being confined during the whole of under her first equipment for service. the war to the casual capture of small In 1782, the Goliath formed part of a frigates or sloops, and the destruction squadron of eleven sail of the line, of the enemy's commerce by the sei- under admiral Barrington, which was zure of their merchant vessels. In detached to intercept a French conSeptember 1781, being ordered out voy then ready to sail from Brest to on a cruise, he had the misfortune to the East Indies. This measure proved be shipwrecked in the Phoenix on the successful, and the Goliath was also island of Cuba, in a most dreadful engaged in the different cruises made hurricane. The greater part of the during the summer of that year under ship's company was happily saved, Lord Howe. and the survivors, amounting to 240, France and Spain, at this time, had arrived safe in Montego Bay in the in conjunction resolved to make a Porcupine sloop and three shallops. most formidable attack on Gibraltar. The conduct of Sir Hyde on this The combined fleet of those two distressing occasion was exemplary powers had united in one common in the highest degree, for though cause, and taken a position in the the Phonix was wrecked on an ene- Straits to prevent the forcible intromy's island the crew were preserved duction of supplies by the English. to the service of their country. To avert the effect of this disposition

by Sir Hyde Parker held on this occasion the honourable post of leader of the van division of the flcet. In the trivial engagement which followed, the relief of the fortress, which was effected in spite of the efforts of the combined fleets, the Goliath suffered the loss of four men killed and two officers and fourteen men wounded.

In consequence of this misfortune of the enemy's forces, Lord Howe he returned to England, and was soon sailed from England with a fleet conafter appointed to the command of sisting of thirty-four ships of two and the Latona, a new frigate, of 38 guns. three decks, besides frigates and At this period the conduct of the sloops, and the Goliath commanded Dutch towards Great Britain, and the insidious assistance rendered by them to the French, the Spaniards, and the Americans, had given just umbrage to the British government; remonstrances had long been treated with the most supercilious neglect, and it at length became necessary to send a squadron into the North Sea, as well for the protection of the British com- Immediately after this event, the merce as to oppose whatever force the belligerent powers, tired with this long Dutch might send into those seas. struggle, turned their attention to enThe command of this squadron was ter into a peaceable accommodation of given to vice-admiral Hyde Parker, their disputes, and preliminaries of the father of the subject of this me- peace being signed, hostilities ceased. moir, and the Latona frigate com- The Goliath was still retained in commanded by the son was ordered to mission as a guard-ship on the peace join the fleet. The protection of the establishment, and Sir Hyde, on his Baltic trade was the first object en- first appointment to this new occupatrusted to this armament, and, when tion, was stationed at Sheerness, but, on its return homeward with its after a few months, the ship was orcharge, had the fortune to fall in dered to be refitted at Chatham, and with, on the 5th of August, 1781, a was dispatched, in consequence of an Dutch squadron of superior force, economical arrangement made by the outward bound, on a service exactly Admiralty Board to save the expense similar. A battle ensued, which was of transports, to Gibraltar, with troops well contested on both sides, and con- to replace such part of that garrison cluded, without any signal advantages as had been stationed there a longer on either side, though one of the time than was customary. On his reDutch line of battle-ships sunk soon turn to England, he was ordered to

after the action.

Almost immediately after the return of the fleet into port, Sir Hyde Parker was promoted from the Latona to the Goliath, a new ship, of 74 guns,

Portsmouth, where the Goliath remained as guard-ship during the usual period allotted to such commands.

In 1787, when the dispute took place between the Stadtholder and the

republican faction in Holland, it was appointed in the object which they found expedient that Great Britain had proposed to execute.

should equip a considerable number Sir Hyde was advanced, on the 12th of ships in order to be ready to coun- of April, 1794, to be rear-admiral of teract the attempts of the factious the red squadron, and on the 4th of Hollanders. Among the officers se- July following to be vice-admiral of lected to command on this occasion, the Blue; he therefore quitted his Sir Hyde Parker was appointed to the station of captain of the fleet on board Orion, a new ship, of 74 guns, but the the Victory, and hoisted his flag in storm blowing over by the military the St. George of 98 guns, as cominterference of Prussia, the Orion was mander of a division of the fleet, and put out of commission, and Sir Hyde on the 1st of June, 1795, he was proonce more retired into private life. moted to be vice-admiral of the Red. Three years after this, when the dis- No other material occurrence took pute took place with Spain relating to place during the remainder of the the British settlement at NootkaSound, time that Sir Hyde continued in the Sir Hyde was appointed to the Bruns- Mediterranean, except the second wick, of the same force as the two last skirmish with the French fleet on he commanded. This dispute being the 13th of July, in which L'Alcide almost immediately amicably settled, of 74 guns was captured, but before in consequence of the spirited exer- she could be taken possession of, took tions of the British ministry, Sir Hyde fire and blew up.

