OR, IMPARTIAL MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE YEAR 1660 TO THE PRESENT TIME; RAWN FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND DISPOSED IN A ΤΟ PHILIP STEPHENS, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE TOWN AND PORT OF SANDWICH, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. SIR, THE protection and patronage with which you have been pleased to honour the following sheets, are too valuable, too flattering to myfelf, to be concealed from the world; were you than you are, I' might proceed to recapitulate these more ferious obligations which bind me, în common with the reft of my countrymen, to respect and admire your character. lefs known and esteem were. BUT the general notoriety, Sir, of your public fervices makes fuch a detail unneceffary from any individual, while the uniform testimony A 3 |