THE European Magazine, For AUGUST 1795. [Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of Capt. ROBERT FAULKNOR. And, 2. A VIEW of CROYLAND BRIDGE. CONTAINING Page are added, Obfervations during a Tour Page 98 Sugar." By Gilbert Francklyn, Efq. 103 Dodd's Short Hiftorical Account of the greater Part of the Principal Canals in the known World; with fome Reflections upon the general Utility of Canals. The Engineering Plagiarist, or Dodd from Philips, expofed, 106 Moore's View of the Caufes and Progrefs of the French Revolution [concluded], 107 Droffiana. Number LXXI Anecdotes of illuftrious and extraordinary Perfons, perhaps not generally known [continued]; including, Martin LutherBishop Gibfon-General Dumourier, 110 Letters relative to Captain Cook, 113 Poetry including, An Epiftle from the Rev. Mr. Waller in Town to the Rev. Mr.Widdit in the Country-An Elegy. To Emma in the Country-Ode to Love Tranflations from the Greek, of the Fifth and Seventh Idyllia of Mofchus-An Ancient Catch. From a MS in the time of Elizabeth, in the British Mufeum. (Vespasian, A. 25),114 State Papers Abstract of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America-Official Copy of the Treaty between the King of Spain and Republic of France, Journal of the Proceedings of the Fifth Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain; including His Majesty's Speech on closing the Seffion, 121 Forcign Intelligence, from the London Gazettes, &c. &c. Domestic Intelligence, Marriages, Monthly Obituary, 117 129 140 741 ib. LONDON: Printed for J. SEWELL, Cornhill, and J. DE BRETT, Piccadilly. Vol. XXVIII, AUGUST 1795. L ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter on Pope's Homer in our next. The Packet from Wales has not arrived. The Warning from an Expofer of Villany is more proper for a Newspaper: We have fent it to the Whitehall Evening Post. By a mistake of the Engraver, the Name of Captain FAULKNOR is mif- fpelt FAULKNER. ́ERRATA. P. 94. 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Wales 103 052 0158 4127 0100 96 000 0156 5100 000 o THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW; For AUGUST 1795. AN ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN ROBERT FAULKNOR. (WITH A PORTRAIT.) THE memory of the brave fhould never perish; but on the contrary their renown fhould be perpetuated by every means which can be fuggefted tothe gratitude of the nation. Already has the Legislature of this country directed a monument in the new Temple of Worthies, St. Paul's, to celebrate a hero, whofe gallantry has not been outdone by the oldeft Commanders, tho' his race of glory was terminated when the expectations of the world looked with eagerness for fome great benefit from his exertions. Captain ROBERT FAULKNOK is of a family whofe fervices to their country, on their country's proper element, the fea, have been long known and acknowledged. He was the eldest fon of Captain Robert Faulknor, a namie rendered eminently great by the capture of the Courageux by the Bellona at Dejour, in the war of 1755. He died in the year 1769. His grandfather, Captain Samuel Faulknor, loft his life in the Victory in the year 1744. Our Commander was born about the year 1752, and received the first rudiments of his naval education at the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, where he was placed by the late Earl of Sandwich. Having ferved his regular time at that Seminary of mathematical instruction, he segan his naval career under the aufpices of the Hon. William, now Ad • See Smollet's History of Eng ↑ See Vol. XXV. p. 320. miral, Cornwallis, who then commanded the Ifis, and afterwards the Lion, with whom he continued until he was, on 20th Dec. 1780, made a Lieutenant, ferving in that capacity under that truly great and amiable Officer the Hon. Admiral Barrington. His fervices, as a fubordinate Officer, were diftinguished by unfullied virtue, due obedience to the command of his fuperior Officers, and firm and undaunted courage. One of the latest and most brilliant actions performed by him, antecedent to nis fall, was at Martinico, in the Zebra floop of war, under the command of Sir John Jervis; which gallant action was amply detailed in the Gazette + of the period, from which we confider it incumbent on us to extract the follow ing paffage: "This combination fuc ceeded in every part, except the entrance of the Aña, which failed for the want of precifion in the antient Lieutenant of the port, Monf. de Tourilles, who had undertaken to pilot the Afia, Captain Faulk nor obferving that fhip baffled in her attempts, and the Zebra having been under a fhower of grape-fhot for a great length of time, (which he, his Officers, and fhip's com pany food with a firmness not to be deferibed) he determined to undertake the fervice alone, and he executed it with a matchlefs intrepidity and conduct, running the Zebra close to the wall of the |