life amongst excellent fellows, on board a floating tower and mansion equal to the most convenient and best regulated establishments ashore? It is a long time since a fleet was seen in our Roads, although there is probably no point upon the coast where so much shipping passes as this. The last fleet that was in the Roads was in 1810, under the command of Admiral Somers, whose flagship was the Victory (Nelson’s old ship), and that fleet passed here on its way to the Baltic, the ports of which it was going to blockade. There were then in the fleet besides the Admiral’s ship of 98 guns, the Formidable, 98; the St. George, 98; the Dreadnought, 98, now a hospital ship, and a number of 74’s, making together fourteen sail, some of which were with Admiral Sir John Ross, at the blockade of Dantzic, in 1812 (and frozen up there in 1813). In 1801, Nelson was in here on his way to Copenhagen, and in 1807, Admiral Gambier’s fleet was bound for the same place, and sailing hence fetched in the ships and stores of the Danes. In the time of those fleets, the North Sea and Baltic Pilots of this port were of great service—a class of men of whom, we believe, only one remains. His name is Richard Webb. He was frozen up in the Baltic in 1812, while acting as pilot (wintered there during the burning of Moscow), and was altogether engaged for 15 years in piloting government vessels in the wars of that time, important services for which the old boy alleges he has received nothing but unfulfilled promises from the “great guns” aloft. One would think that an old sailor who had served in the “battle and the breeze” for so long a period, and in such momentous times, ought to have received some substantial recognition of his services.