! Younger. Ships' Names. Tonnage. SEASON, 1817-18. EAST INDIA SHIPS, With their Managing Owners, Commanders, Principal Officers, Surgeons, Pursers, Time of coming afloat, &c; Bomb, & China Buckinghamshire 1969 1 Dunira 1325 3 Castle Huntly 1200 Beng. & China London 1392 Princess Amelia 1200 Mad. & China Prince Regent Marchioness of Ely 952 Mad. & Beng. Henry Bonham T. Herb. Harris Step. Poyntz Thos. Baker Orwell........ Company's Ship Wm. Patterson R. Glasspoole W. R. Blakely Cabalva......... 1200 China 6Scaleby Castle.. 1249 7 Perseverance 11271 Astell....... 820 6 Phoenix..... 818 2 General Hewitt 804 5 Warren Hastings Henry Porcher... 465 Beng. & Mad. Beng. & Bomb. 4 Lady Lushington.. Robert Morris Amb. Rivers Rob. Simmons S. Jas. Lee Dav. Marshall Engraved by Thomson, from an original Painting in the Provest Lodge at Eton College, by S.Drummond Esq. ARA EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR JUNE, 1818. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JOHN REEVES, Esq. FOUNDER AND PROMOTER OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR PRESERVING LIBERTY AND (WITH À PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY J. THOMSON, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING IN THE PREVOST'S ROOM, ETON COLLEGE, BY S. DRUMMOND ESQ. A. R. A. [EROISM in the field is surrounded sounded, and all the banditti of Great HEROISM u blaze of glory, and Britain and Ireland were rallying toge most men are so liable to be dazzled by the splendor of military exploits, that not only the poet, but the biographer and historian, have always too fondly enlarged on the successes of the wartior, while the less brilliant, but more serviceable, exertious of the statesman are mentioned with sparing testimonies of applause. We often see the powers of geants employed in giving an artificial verdure to the blood-stained laurels of victory, and we hear the car of triumph rattle through the sounding periods, though its wheels are clogged with HUMAN GORE. But whatever praise may be due to the champion who risks his life in fighting the batties of his country, and of repelling the attacks of a foreign invader, the highest honours of patriotism, and the warmest tributes of public gratitude, ought certainly to be reserved for the man who, in the hour of internal alarm, and amidst the DARK BROODING of DOMESTIC TREASON, steps forward by his wisdom, his virtue, and his spirit, to save a whole people from the HORRORS of a CIVIL WAR. Such was the state of affairs in which the talents of Mr. REEVES, not long since, were so happily displayed. A ten pest was gathering over our heads which was likely to burst with irresistible fury. The FRENCH HORN of sedition had been ther at its blast. Anarchy and licentiousness proclaimed with loud boast the multitude of their adherents, while hypocrisy, ambition, and avarice, were secretly plotting how to secure the SPOILS of a PLUNDERED NATION. The loyal and the brave, though undaunted by Jacobin menaces, foresaw with agony the woUNDS they must be forced to inflict, in the bateful struggle; and Justice herself turned pale at the number of apprehended executious. At this crisis, the heaven-inspired counsels of a vigilant patriot averted all those calamities, and put a stop to the rising tumult, without shedding ONE DROP of BLOOD. He joined men of property and virtue in the bonds of indissoluble union; he inspired the peaceful and industrious with security and confidence; he restored deluded thousands to their allegiance and their duty; he quelled the turbulent; he intimidated the audacious; he confounded the designing; he made the dagger fall from the hand of the assassin; and he extinguished the torch which the incendiary had just lighted to involve the kingdom in flames. Can it then be deemed an useless or an uninteresting task to trace the outlines of this admirable character, and to present to the real lovers of their country so bright and so encou |