pson.
" Henry Smith.
Master, Stephen Vale.
Surgeon, Barry O'Meara.
Assistant-Surgeon, A. Milne.
" E. Graebke.
Chaplain, J. W. Wynne.
Purser, George Jackson.

[Footnote 15: "Our new first lieutenant, Mr Andrew Mott, was
the best officer I ever saw in charge of a quarter-deck. I
often wondered when that man slept, eat, or dressed himself,
for he was hardly ever missed from deck, was always fresh and
vigorous, and his dress and appearance would, at any time,
have done honour to the queen's drawing-room. Maitland was,
withal, rather a little easy-going, and it occurred to me
that, knowing his defect in this way, he contrived always to
get a tolerable tartar of a first lieutenant, so that between
the captain's good nature and the lieutenant's severity,
which he occasionally checked and tempered when he thought
the lieutenant was likely to exceed bounds, the ship was kept
in capital discipline."--Home's _Memoirs_, p. 209.]

II.

Letter from EPHRAIM GRAEBKE, assistant-surgeon on board H.M.S.
Bellerophon, to his mother, giving an account of Napoleon's surrender
(British Museum, Additional MSS. 34,710, f. 81).

H.M.S. Bellerophon, Plymouth Sound,
Tuesday, July 30, 1815.

MY DEAR MOTHER,

You will be surprised at not hearing from me, and knowing the
Bellerophon's arrival in England, but when I tell you no private
letters were allowed to leave the ship before to-day, that will cease.
It's unnecessary to say that we have got Buonaparte and suite on
board, as it was known in England previous to our arrival, which took
place on the 24th instant in Torbay. The circumstances which led to
his surrender were his defeats in all points, and was it not for the
strict blockade we kept up would [_sic_] have escaped to America. We
heard of his being on board the French frigate Saale off Rochfort,
from which moment we watched his movements if possible more closely
than before. On the morning of the 14th instant, observing a schooner
bearing a flag of truce on board standing towards us, we hove to for
her, when Count Lascazas and General Lallemande came on board with
proposals from Buonaparte, in consequence of which we came to anchor
in the evening in the roads off Rochelle. Next mor