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Excerpt from An Autobiographical Sketch Mour, ) was born on the 3oth day of April, 1787, at p. M., and was baptized at St, George's, in-thei-east, London. My mother died in 1795 aged 30 years, deeply lamented., As she was a sister of the late Elizabeth Portlock, the wife of Capt. Nathanielport-lock, R. N., I was committed to their care for a short time, and sent to school at Gosport. On the loth of October, 1796, I entered the Royal Navy as a volunteer of the first class, on board the Arrow, Sloop of War, commanded by my uncle, in which ship we lay at Portsmouth during the mutiny. To'this excel lent man I was greatly indebted, as hisgood advice saved me from many errors. He died a Captain, in Greenwich Hospital, in 1818. On the 17th day of March, 1800, I joined the Ceres Troop Ship, and at.cork we embarked 'the 3181: Regiment, who then wore' Powder and Pigtails. Arrived at Gibralter we disembarked the 3ist Regiment, and embarked the 90th, when aftersome stay in the Harbours of Malta and Port Mahon, in the Island of Minorca, the large ex pedition collected there proceeded to Marmoricc Bay in Asia, one of the finest harbours 'in the world. After remaining there a long time, the whole of the fleet, with the Transports, sailed for Aboukir Bay, in Egypt. At the landing of the Troops under Aboukir Castle, effected under a very heavy fire, many boats were sunk and men killed or Wounded. For months after this I was Constantly employed in a boat, night and day, moving troops, prisoners, luggage, provisions and the wounded; rough work this, sleeping 1n' an open boat, often obliged to eat raw'salt beef and po1k. Egypt taken from the French, we em barked a detachment of the 42nd Highlanders, badly affected With Ophthalmia, and conveyed them to' England; our, Captain, Charles jon'es, caught this disease, went to sick quarters, and lost an eye. After a Short stay we again em barked troops and sailed for jamaica. On this station we lost the second Lieutenant, three midshipmen and three of the crew. I was the only mid who returned to England. The Ceres was then paid off. After a short time on shore Ijoined the William, Store Ship, going out to Malta. There I Was drafted into the Agincourt of 64 guns, Captain Sir Thomas Briggs. Again visiting Alexahdria, in Egypt, we returned to Malta and Sailed -to join th'e'fleet under Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
