This young Mr.
Griffin seems to have spirit; and I look upon it always as a good sign when a young man _volunteers_ for a desperate thing of this sort--but he tells me he is only second; where was your first all the while ?" "Why, my lord, he got a little hurt in the brush of the morning; and I would not let him go, as a matter of course.

His name is Winchester; I think you must remember him as junior of the Captain, at the affair off St.Vincent.

Miller[4] had a good opinion of him; and when I went from the Arrow to the Proserpine he got him sent as my second.

The death of poor Drury made him first in the natural way." [4] Ralph Willet Miller, the officer who commanded the ship to which Nelson shifted his pennant, at the battle of Cape St.Vincent.

This gentleman was an American, and a native Manhattanese; his near relatives of the same name still residing in New York.