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d wrinkled front," yet the public mind is by no means impreffed with a con viction that hoftilities are at a distance. Should this apprehenfion be verified, the nation has the encouraging certainty of having for its defenders men who have already fignalifed themfelves for conduct and courage, on whom it may confidently rely, and whofe exploits already performed may be confidered as the earnett of future victories, fhould contest be again found neceffary.

HENRY TROLLOPE is of a diftinguished ancient Baronet's family, and being destined for the naval profeffion, paffed through the early stages of it in a manner which thowed him worthy of the honours he has fince acquired. On the 4th of July 1781 he was made a Polt Captain.

In July 1796, being Commander of the Glatton, of 54 guns, one of the Fat Indiamen purchased by Government, he failed from Yarmouth Roads to join the fquadron croiting off the Texel, under the command of Captain Savage. At one in the afternoon of the 15th, being then four or five leagues from Helvoet, he discovered a fquadron of ships of war, which, on his nearer approach, he perceived to confiit of fix large frigates, a brig, and a cutter. One of thefe appeared to mount so guns, two 36, and the other three 28 guns each. By the manner in which they manoeuvred, and not anfwering the private figual, Captain

Trollope was convinced they were

vaft fuperiority, he inftantly cleared for action, and refolutely bore down to attack them. At ten P. M. having got clofe alongfide of the third ship of the enemy's line, he hailed her, and, finding it to be a French fquadron, defired her Commander to ftrike his colours, which was returned with a broadfide. A fiart action now commenced within twenty yards, and foon became general; the two headmolt fhips tacked, and one placing herfeif alongfide to windward, and the other on the bow, the hips aftern engaged the Glatton on the lee quarter and ftern. In this fituation a most furions cannonade was kept up, the Glatton engaging on both fides, fo near, that her yard arms were nearly touching thofe of the enemy. In twenty minutes, from the fuperior and heavy fire of the Glatton, the enemy began to theer off; and from the evident marks of confufion and diforder which appeared on board their hips, could Captain Trollope have pursued them, his gallantry would have been rewarded by a moft complete victory. In attempting to wear after them, he found his mats, rigging, and fails, fo much wounded and cut to pieces, that all efforts were ineffectual.

At feven o'clock the next morning, by the activity and exertions of his officers and men, the ship was in a state to carry fail and renew the action: the enemy were at this time feen going off fteering for Flufhing. Captain Trollope continued to follow them till nine Fffa

o'clock,

o'clock,

when they were within three leagues of the above port, without any hopes of being joined by any of his Majefty's cruifers to affift him, and the wind blowing fresh on the fhore, he judged it most prudent, in the difabled ftate of his fhip, to haul off, and return to Yarmouth to refit. In this unequal conflict the Glatton had not a man killed; but Captain Strangeways, of the Marines, foon after died of his wounds.

For this gallant action the merchants of London prefented Captain Trollope with a piece of plate of the value of 100 guineas.

In October 1797, Captain Trollope, with a fquadron confifting of three hips, the Ruffel, Adamant, and Beaulien frigate, was left to watch the motions of the Dutch fleet, and on its failing kept in fight of it until it was

met by Admiral Duncan. This fervice of Captain Trollope is thus acknowledged by his Commander: "Captain Trollope's exertions and active good conduct, in keeping fight of the enemy's fleet until I came up, have been truly meritorious, and I truft will meet a juft reward." Captain Trollope bore a part in this distinguished victory of the 11th of October, a day which will be remembered with pleasure by Britons, and regretted by our enemies.

On the 30th of October his Majesty failed from Greenwich to return thanks to the Fleet for their extraordinary conduct and bravery. On this occafion the yacht was fteered by Captain Trollope, who was created a Knight Banneret. Since that period he has been advanced to be a Rear-Admiral of the White,

THERE is fomething in the death of

a good man which the Arbeift muft wonder at and admire; fuch a one dying cool and collected, trusting and believing at a moment when the truth is fought with eagernefs, and prejudice forfaken with difguft, is a confirmation of the existence of an immortality, not to be refifted. At the awful hour when vanities retreat, and right and wrong open with full conviction on the mind, it is a pure ray of heavenly intelligence that lights the foul, like the Star of Bethlehem, to that point which the anxious and departing fpirit feeks with trembling and fear, an Hereafter.

When we reflect on what a very little longer time we have to live, and that, measure it to its most probable extremity, it will fcarcely arrive to forty or fifty years, it becomes us to confider in time a fubject which will, in fpite of all oppofition, force itfelf upon the mind when we are about to part with life; for, however easily the Modern Philofopher may perfuade himself that we have no proof of an immortality, yet, when his mind shall be ftripped of all the vanity of argument, he will acknowledge an internal conviction paramount to any other

demonftration, infeparable from the nature of existence, and à priori to the formation of ideas.

But the true Philofopher needs not this laft strong beam of internal light to awaken his mind to truth; every cir cumftance and event of life, from infancy unto the hour of death, will athf his conjectures, and confirm his belief in an Hereafter his memory will reprefent to him, that truth has been ever the fame; and hiftory will prove certain affents and diffents of mankind, throughout all ages, too conftant to be merely prejudices, or the effects of habit or education.

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There are things that no prejudice can ever reconcile, or custom make familiar, with man; or even law have power to enforce fuch are crimes that hock nature. Offer power or riches to the greater part of mankind to commit cool and deliberate murder, if we know any thing of the human heart, we must declare that very few would confent to the perpetration of it, and that from an innate horror of the crime.

Mankind appear, therefore, to have general aflents and diffents from nature -a predifpofition in favour of truth and virtue, for their general happiness.

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