PERSONAL NARRATIVE
OF EVENTS,

From 1799 to 1815,

WITH ANECDOTES.

BY THE LATE

VICE-ADM^L. W^M. STANHOPE LOVELL, R.N., K.H.

SECOND EDITION.

London:
WM. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, W.

1879.

WITHERBY AND CO., PRINTERS,
74, CORNHILL; NEWMAN’S COURT, CORNHILL; AND 325A, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.

To Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie, C.B., K.C.H.

My dear Sir Robert,

In dedicating the following pages to you, under whose command I had the honour of serving in the Chesapeake, &c., I do it with the greatest respect, esteem, and admiration of your conduct.

I must ever consider you as one of those officers upon whom the country may safely rely in the hour of peril, and in whose hands it may entrust its honour in the day of battle. Like the celebrated Bayard of old, your career has obtained for you a character, “sans peur et sans reproche.”

Your faithful friend,

THE AUTHOR.

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