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FATALITY that deprivation may be a disappointment to him. After my former attempts at caricaturing, I should be sorry to expose any one publicly, or remind those who, in their juvenile days, felt the process of the thrashing machine. FATALITy. Soon after I left Eton, I became assistant to my father. Of the many I recollect to have instructed near the same period, were five youths in the navy; one a lieutenant, the others, four midshipmen. The former, Lord Robert Manners, was killed on the 12th of April, when captain of the Resolution, in Rodney's engagement with De Grasse, Mr. Halliburton (Lord Moreton's brother), who, going on shore with the crew in the long boat, to Long Island, during the American War, was found the next morning with the others in a bog, frozen to death;-the Hon. Mr. Lumley (Lord Scarborough's brother), when captain of the Isis, lost his life engaging with Suffrein, after the gallant defence, the East Indiamen made at Port Prayer;-Young Falconer whom I had known when a child, in an action in the West Indies, captain of a frigate, who, whilst opposed to another of superior force, on the bowsprit, in the act of splicing thein together, received a mortal wound; -the fifth is now, the only one surviving, Lord Maryborough, then a midshipman. Lord Moreton (who was one of my cronies at Eton) told me that a monument was erected to the memory of his brother, in Long Tsland, and that in the beginning of the French revolution, when equality was the order of the day, some French sailors, who had landed there, seeing a coronet, with the other insignia, not only defaced them, but the inscription.-So much for liberty and equality 57