who is set up in business in a public line: call for what you want, and here's the loose change to keep your pocket until something turns up." Poor Bob got a _good dinner_, a _good bed_, and a _snug hammock_, that night; and shortly afterwards he obtained a birth in an Indiaman, and is now doing well. The royal reefer's heart bounded with joy at performing this noble action to recover which he put himself for a month on short allowance. But this is only one of many such traits in the character of this heart of oak whose name the writer could scarcely venture to state, but who will here remember this scene. HARRY HATCHWAY. _H.M.S. Perseus, off the Tower, Nov._ 1827. [Footnote 1: "Naval and Military Magazine," No. 3.] [Footnote 2: Ibid.] [Footnote 3: Ibid.] [Footnote 4: Beatson, in his _Political Index_, designates the Lord High Admiral as the _ninth_ great officer of the state; but in ancient times this office was usually given to some of the king's sons, and which, in twelve different instances, has been filled by the king in person.--The present patent to his royal highness the Duke of Clarence was stated by the Lord Chancellor, in parliament, June 15, 1827, to be "similar to that of Prince George of Denmark, with this difference, that the _Droits_ of the Admiralty were reserved from Prince George by an express covenant, while in the present circumstances they are excepted in the commission."] [Footnote 5: Naval and Military Magazine.] [Footnote 6: Prince William Henry, the present Duke of Clarence, when a midshipman.] * * * * * By way of a _tail-piece_ to this already extended memoir, we present our readers with an accurate engraving of THE ROYAL CLARENCE CUP, [Illustration]