FEW men have served their country more faithfully than this officer, and still fewer in this age of egotism and vanity, have taken so little pains to make their services known.

Mr. C. Pole, the son of Reginald Pole, Esq. of Stoke Damarell, in Devonshire, and of Anne, second daughter of John Francis Buller, Esq. of Morval, in Cornwall, was born at Stoke on the 18th of January, 1757. He is a descendant from the eminent family of Pole, belonging to Shute, in Devonshire, being great grandson of Sir John Pole, the third baronet, and of Anne, youngest daughter of Sir William Morice, Knt. one of the secretaries of state to Charles II.

Mr. Charles Pole received the first rudiments of his education at the grammar school at Plympton, and thence was entered at the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, June 18, 1770. After having gone through the plan, which is prescribed for the midshipmen brought up at that institution, he embarked with the early patron of Nelson, Captain Locker, in his Majesty's ship Thames, of 32 guns, in which he served until December 1773; when he was discharged into the Salisbury. It was on board this ship that Sir E. Hughes afterwards hoisted his broad pendant, Captain G. R. Walters, and proceeded to the East Indies in 1774.