To the coasts of Finland was sent a splendid Armada, commanded by one of the bravest seamen that ever adorned the glorious muster-roll of the Royal Navy of England, Admiral Sir Charles Napier.

Under his orders was Captain Augustus Hobart, in command of Her Majesty's ship Driver.

"Lads, sharpen your cutlasses!" thus began the memorable manifesto addressed by the hero of St.Jean d'Acre to the gallant tars.

The Baltic fleet was to do wonders.

The lads, with their cutlasses very well sharpened, went aboard the Russian war-ships before Cronstadt, stormed the seven forts which guard the entrance to that harbour, and sailed up the Neva even to St.Petersburg itself.