resigned his command, and never In 1796, Sir Hyde returned to Engheld any subsequent one as a private land, and was almost immediately after captain. On the commencement of his arrival appointed to the command the war with France, in 1793; and, in of the ships on the Jamaica station, the promotion of flag officers which a service of a peculiar nature, and in immediately followed, Sir Hyde was which his measures were judicious advanced to the rank of rear-admiral and effectual, and successful almost of the White, and accepted of the sta- beyond precedent. After continuing tion of first captain to vice-admiral full three years in the West Indies, Hood, who was appointed to command he returned to England, and was ap a formidable fileet ordered into the pointed to a command in the channel Mediterranean. Heet; but his occupation in this line The events which took place in that of service passed over without any sea during the time that Lord Hood, memorable occurrence or creating and afterwards Lord Hotham, held any national interest. that command, were all participated Towards the close of the year 1800, in to the utmost of his power by Sir the emperor of Russia suddenly Hyde, who availed himself of every changed his political system and opiopportunity to exert his faculties for nions, and from being the strenuous the good of the service. The sur opponent of the gigantic power of render of Toulon, the reduction of the France, became equally eager and acisland of Corsica, the two different ac- tive in favour of her, and by various tions of Lord Hotham with the French means induced the courts of Denmark, fleet, the first in March and the se- Sweden, and Prussia to form in concond in July 1795, were all of them junction with him a naval confedeoccurrences extremely interesting to racy, which had for its object the enthis gallant officer, but that in which deavour to force England to admit Sir Hyde had the greatest power of the new system of free ships making displaying his exertions was in the free goods. In order to counteract first action which took place between this monstrous proposition, the BriLord Hotham and the French fleet. tish ministry fitted cut a large fleet In this action, two French line of bat- and sent it into the Baltic, under the tle-ships, the Ca Ira of 80 guns, and orders of Sir Hyde Parker, whose sethe Censeur of 74 guns were captured. cond in command was Lord Nelson. Although the general result of the bat- The effects it produced were as intie was not so completely successful stantaneous as they were violent: the as it promised to have been, yet the English fleet having forced the pasFrench returned into port wholly dis- sage of the Sound, on the 30th of

MR.

