THE number itself of the present Volume of the Naval Chronicle, carries with it an ample recommendation to its readers. But our confidence in its favourable reception is founded in the consciousness, that our endeavours have been earnestly directed to the end of rendering it worthy of the very respectable patronage by which it continues to be honoured, and to induce an extension of it, by adhering, as far as they can be consistently maintained, to the leading principles under which it commenced its publication–“To do good; and to give pain to no one; to render justice unto those who deserve praise, and have experienced neglect; to cheer the uniformity of which the mariner complains, and to render him sensible of the sources from whence much amusement and instruction may be derived; and also to enable the public to form a more correct and enlarged idea of that profession, by whose exertions Great Britain stands pre-eminent in the scale of political importance.” Such are the principles of the Naval Chronicle, whose pages are always open in the practical application of them, for the publicity of naval grievances, whether of general or individual relation, respectfully stated (and surely in no other form of statement can redress be considered as its object); Biography, as commemorating distinguished acts of naval service; suggestions tending to naval improvements; articles of Hydrographical, Geographical, or Philosophical information; interesting Narratives of Shipwreck, or other relations of naval danger or enterprise, tending to display the relative resources of security or extrication; observations on Commerce, as to its varieties of place, and views of profit, &c. &c.