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Download or read book The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Or Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres written by . This book was released on 2017-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Edinburgh Literary Journal, or Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres: January, 1830 June, 1830 The second period of his history commences in his 29th year. He had his choice to be made first-liante nant of a frigate, or captain of a sloop of war, and prefer red the former. In this post he had for a while no other opportunity of showing his zeal and energy, than what was afforded by the necessity of keeping a strict look-out to prevent desertion while the fleet was frozen in during the winter. The American arms were first tried at sea in the afi'air of the Glasgow, ofi' Block Island. For their behaviour on this occasion, two of the American captains were immediately alter brought to a court-martial; but the inferior emeers were declared to have done their duty. In 1777, Jones was appointed by Congress to the oom mand of a squadron of five vessels, destined for the attack of Pensacola. This projected expedition came to nought, through the jealousy of the commander-ia-chief; and shortly after, Jones was dispatched to France on board the Ranger, with instructions to the American Commis sioners at Paris to procure him a good vessel, and em ploy him ia Europe, should any thing ofi'sr there likely to prove conducive to the interests of the republic. After magnificent premises, with tardy and petty performance, Jones was sent with the Ranger to cruise oi? The coasts of Britain. In this expedition he took several merchant vessels, eii'ected a landing at Whitehaven and St Mary's Isle, encountered and took the Drake ship of war, and returned to Brest, in May, 177 8, after exciting the appro hensions of the whole British coast, and obtaining a null. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.