The Lieut.-Governor in Keppel's time was Captain J. Wentworth Loring, who, as a matter of fact, filled that post for seventeen years; and Sir Henry thus describes his uniform: Blue coat, open in front, gold epaulettes, white kerseymere waistcoat and pantaloons, Hessian boots, straight thin sword, cocked hat. The uniform of the youngsters was a blue tail coat with stand-up collar, plain raised gilt buttons, round hat with gold lace loop and cockade. "We cadets," he says--though the term was not officially in use at that time--"had each a cabin about seven feet square, with a window, except the corner ones, which at the monthly changes were occupied by those who had been oftenest on the black list, and did not require daylight." The London coach used to come into the Dockyard to take the lads away for their holidays, and it was customary on these occasions to draw lots for the box seat. Peashooters were procured outside the Yard, and passers-by had a lively time. "One night," says Keppel, "I had the box seat; the Royal Mail picked up and dropped boys as we came along, so that it was midnight before we reached Godalming. The postmaster having turned in, the mail pulled up, as usual, under his bedroom windows. The moment they were opened, the postmaster and his wife were assailed with peashooters, etc. The guard was saying, 'All right,' when the postmistress, calling, 'There is something else,' emptied the slops on the boys as we drove off." In the "Life of Admiral Sir William R. Mends," who joined the College in May, 1825, reference is made to an unpleasant feature in the matter of leave-giving. In a letter to his mother, young Mends speaks with much indignation of the "toadying" that went on, and complains that when his uncle came for a while to Portsmouth, and endeavoured to obtain permission for him to go "out of gates" for an hour or two, it was refused, but that "my lord this or that" had only to send his butler to obtain a pass for any boy. In the "Memoirs of Admiral Sir Thomas S. Pasley" there are numerous quotations, not from his letters--he appears to have been weak at letter-writing, as many boys are--but from those of his chum, George Rodney Mundy. Writing to his mother, February 10th, 1818, Mundy says:--