Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Paul Jones
In after times, when the name of Jones became the subject of romantic interest, an effort was made to assign to him what was thought a nobler origin, as the natural son' of the Earl of Selkirk, or of Mr. Craik. As if the brand of illegitimacy, and the stigma on a mother's fame, would be more than compensated by an association with noble names, or a sinister descent from a Scottish earl or from a bonnet laird best known to fame by the fact of our hero being the son of his gardener, would be a more fitting introduction to a career of glory, than birth in honourable wedlock, of humble but honest parents. These calnmnies, though intended for commendations, were falsified by the unsullied character of the wife of John Paul, and by the happiness of their union.
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