"When I was last here, I wrote to some private friends in the Admiralty, telling them I was getting heartily tired of the Mediterranean, and requesting that we might be sent home; and you see how readily their lordships have complied with my wishes.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
You see, their lordships, knowing my value as a first lieutenant, have taken good care not to promote me, lest my peculiar qualities should be lost to the service.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
We may consider this island, the treasury into which forty-six lordships paid their tribute.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton