Is it too extravagant to suggest that, with things as they then were, with nearly five years of continuous war yet to come, and with enemies’ fleets in every sea, Admiral Watson, a man young in years for his high position,[7] might, had he been spared, have well found opportunity for achieving yet higher fame, even wider renown? His, too, in 1757, was surely in a real sense a “frontier grave”—the grave of one Who might have caught and claspt Renown, And worn her chaplet here:—and there, In haunts of jungle-poisoned air, The flame of life went wavering down. The flagship _Kent_, it so happened, did not long outlast her chief. She had for some time past shown signs of being nearly worn out, and an official survey of her, shortly after Admiral Watson’s death, resulted in her condemnation as unfit for sea. She was “cast” and ordered to be broken up, and on the 15th of September, a month all but a day from the death of her Admiral, the pennant was hauled down on board the _Kent_—still lying off Fort William—and the ship’s company were paid off and drafted into the _Cumberland_, _Tyger_, and _Salisbury_. So with the passing of the Admiral and his ship our story reaches its end. Chandernagore, of course, is nowadays a French possession, a tiny territory of three and a half square miles, with a railway station on the line to Calcutta, where very few people ever get out. It was restored to France six years after Admiral Watson took it, for no particular reason it would appear, except that there had been a General Election in England, and the new Ministry was desirous of reversing the policy of its predecessors. Our beaten enemies got back almost everything that the valour of our sailors and soldiers had won for England, in order that the Treasury Bench might score a point in party politics. But we for our part have no right to throw stones. We of the present day have seen much the same thing happen elsewhere. Chandernagore has been twice retaken since 1763, and twice given back. It was finally handed back to France in 1816, after the Napoleonic War, the Foreign Office being under the impression—so, at any rate, the story goes—that it was one of the West India islands! IV BOSCAWEN’S BATTLE:—THE TAKING OF THE _TÉMÉRAIRE_ Over the seas and far away “Old Dreadnought” steers to his fight to-day! One of the best known of all our man-of-war names reappears on the roll of the British fleet in the name _Téméraire_, now borne by one of our new giant 18,000-ton battleships of the _Dreadnought_ type. This is the story of how it came to be a British battleship name in the first place, the story of the act of war which in the sequel led to that historic man-of-war the “Fighting” _Téméraire_ figuring on another day among the ships of Nelson’s fleet at Trafalgar, to fight there as the _Victory’s_ chief supporter in the fiercest of the fray.