Excerpt from The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver: Late of His Majesty's Ship Nisus 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! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.