There was a seaman belonging to the fore-top—a mess-mate, though not a top-mate of mine, and no favourite of the Captain\'s,—who, for certain venial transgressions, had been prohibited from going ashore on liberty when the ship\'s company went. Enraged at the deprivation—for he had not touched earth in upward of a year—he, some nights after, lowered himself overboard, with the view............