the prisoners. I am convinced they will ever think of your
Excellency's clemency with gratitude; and I have sent a
copy of your letter to the king my father, who will be fully
sensible of your Excellency's attention to me.

"I request my compliments to Madame Galvez, and that you will
be assured that actions so noble as those of your Excellency
will ever be remembered by

"Yours, sincerely, WILLIAM P."

On June 17, 1785, after a service afloat of six years and three
months, his royal highness was promoted lieutenant of the Hebe. In ten
months after this we find him serving as captain of the Pegasus; next
in the Andromeda and the Valiant; and on December 3, 1790, his royal
highness received a commission as rear-admiral of the blue, having
then been about eighteen months a peer of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, by the titles of duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, and earl
of Munster. From this period till the year 1814 his royal highness
remained on shore. On April 19, in that year, he hoisted his flag on
board the Jason, as admiral of the fleet; and on the 23rd of the same
month he sailed from Dover, with several other ships, to escort Louis
XVIII. to the coast of France; and having seen him to Calais, returned
to the Downs on the night of the 24th, and struck his flag a few days
after.[1]

During the period between the 25th of May and June 28th, 1814, (when
his royal highness finally took leave of the sea,) his flag was
hoisted, successively, in the Impregnable and Jason, and again in the
Impregnable, and from her transferred to the Magicienne; in which last