Guillotined, 1794.

W.L.C.] [Footnote 20: Grandfather of the poet.] [Footnote 21: The Secretary of Lloyd's, for the purposes of this work, has been so good as to cause to be specially compiled a summary of the losses and captures during the period 1775-1783.

This, so far as it deals with merchantmen and privateers, gives the following results.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | BRITISH VESSELS | ENEMY'S VESSELS |---------------------------------+---------------------------------- | Merchantmen | Privateers | Merchantmen | Privateers |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------- | |Re-taken| |Re-taken| |Re-taken| |Re-taken | Taken |or Ran- | Taken |or Ran- | Taken |or Ran- | Taken |or Ran- | [22] | somed | [22] | somed | [22] | somed | [22] | somed -- ---+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------- 1775 | -- - | -- - | -- - | -- - | -- - | -- - | -- - | -- - 1776 | 229 | 51 | -- - | -- - | 19 | -- - | 6 | -- - 1777 | 331 | 52 | -- - | -- - | 51 | 1 | 18 | -- - 1778 | 359 | 87 | 5 | -- - | 232 | 5 | 16 | -- - 1779 | 487 | 106 | 29 | 5 | 238 | 5 | 31 | -- - 1780 | 581 | 260 | 15 | 2 | 203 | 3 | 34 | 1 1781 | 587 | 211 | 38 | 6 | 277 | 10 | 40 | -- - 1782 | 415 | 99 | 1 | -- - | 104 | 1 | 68 | -- - 1783 | 98 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 3 | -- - -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Footnote 22: Including those re-taken or ransomed.

W.L.C.] [Footnote 23: A spring is a rope taken usually from the quarter (one side of the stern) of a ship, to the anchor.

By hauling upon it the battery is turned in the direction desired.] [Footnote 24: The leader, the _Leviathan_, was excepted, evidently because she lay under the Hook, and her guns could not bear down channel.