THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER, LATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP NISUS. BY CAPTAIN W. H. SMYTH, R. N., K. S. F., F.R.S., AND F.S.A. Member of the Astronomical Society of London; and of the Society for the ΤΟ THE MOST NOBLE JOHN, DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T. &c. &c. &c. MY LORD DUKE, The interest which your Grace has ever taken in the welfare of the British Navy, would induce any writer to expect your Grace's condescension in perusing the memoir of a brave officer; but the repeated acts of kindness which I have experienced at your hands, give me the strongest grounds for hoping that the pages which I have now the honour of dedicating to your Grace, will not be looked upon with an unfavourable or an indifferent eye. It is not, however, by the liberality displayed by your Grace to the merits of Naval officers, that your fame will alone be perpetuated:-large tracts of land, enriched, by your Grace's public spirit, with upwards of thirty millions of trees, will call forth the applause of a grateful people, as long as the empire shall exist! It is a satisfaction which may cause even the blood of the illustrious House of Murray to beat high, when your Grace reflects that the forests which now shadow the once naked mountains of your extensive domains-planted in |