Excerpt from The Naval Chronicle, for 1807, Vol. 18: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom; With a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects; Under the Guidance of Several Literary and Professional Men; From July to December In Naval Literature we can only notice the outline of a Plan for the better Security and Defence of the British West Indies, by Captain Layman, of the royal navy, Bro. We lament exceedingly that so injudicious and intemperate a paper, as the preface to Sir Home Popham's trial, should have been laid before the public especially as, to every candid and unprejudiced mind, it must be evident that the elements of a spirit, of which the said preface affects to accuse the officers who remonstrated against ceding their rank to him, are more strongly shown by dahgerous and unfounded reflections on as respectable and ho'nourabla a court martial as ever was assembled. 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.