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Sir Charles Morice Pole, Biar Published by Asperne, at the Bible, Crown & Constitution, Cornhill, 1, June, 1805 THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR MAY 1805. SIR CHARLES-MORICE POLE, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, AND ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT FOR NEWARK. [WITH A PORTRAIT.] S Chairman of a Committee, on whofe meritorious labours the public attention is at prefent fo ftrongly fixed, it falls properly within the plan of our Magazine to collect and record fuch particulars of Sir Charles's life as we have reafon to believe to be authentic. This gallant Admiral is of the diftinguifhed family of Pole, of Shute, in Devonshire; being great grandfon of Sir John Pole, (the third Baronet,) and of Anne, youngest daughter of Sir William Morice, Knt., one of the Secretaries of State to Charles the Second. The father of Sir Charles was Reginald Pole, Eq. of Stoke Damarell, in the county of Devon, who married Anne, fecond daughter of John Francis Buller, Efq., of Morval, in the county of Cornwall. CHARLES-MORICE, the fubject of the prefent Memoir, was born at Stoke Damarell, Jan. 18, 1757. He was bred to the naval profeffion at the Royal Academy at Portfmouth, and firft went to fea with Sir Edward Vernon in the year 17731 He afterwards ferved in the East Indies with Sir Edward Hughes, by whom he was made Mafter and Commander into the Cormorant floop, in which he brought to England the account of the capture of Pondicherry, where he had the command of the Seamen employed on fhore. On the 22d of April 1779, he was made Poft, and for fome years commanded the Britannia in the Channel Fleet, as Vice-Admiral Darby's Captain. Being afterwards Commander of the Succefs frigate; while on bis paffage to Gibraltar, entrusted with the charge of an army tranfport, he met with the Santa Catalina Spanifh frigate, which, after a gallant action, furrendered to him; but in the moment of victory, a fuperior force appearing, he was com pelled to burn his prize, having previ oufly taken out the crew: in this inftance, from a confideration of the value of the tranfport to the besieged garrifon, facrificing without regret his perfonal intereft to his public duty; a courfe which he feems to have uniformly purfued. During the peace which commenced in 1783, he commanded the Crown guard-fhip; and, upon occafion of the Spanish Armament, was appointed to the Melampus, at that time the largest and most approved frigate in the Navy. While the difcuffions with the Spanish Government exifted, he was wholly emU u z ployed ployed off Breft, watching the motions of the French, which were ftrongly indicative of an intention to fulfil the fti pulations of the Family Compact: fuch being the counsel given to the unfortunate Louis the XVIth, to prevent the further progress of the Revolution; which, however, had then taken fuch deep root, that the attempt to equip a fleet at Breft failed; and the Spaniards, disappointed of a powerful ally, came into our terms in the well known negociations between Lord St. Helen's and Florida Blanca.-But to return to our fubject. Captain Pole was next appointed to command the Coloffus; in which fhip he accompanied Lord Hood to the Me. diterranean, and was prefent at the furrender of Toulon. He afterwards hoifted his flag as Rear-Admiral (to which rank he had been promoted in 1795) in the last-mentioned fhip, ferved in the Weft Indies as fecond in command, and had his fhare in many important tranfactions. On his return to England, he became First Captain of the Channel Fleet under Admiral Lord Bridport; and at no period was this great protective force in more able hands. He was afterwards appointed Governor and Commander in Chief at Newfoundland; but, on Lord Nelson's return from the North Sea, he was thought worthy to fill the place of that diftinguithed Officer; and his conduct in this command, at a very critical period, for our country, fully juftified the choice that had been made of him. It gave force to our propofitions for an accommodation with the Northern Powers, which taking place, Vice-Adiniral Pole was, as a fpontane ous mark of his Majesty's favour, created a Baronet of Great Britain, Aug. 18, 1801. During the fhort interval between that time and the conclufion of the Peace of Amiens, our Admiral had the command of a squadron off Cadiz. It has been the lot of but few Officers in his Majesty's Navy to pass through fuch a variety of fervice.We have only to add of Sir Charles-Morice Pole, that while the conftancy, inte grity, and ability, difplayed in his pubfic capacity demand the a plaufe of his country, the virtues of his private life, the urbinity of his manners, and the goodnets of his heart, may be held up as worthy of general imitation. SIR, JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ. As I am a conftant reader of the Eu. Ruffel Street, Bloomsbury, THE SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL. Anniversary, 1805. recent fpeeches in honour of the Founder of this fchool, have led me to reflect (in consequence of my having been prefent at that cele bration, 2d May, 1805,) on the probable good effects which might be produced by a well-written HISTORY of the school. Knight and Fortin t would furnish a fund of materials; but Jortin treats of our school only incidentally, though largely; and Knight's performance is too antiquated, in form and ftyle, to pleate a correct tafte, and far too fpiritless to roufe and animate in the degree it ought to do, the beft feelings and the moft generous affections of the reader. Let us confider what this ancient feminary would have to lay before us in it's details. Having arifen with the dawn of the Reformation; being co-eval almost with the art of printing, (perhaps the imme diate confequence of that wonderful invention;) and having been eminent ly auxiliary to the revival of letters, what fubject could create a greater variety of profound reflections than • Knight's Life of Colet, the Founder, Jortin's Life of Erafmus. this |