Jan 1, 2022
We were charged with despatches for the fleet then off Cadiz, and on the tenth day we fell in with it, remained a week in company, and then were ordered to Gibraltar and Malta. From Malta we went home again with despatches, having been out three months.
During this short and pleasant run, I certainly did not learn much of my profession, but I did learn a little of the ways of the world.
— Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene
Senglea Point, Malta by Giovanni Schranz c. 1828