the American papers calculated to afford us so much gratification as the following, taken from the National Intelligencer of Mar. 23, 1825:–
“Captain P. R. Ging, of the brig Charles and Ellen, of Boston, with the presidents of the two Boston insurance companies, have publicly made acknowledgments, and returned thanks, for the generous aid received from Captain Clifford, of the British frigate Euryalus, his officers and men, for assistance rendered to the Charles and Ellen, when in distress at the island of Milo, in the Mediterranean. For this purpose. Captain Clifford detained his ship for seven days, and the whole of the time from 70 to 80 men, belonging to the frigate, were employed in repairing the brig. The knowledge of such acts of national civility and kindness should be more extensively diffused than common acknowledgments of service rendered, and we have pleasure in lending our aid to give further publicity to this act of amity and good feeling.”
Captain Clifford was put out of commission in May, 1825, at which period a paragraph to the following effect appeared in one of the London papers:–
“H.M.S. Euryalus was paid off, at Deptford, on Monday, the eighth day after her arrival at that place. The regularity and good order observed by her crew equalled the rapidity with which the laborious duties and paying off were discharged. On the day previous, the officers gave a dinner to Captain Clifford, in testimony of their high esteem and respectful reard. On quitting the ship, the crew requested permission to cheer their captain and first lieutenant [1], as a mark of gratitude for the kind treatment they had experienced while under Captain Clifford’s command. The Euryalus has been absent from England upwards of three years, and has returned without losing a man by desertion. We understand that a collection, under the patronage of Captain Clifford, was made for that most excellent institution, ‘the Seamen’s floating hospital,’ to which both officers and crew contributed.”
On the 27th May, 1826, Captain Clifford was appointed to the Herald yacht, in which he attended upon the Duke of Devonshire, during that nobleman’s splendid embassy to Russia. The subjoined is a correct account of the magniftcent entertainment given by his Grace in honor of the coronation of his present Imperial Majesty:–
