BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE WILLIAM BUDGE, ESQ

Summary

“Nought can his firmness shake, nothing reduce

His zeal, still active for the common weal;

Nor stormy tyrants, nor Corruption's tools—

To virtue so determined, public zeal,

And honour of such adamantine proof

As even Corruption, hopeless and o'er-aw'd,

Durst not have tempted.”

—Thomson.

[Concluded from page 16.]

IN concluding the former part of this memoir of Mr. Budge, we left him urging the eligibility of Falmouth harbour as a general naval establishment, experiencing opposition, and in the course of it, the opinion of Sir Richard Keats against his proposal. Another officer of celebrity, when outward-bound in a frigate, to take command on a foreign station, was forced to seek shelter in that port by contrary winds; he had the letter addressed, “to the Prime Minister and First Lord of the Admiralty” put into his hands, which, after having read, he is said to have expressed himself to the following effect:—

“That he was still of the same opinion as before; because, when he was in a ship of the line, and bound to the eastward, and the wind easterly, he put into the harbour until the wind should become fair; which when it did, and blew strong, he could not get out until it moderated; but it might do very well for frigates.”