itself with the impression of prodigious vitality, which from first to last is produced by the record of his varied activities.  In this respect, as in others, the contrast is marked between him and Saumarez, the two who more particularly illustrate the complementary sides of the brilliant group of naval leaders, in the second rank of distinction, which clustered around the great names of Nelson, Howe, and Jervis.  In the old age of Saumarez, the even, ordered tenor of his active military life is reflected in the peaceful, satisfied enjoyment of repose and home happiness, of the fruits of labors past, which Collingwood, probably without good reason, fancied to be characteristic of his own temperament.  Lord Exmouth, compelled to be a passive spectator, saw with consequent increased apprehension the internal political troubles of Great Britain in his later days.  Though not a party man, he was strongly conservative, so that the agitations of the Reform era concealed from him the advantages towards which it was tending, and filled him with forebodings for the future of his country.

Like his distinguished contemporary, Admiral Saumarez, and like many others of those lion-hearted, masculine men who had passed their lives amid the storms of the elements and of battle,—­and like our own Farragut,—­Lord Exmouth was a deeply religious man.  Strong as was his self-reliance in war and tempest, he rested upon the Almighty with the dependence of a child upon its father.  His noble brother, Sir Israel Pellew, who had followed Nelson into the fire at Trafalgar, departed with the words, “I know in Whom I have believed;” and of the admiral himself, an officer who was often with him during the closing scene said, “I have seen him great in battle, but never so great as on his deathbed.”

Lord Exmouth died on January 23, 1833.  He was at the time Vice-Admiral of England, that distinguished honorary rank having been conferred upon him but a few months before his death.

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Of the last four admirals whose careers have been here sketched, Howe alone inherited fortune and high social rank; but he also fought his way far beyond the modest position bequeathed to him by his brother.  Eminent all, though in varying manner and degree, each illustrated a distinct type in the same noble profession.  All were admirable officers, but they differed greatly in original endowments and consequent development.  It was intuitive with St. Vincent to take wide and far-sighted views, and to embody them in sustained, relentless action.  Endued by nature with invincible energy and determination, he moved spontaneously and easily along his difficult path.  He approached, although he did not attain genius.  In Howe is seen rather the result of conscientious painstaking acting upon excellent abilities, but struggling always against a native heaviness and a temper constitutionally both indolent and indulgent; a temper to which indeed