...Some are rendered unfit from their factious connexions—others from inferiority or insufficiency ; and we have at last been obliged to make a promotion in order to do the thing properly." Rodney having observed, on his first approach to America, that the southern coast was left unguarded...

...you. Some are rendered unfit from their factious connexions, others from inferiority or insufficiency, and we have at last been obliged to make a promotion in order to do the thing properly.' (Mundy, Life of Rodney, i. 403.) Hood was in the promotion. We need not believe Sandwich on his bare...

...some are rendered unfit through their factious connections, others from infirmity or insufficiency and we have at last been obliged to make a promotion...the thing properly. Sir Samuel Hood is to have his flag.'14 Those admirals first approached had declined. Hood, in his post as Commissioner at Portsmouth,...