March, 1801, which the Danes con- R. DALZELL was one of the sidered impracticable. Lord Nelson most eminent classical scholars attacked, on the 2d of April, the Da- that have ever adorned a Scottish uninish naval force stationed in front of versity. He was born about the year Copenhagen. The obstacles which 1750, at a farm-house in the parish of the English ships had to surmount Ratho, a few miles west of Edinburgh. were of the most formidable and tre- His father was a respectable and inmendous description, but no effort of dustrious husbandman. He enjoyed, art, no advantage of nature, was ca- at an early age, the benefits of instrucpable of resisting the steady valour, tion in the first principles of classical the skill and judgment so eininently knowledge at the public school of his displayed on this occasion. native parish, and went, from thence, Sir Hyde Parker, though the com- to the schools and the university of mander-in-chief of this fleet, entrusted Edinburgh. The gentleness and puthe execution of his instructions to rity of his manners, the discretion and the judicious and courageous efforts propriety of his conduct, his enthuof Lord Nelson, his second in com- siasm for sound and elegant literature, mand, and they were fulfilled in the and his extraordinary proficiency in it, strictest and most ample manner. Af- recommended him to the particular ter one of the most terrible battles that notice of the late Earl of Lauderdale, had ever been fought between con- when that nobleman was looking out tending nations the Danes were for a tutor to his eldest son-the neobliged to submit, and an armistice gotiator, who so recently foiled the having been concluded, the northern artifices of Talleyrand, Clarke, and confederacy was completely extin- Champagny, at Paris. He superinguished. The death of the emperor tended the private studies and amusePaul put an end to all the hopes of ments of his noble pupil; assisted his France being ever able to revive it; exercises in the university, was with and the English fleet having, after him in hearing the lectures of Millar, the victory obtained at Copenhagen, the famous juridical professor of Glasproceeded further up the Baltic, but gow; and afterwards accompanied him the King of Sweden being willing to to Paris. Upon his return from the listen to terms of accommodation; continent, he was, at the recommenand the new emperor of Russia (Alex- dation of the late Earl of Lauderdale, ander) proposing amicable overtures, appointed to succeed Mr. Hunter in Sir Hyde Parker returned to England, the professorship of the Greek lanand arrived at Yarmouth, in the guage at Edinburgh. From this time Blanche frigate, on the 16th of May. began his career of great and illustrious After this affair, which turned the public usefulness. politics of the north into a more fa- Classical learning had been on the vourable channel, Sir Hyde Parker decline at Edinburgh, from the time retired from active service, and has when the public lectures ceased to be since lived in honourable retirement. read in the Latin language, and when In 1799, he was promoted to the rank French literature and composition in of admiral, and when his Majesty re- English came to be much in vogue. stored the Red flag, he was one of Even while the Foulis' were publishthose officers who was promoted on ing their famous editions of the Greek that occasion. He died at his house classics at Glasgow, and while Moore, in Great Cumberland-street, London, one of the most ingenious philologists on the 16th of March, 1807. and the most profound and accurate Greek scholars of the age, was teach ANDREW DALZELL, A.M. F.R.S.Ed. ing in the university of that city, Professor of the Greek Language in Grecian learning was very little rethe University of Edinburgh, Keeper garded at Edinburgh. The students of the University Library, Princi- in divinity were content if they learned pal Clerk to the General Assembly Greek enough to read the Greek Tesof the Church of Scotland, and one tament; candidates for the higher of the Secretaries of the Royal Society honours in medicine sought just as of Edinburgh; whose death was an- much of this language as should enable nounced at p. 289. them to spell out the aphorisms of

Hippocrates: none else cared for of collections out of the Greek auGreek. Mr. Dalzell, from the mo- thors, including all those passages ment of his appointment, thought which he wished to explain in teachonly how to communicate that passion ing the language. These were printed which he himself felt for the richest in several volumes, under the titles of and most polished language of an- Collectanea Minora and Collectanea tiquity. He adopted the use of Moore's Majora. He added, in each volume, Grammar, the shortest, the most ac- short notes in Latin, explanatory of curate, and the most easily intelligible the difficult places. The Greek texts that had been published. To supply were printed with singular brevity, the deficiency of its parts, he dictated perspicuity, and judgment. His Lalessons, short, perspicuous, and ele- tinity in the notes and in short pregant as the rules of Moore. His sup- faces to the several parts of the collecplementary syntax of the propositions, tion, is the most remarkable for deliand other parts of speech, was ad- cate propriety and genuine power of mirable: he explained the passages classical expression, perhaps of any of Herodotus, of Xenophon, of Thu- thing that has been for many years cydides, of Homer, of which the sen- written in this country in a learned timent and imagery were the most language.

adapted to win upon young minds, He, at the same time, composed with a clearness of intelligence, and and read to the students a series of with a sweet and ardent yet modest lectures on the language and antiquienthusiasm, which it was impossible ties, the philosophy and the history, to resist. Of a frame of mind remark- the literature, the eloquence, the poeably congenial with that of Plato; he try, and the fine arts, of the Greeks. took delight to select the beauties of Those lectures were the result of the that philosopher's dialogues for the unremitting study of the Grecian auuse of his pupils. He instructed them thors themselves. Of a diligent comin the clearest and most lively parts parison of those originals with every of the critical and ethical tracts of collateral illustration which was to be Aristotle; the tragedies of Sophocles found; of intimate acquaintance with and Euripides furnished scenes, of the best modern writers in history, which the interest particularly assisted philosophy, poetry, and criticism. his endeavours in favour of Grecian The composition was unaffectedly elelearning. From the lyric and pastoral gant, and the train of the lectures was poets; from Asop, Alian, Theophras- beautifully consecutive and systetus, Lucian; from the epigramma- matic. Mr. Dalzell was careful to tists, and especially from Demos- read them with a slow and distinct thenes and the other orators, he culled emphatic yet easy elocution, the most whatever was the most intelligible and convenient to the ear and the underattractive to young minds, with a dili- standing. There was a suavity in his gence and a fond solicitude almost voice and manner, than which nothing without example. These selections could well be more attractive. His formed the course of readings, in enthusiasm for every excellence apwhich it was his desire to engage and pertaining to the Greeks was, from detain his students for at least four or time to time, breaking out in emofive sessions. At first, he only indi- tions affecting his voice and manner; cated what books he wished the stu- and it was attempted with an inge dents to provide themselves with, for nious modesty, sometimes timid, as if the readings in their respective classes. he had been in the presence of the But the variety and the expense were most distinguished judges; and, certoo great; and his other endeavours tainly, the most amiable, in the dewould have been defeated, if his zeal meanor of a professor before his pufor the revival of Greek learning, his pils. His success has been, by these tender interest in the instruction of means, almost complete. his pupils, and the conscience he put in the discharge of his duty, had not excited him to compile and print, at a considerable expense, and with extraordinary pains and labour, a series

He communicated among the youth at that University a large portion of his own enthusiasm for Grecian learning, and persuaded many of them to study Greek for twice or thrice the

alike over sloth and over levity. Those

ferent class room were noisy, restless, negligent, wantonly troublesome, no sooner came into Mr. Dalzell's presence than they were for the hour transformed, as by magic, into the most modest and quiet young gentlemen, and the most attentive students one could desire to see. He treated them with a gracious politeness and respect, which, in a manner, compelled them to respect both him and themselves. He was careful to make a spirit of piety and virtue pervade the whole course of his instructions: it was gentle, insinuating, and pleasing, it breathed itself into young minds without harassing or disgusting them.

length of time which it was before usual to devote to that language. It who,but a moment before and in a difbecame a fashion among most of the students in the university, whatever their ultimate objects of pursuit, to resort with eagerness to hear his lectures. He accomplished a sort of restoration of classical and even of elegant literature, in general, at Edinburgh. He gave, within his own province, a celebrity to the university, which was the means of drawing many strangers from England and other parts to pursue their studies in it. He contributed to fill the professions of the church, of the law, and of medicine throughout Scotland, with men who, after they left the university, had but to continue an easy attention to Grecian learning, amid their ne- His concluding lecture every sescessary relaxations from professional sion was, in particular, a favourite duties, in order to attain to the most with the students; to hear it many consummate skill in it; and yet his would defer, even for several weeks, fondness for his favourite literature their departure for the country: it was not satisfied. He has frequently reviewed the studies of the session, complained to the writer of this arti- exhorted to ardent diligence during cle, that the passion which he inspired the vacation, pointed out the books for the study of Greek proved usually the fittest to be then read, indicated but transient and fugitive. Many of the proper exercises in composition, his favourite pupils, when he happened dwelt affectingly upon the charms of again to meet them after they had classical literature and of virtue; and, gone out perhaps two or three years in a strain of the finest christian and from college, would severely disap- platonic enthusiasm, taught the heart point his hopes by appearing to have to elevate itself, through the survey entirely neglected classical learning of the works of nature up to nature's from the moment they left the univer- God. On this occasion, the professor sity. With young clergymen in par- and his pupils never parted but in ticular he could not help being much tears. Such was his conduct as a prodispleased to find, that from the time fessor for a period of nearly thirty of their obtaining livings, they gene- years; his pupils regarded him with rally discontinued all regular study, the affection due to a parent, and not only of Greek but even of every usually met from him the beneficence branch of philology and science. of a father's love; and hundreds have Many of the students at his classes been introduced by him into situations, were very young, just emancipated as tutors, and into other honourable from the school and the rod; and certain that at college they were not to be beaten under any professor but himself, such boys were in the hours of instruction too often inattentive, tumultuous, full of quips and crancks' and unseasonable glee, more disposed to make merry with the teacher's solicitude for their improvement, than to profit by it; but the mingled dignity and gentleness of his manner had power to charm the gid- On the death of the learned profesdiest and most froward boy to his book sor of oriental languages (Dr. James and to his seat. There was a witchery Robertson), Mr. Dalzell was chosen in his address which could prevail to succeed him, as keeper of the pub

connexions, which proved the means of their subsequent advantageous and useful establishment in the world. His advice was confided in by parents, in respect to their childrens' education, more than that of any other man in any university or other seminary in the three kingdoms. Upon the institution of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was persuaded to undertake the functions of secretary to its literary class.