Note 1 — BLUE JACKETS;

I am much indebted to the kindness of Mr. Barrow for allowing me to look over the Naval Records in the Admiralty; and, in case any doubt should arise as to the originality of the design of my work, he will, I am sure, gladly bear witness that my visits there for the object of collecting materials preceded by several months the appearance of a littler book written by one of the clerks in his office, and bearing the very title which I then mentioned it was my intention to prefix to mine as a second title. I am bound, in justice to myself, to mention the circumstance; though as the events related were of past times, and often before written, I have no reason to complain of any injury inflicted on me.