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Biographical Sketch Of Admiral Lord Duncan.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ADMIRAL LORD DUNCAN .
A DMIRAL Duncan has been through life distinguished by un-¦ ^ -k- assuming-and unobtrusive simplicity of manners . With a most elegant person , he ever had a manly mind . He is full six feet three inches high , but with a character of muscular strength and proportion that set off the height . He is easy in his carriage , erect , and it is scarcely possible for the mind to conceive a person more naturallgraceful than Admiral Duncan . He is the Laird of Ltindiein
y , Perthshire - , his paternal estate is about 500 I . a-year . He married the half niece of Mr . Dundas , and he has a daughter , a most beautiful and accomplished young lady , with all her father ' s simplicity of manners ; and though she is perhaps too tall for fashionable beauty , yet her shape and figure are perfect . Admiral Duncan served in an excellent school . He was the early
friend ofthe late Lord Keppel , and when he was made an Admiral , he appointed Adam Duncan as his Captain . He was with him at the Havannah . He was afterwards a member of his court-martial . He has chosen his officers out of the same school . His Captain , Mr . ( now SirG . ) Fairfax , was first Lieutenant of the Victory on the 27 th
of July . Admiral Duncan was made a post Captain so long ago as the year 1761 , he was made a Rear-Admiral in 17 S 7 , Vice-Admiral in 1793 , and Admiral of the Blue in 1795 . He is 68 years old , but very athletic . He never achieved any very brilliant object before . This , however , detrafts nothing from his name . It has been the course of his service rather to be useful than conspicuous . But his merits have always been truly appreciated bthe judges of the service-and no
y , man has enjoyed through life a more stable reputation in public , or a more amiable charafter in private life . The promptitude and alacrity with which he carried his fleet to sea;—the skill with which he seized on the propermoment of attack ; —the bravery and management of the aftion , though splendid , are his least titles to our praise . The patience and constancy with which
he maintained his difficult but painful station during so many boisterous months , and still more , the gallantry with which , during the critical period ofthe mutiny , he kept his post in the blockade of the enemy with only three ships , when he was abandoned by all the rest of ' his squadron , are-proofs of heroism , zeal , and virtue , which will be lontr . remembered with gratitude by his country .
Intelligence of this victory had no sooner been communicated to his Majesty than he determined on conferring a mark of honour on the gallant Admiral , which he accordingly did , by creating him a Baron and Viscount of Great Britain , by the title of ViscountDuncan of Camperdown , and of Lundie , in Perthshire , This dignity also extends to the heirs male of his body , lawfully begotten . The Admiral's ship tlie Venerable ' s flag halliards were shot away more than once in . 'h ; Jan .- aftion ; and a young lad , who was ordered to hoist s-tit .-ther real ' y nailed the flag to the stair , declaring it should ' not come dowa , againbut with the most , —An instance of courage truly British
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Biographical Sketch Of Admiral Lord Duncan.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ADMIRAL LORD DUNCAN .
A DMIRAL Duncan has been through life distinguished by un-¦ ^ -k- assuming-and unobtrusive simplicity of manners . With a most elegant person , he ever had a manly mind . He is full six feet three inches high , but with a character of muscular strength and proportion that set off the height . He is easy in his carriage , erect , and it is scarcely possible for the mind to conceive a person more naturallgraceful than Admiral Duncan . He is the Laird of Ltindiein
y , Perthshire - , his paternal estate is about 500 I . a-year . He married the half niece of Mr . Dundas , and he has a daughter , a most beautiful and accomplished young lady , with all her father ' s simplicity of manners ; and though she is perhaps too tall for fashionable beauty , yet her shape and figure are perfect . Admiral Duncan served in an excellent school . He was the early
friend ofthe late Lord Keppel , and when he was made an Admiral , he appointed Adam Duncan as his Captain . He was with him at the Havannah . He was afterwards a member of his court-martial . He has chosen his officers out of the same school . His Captain , Mr . ( now SirG . ) Fairfax , was first Lieutenant of the Victory on the 27 th
of July . Admiral Duncan was made a post Captain so long ago as the year 1761 , he was made a Rear-Admiral in 17 S 7 , Vice-Admiral in 1793 , and Admiral of the Blue in 1795 . He is 68 years old , but very athletic . He never achieved any very brilliant object before . This , however , detrafts nothing from his name . It has been the course of his service rather to be useful than conspicuous . But his merits have always been truly appreciated bthe judges of the service-and no
y , man has enjoyed through life a more stable reputation in public , or a more amiable charafter in private life . The promptitude and alacrity with which he carried his fleet to sea;—the skill with which he seized on the propermoment of attack ; —the bravery and management of the aftion , though splendid , are his least titles to our praise . The patience and constancy with which
he maintained his difficult but painful station during so many boisterous months , and still more , the gallantry with which , during the critical period ofthe mutiny , he kept his post in the blockade of the enemy with only three ships , when he was abandoned by all the rest of ' his squadron , are-proofs of heroism , zeal , and virtue , which will be lontr . remembered with gratitude by his country .
Intelligence of this victory had no sooner been communicated to his Majesty than he determined on conferring a mark of honour on the gallant Admiral , which he accordingly did , by creating him a Baron and Viscount of Great Britain , by the title of ViscountDuncan of Camperdown , and of Lundie , in Perthshire , This dignity also extends to the heirs male of his body , lawfully begotten . The Admiral's ship tlie Venerable ' s flag halliards were shot away more than once in . 'h ; Jan .- aftion ; and a young lad , who was ordered to hoist s-tit .-ther real ' y nailed the flag to the stair , declaring it should ' not come dowa , againbut with the most , —An instance of courage truly British