Extract From a Diary of Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The m.s. From which this Extract has been printed, was found, in his own hand writing, among the papers of my late father; attached to it being a note, also in his own handwriting, to the effect that it is a repro duction of a copy found at St. Helena, in 1824 or 25, among the effects of one who had held an official position as Admiral's Secretary or Captain's Clerk on board the Northumber land on her voyage to St. Helena, where he died, and who had no doubt made it as a matter of pardonable curiosity and satisfaction for himself; and it is now published in the belief that it's intrinsic interest, as closing a gap in the later career of the great soldier, will be deemed suflicient excuse for it's seeing the light.