Excerpt from Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry: Late Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital This Edition varies little from its predecessor. At the suggestion of a naval officer, I have added, in the Appendix, the Proposal of Union for Prayer in behalf of the Navy, to which allusion is made in the Memoir. I have thought it best to print the paper entire, in its original form, although more than one of those, whose names stand at the end, have, with Sir Edward Parry himself, now passed away. 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.