 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...Benbow the following note : " Sir, I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin, but it pleased God to order it otherwise ; I am thankful...deserted you, hang them up, for by God, they deserve it!" The affairs of England at home proceeded calmly and prosperously, every body seeming pleased with the... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1863 - 822 pages
...;— " Sm,—I had little hopes, on Monday laet, but to have supped in your cabin ; yet it plca*cd God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. As...for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang thon up, for by G—d they deserve it " Du CAUSE." " Ctirifutffcnuj Aug. эз, 170?. NAVAL BATTLES,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 374 pages
...admiration of his enemies, and the French admiral, in an eulogistic letter to him, concluded by saying, " As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for they well deserve the rope." Grief and vexation broke the old man's heart and within a few weeks he... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pages
...admiration of his enemies, and the French admiral, in an eulogistic letter to him, concluded by saying, " As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for they well deserve the rope." Grief and vexation broke the old man's heart and within a few weeks he... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1864 - 708 pages
...Benbow to this effect: " SIR, " I had little hope on Monday last bnt to have supped in your cabin; but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful...them up, for, by God, they deserve it. . . "Yours. DU CASSE." culars. She hoped they would find time to consider of some better and more effectual method... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - Great Britain - 1865 - 748 pages
...the following letter:— " SIR,—I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin; but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful...cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for they deserve it.—Yours, Du CASSE." Benbow instituted a court-martial for the trial of his mutinous... | |
 | Peter Burke - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1866 - 420 pages
...little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin, yet it pleased God to order it otherwise. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up: for by they deserve it. "Du CASSE." The original letter has been preserved by Admiral Benbow's family. Admiral... | |
 | Children's periodicals, English - 1870 - 840 pages
...had little hopes on Monday last bnt to have supped in your cabin, but it pleased God to have ordered it otherwise; I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for by they deserve it. Yours, Do CASSE. And Benbow was not slow to act upon this advice, which chimed in... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - Great Britain - 1872 - 544 pages
...had little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin, but it pleased God to have ordered it otherwise : I am thankful for it. As for those...cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for by they deserve it. " YOUPS, Du CASSE." And Benbow was not slow to act upon this advice, which chimed... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pages
...following effect :— " Sir,—I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabbin (sic); but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful...cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for, by heaven, they deserve it ! "Du CASSE." Smollett states that the boisterous manners of Benbow had produced... | |
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it otherwise ; I am thankful for it. As for those " cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, " for by God, they deserve it. 
