alcide, one of their seventy-fours, was burnt, but a general action was prevented by adverse winds. The following graphic description of this "grand sight" is extracted from a letter to his father: : "You will have heard of our late falling in with and pursuit of the French fleet: had they sought us and attacked us before we had been joined by the long-delayed reinforcement, matters might have turned out differently; but they waited until we had joined, and then, I fancy, not knowing our strength, came over close into Fiorenza Bay, where the whole of our fleet was lying. The sea-breeze, which at this season generally sets in during the day-time, prevented our immediately pursuing them, but in the evening we put to sea. We saw nothing of them the next day, when it was my good fortune to speak a Ragusan vessel, not above sixteen hours from Toulon, which had passed through the enemy's fleet, and gave us exact intelligence of their number and situation. The next morning, after a squally, blowing night, our fleet at daylight found itself to windward of the enemy, and between them and Toulon, with the wind at N. W. After arranging our fleet, the Admiral wore and stood towards them, at first forming the line; but seeing their inferiority, and desire to get off, he made signal for a general chase. About ten there appeared the greatest probability of bringing them to a 'general action, they lying in disorder, almost becalmed, and our fleet going down on them with a fresh breeze from the N.W. But, on our van getting nearly up with them, we, in our turn, were becalmed; and they, getting a light wind from the eastward, drew out in some order, and crowded sail inshore. At length, the breeze reaching our ships, our van closed up with their rear. The Victory and Culloden behaved nobly, and one of their seventy-fours, L'Alcide, soon struck. Our van were still gaining on the enemy, and became much separated from the heavy ships in our rear, when, unfortunately the captured ship took fire: this occasioned some confusion in our centre and rear, who were close to her; and, several of our ships being obliged to tack to keep clear of her, the separation between our van and the body of the fleet was much increased. At this time the Admiral thought it necessary to make a signal to discontinue the engagement. Our loss was small, considering how warmly our van was engaged; about ten killed and thirty-six wounded in all. The French made a fair run of it, and did not fight so obstinately as on the 14th of March. forty killed and wounded before she struck. About 300 were burnt or drowned, and about 290 saved. The Alcide had about "This is the first action I ever had an opportunity of seeing at a distance. It was a grand sight; the one fleet running, and the other gaining on them, and engaging warmly as they arrived up: the Alcide burning fiercely in the middle |