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Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers
Being the Adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen
by J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback
1906
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Brothers and Sisters
II. Two Midshipmen
III. Changes and Chances in the Navy
IV. Promotions
V. The "Peterel" Sloop
VI. The Patrol of the Mediterranean
VII. At Home and Abroad
VIII. Blockading Boulogne
IX. The Pursuit of Villeneuve
X. "A Melancholy Situation"
XI. St. Domingo
XII. The Cape and St. Helena
XIII. Stars and Stripes
XIV. Chinese Mandarins
XV. A Letter From Jane
XVI. Another Letter From Jane
XVII. The End of the War
XVIII. Two Admirals
PREFACE
PERHAPS some apology may be expected on behalf of a book about Jane Austen, having regard to the number which have already been put before the public in past years. My own membership of the family is my excuse for printing a book which contains little original matter, and which might be described as "a thing of shreds and patches," if that phrase were not already over-worked. To me it seems improbable that others will take a wholly adverse view of what is so much inwoven with all the traditions of my life. When I recollect my childhood, spent chiefly in the house of my grandfather, Sir Francis, and all the interests which accompanied those early days, I find myself once more amongst those deep and tender distances. Surrounded by reminiscences of the opening years of the century, the Admir