we find Lieutenant Chads again publicly expressing himself on this mournful subject, as follows: – “Standing before this honorable court, to answer for the loss and capture by the enemy, of H.M. late ship Java, I cannot but feel myself deeply impressed at the great responsibility that attaches to me, which cannot but affect my mind with the deepest anxiety and solicitude, increased to distress by the untimely fate, and to me the irreparable loss, of my ever-to-be-lamented commander. In this situation. Sirs, I could not bear up, did I not feel the cheering though still anxious hope that I shall, with the surviving officers and ship’s company, be considered by this honorable court, as having made every effort within the power of human exertion to defend and save His Majesty’s ship. I feel also great consolation in believing, that in the detail of the action, which I shall lay before this honorable court, the skill and determined bravery of my beloved captain, will be most conspicuous, and that in this last action of his life, although success has not crowned his exertions, his character will be unsullied and his memory honored and revered.” The following lines on Captain Lambert were written by George Wrattislaw, Esq. of Magdalen College, Oxford, in May, 1813:–
“A gentle spirit, yet a dauntless heart,
“Where worth and valor claim’d an equal part;
“In whom the hero, friend, and husband shone
“And all the virtues mingled into one;
“Whose every action spoke an honest zeal,
“And foremost in his thoughts his country’s weal;
“Such once was Lambert: – once the good and brave,
“Now sunk, alas I in glory’s honor’d grave;
“While the lone Mourner, in her widow’d state,
“Bewails the sad severity of fate;
“And the rough seaman wets his manly eye,
“Where, cold in death, the hero’s ashes lie;
“Or, as he sighing, quits the fatal shore,
“Turns his last ling’ring look to ‘Salvador.’”
The subject of the foregoing sketch left four brothers, all of whom are now alive, and in His Majesty’s service, viz. –
