ps and submitting
several drawings, some of which were ordered to be engraved for the
private museum. In return the King presented him with his commission as
Post-Captain and his appointment to H.M.S. Kent. The commission, signed
by Sandwich, Penton, and Pallisser, bears date 9th August. Furneaux was
made Captain. He sailed for America in October, and was present at the
attack on New Orleans in 1777; he died at the age of forty-six, some four
years later. Kempe, Cooper, and Clerke were promoted to Commanders; and
Isaac Smith, Lieutenant. Mr. Wales was appointed Mathematical Master at
Christ's Hospital, and Charles Lamb mentions him as having been a severe
man but:

"a perpetual fund of humour, a constant glee about him, heightened by an
inveterate provincialism of North Country dialect, absolutely took away
the sting from his severities."

Mr. Forster was received by the King at Kew, and was afterwards presented
to the Queen, to whom he gave some of the birds bought at the Cape. He
also attracted attention from another quarter, for Lloyd's Evening Post
reports that on 6th August, his house at Paddington "was broke open and
robbed of effects of considerable value." Again the Morning Post, 23rd
August, reports:

"Monday night, as Mr. John Reynold Forster was returning from Chelsea in
a post chaise, he was attacked by three highwaymen, near Bloody Bridge,
who robbed him of three guineas and a watch set with diamonds."

GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

Acting on advice from the Admiralty, Cook, on 12th August, applied for
the position of one of the Captains of Greenwich Hospital, vacant through
the death of Captain Clements, stipulating that if occasion arose in
which his services would be of use elsewhere, he might be permitted to
resign. This application was immediately granted, and his appointment is
dated on the same day as his application. The salary was 200 pounds per
year, with a residence and certain small allowances such as fire and
light, and one shilling and twopence per day table money. It is apparent
from his letters that though he may have taken over some of the duties
(but that is improbable, owing to his time being fully occupied preparing
his Journal for the press and then making arrangements for his final
voyage), he never entered upon residence but remained at Mile End. He,
however, found time to write two letters to Mr. Walker of Whitby, in the
first of which he speaks rather despondingly of being "confined wit