sketches, part plan, part elevation, some of which survive for the
amusement of posterity. He did a good deal of surveying, so that
here we may perhaps lay our finger on the beginning of Fleeming's
education as an engineer. What is still more strange, among the
relics of the handsome midshipman and his stay in the gun-room of
the PROTHEE, I find a code of signals graphically represented, for
all the world as it would have been done by his grandson.

On the declaration of peace, Charles, because he had suffered from
scurvy, received his mother's orders to retire; and he was not the
man to refuse a request, far less to disobey a command. Thereupon
he turned farmer, a trade he was to practice on a large scale; and
we find him married to a Miss Schirr, a woman of some fortune, the
daughter of a London merchant. Stephen, the not very reverend, was
still alive, galloping about the country or skulking in his
chancel. It does not appear whether he let or sold the paternal
manor to Charles; one or other, it must have been; and the sailor-
farmer settled at Stowting, with his wife, his mother, his
unmarried sister, and his sick brother John. Out of the six people
of whom his nearest family consisted, three were in his own house,
and two others (the horse-leeches, Stephen and Thomas) he appears
to have continued to assist with more amiability than wisdom. He
hunted, belonged to the Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and
Lucy, the latter coveted by royalty itself. 'Lord Rokeby, his
neighbour, called him kinsman,' writes my artless chronicler, 'and
altogether life was very cheery.' At Stowting his three sons,
John, Charles, and Thomas Frewen, and his younger daughter, Anna,
were all born to him; and the reader should here be told that it is
through the report of this second Charles (born 1801) that he has
been looking on at these confused passages of family history.