The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas, Volume 1

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Henry Colburn, publisher, Great Marlborough Street [printed by G.J. Palmer, Savoy St. Strand], 1844
 

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To the Reverend William Nelson Portsmouth 8th February
57
To Captain Locker Cork 20th April
63
To Captain Locker Albemarle off Cape Tiberoon 25th February
71
To Captain Locker
76
To the Reverend William Nelson London 23rd July
78
To the Reverend William Nelson St Omer 10th November
86
To the Reverend William Nelson St Omer 28th December
93
To the Reverend William Nelson London 19th March
99
To the Reverend William Nelson
105
Boreas English Harbour Antigua 24th September
110
To Commissioner Moutray
119
In continuation
126
To Lord Sydney Secretary of State
129
To the Reverend William Nelson Boreas St Kitts 28th June
133
To Mrs Nisbet Boreas English Harbour 11th September
139
To the Reverend William Nelson
150
To Captain Locker Boreas off Martinico 5th March
156
To Mrs Nisbet Boreas Carlisle Bay 25th March
163
To Philip Stephens Esq Admiralty Boreas 21st May
170
To William Suckling Esq Nevis 5th July
186
To Philip Stephens Esq Admiralty
190
To Mrs Nisbet Boreas English Harbour August
193
To Philip Stephens Esq Admiralty
199
Boreas Antigua 1st December
202
To H R H Prince William Henry Boreas 23rd January
208
To Captain Locker Boreas English Harbour 9th February
214
To Philip Stephens Esq Admiralty
220
To H R H Prince William Henry Boreas Nevis 26th April
224
To Captain Collingwood Boreas Nevis 3rd May
230
To Commodore Alan Gardner Boreas Nevis 13th May
236
To Philip Stephens Esq Admiralty
242
To the Earl of Cork Portsmouth 22nd July
249
To the Reverend William Nelson Boreas Nore 23rd September
258

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Populaire passages

Pagina 326 - Lady Hamilton has been wonderfully kind and good to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners and who does honour to the station to which she is raised.
Pagina 6 - April 2nd, 1777, and in very bad weather. But although my age might have been a sufficient cause for not entrusting me with the charge of a Watch, yet Captain Robinson used to say, 'he felt as easy when I was upon deck, as any Officer in the Ship.
Pagina 188 - Have you not often heard,' says he, in another letter, 'that salt water and absence always wash away love ? Now I am such a heretic as not to believe that faith ; for, behold, every morning I have had six pails of salt water poured upon my head, and instead of finding what seamen say to be true, it goes on so contrary to the prescription, that you must, perhaps, see me before the fixed time.
Pagina 72 - My situation in Lord Hood's Fleet must be in the highest degree flattering to any young man. He treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him : nor is my situation with Prince William less flattering.
Pagina 5 - Lutwidge complied with, and has continued the strictest friendship to this moment Lord Mulgrave, whom I then first knew, maintained his kindest friendship and regard to the last moment of his life. When the boats were fitting out to quit the two ships blocked up in the ice, I exerted myself to have the command of a four-oared cutter raised upon, which was given me, with twelve men, and I prided myself that I could navigate her better than any other boat in the ship.
Pagina 187 - I feel myself, to my Country, his heir ; and it shall, I am bold to say, never lack the want of his counsel; — I feel he gave it to me as a legacy, and had I been near him when he was removed, he would have said, ' My boy, I leave you to my Country. Serve her well, and she'll never desert, but will ultimately reward, you.
Pagina xxvii - I passed my degree as master of arts on the 9th instant (that is, passed the lieutenant's examination), and received my commission on the following day for a fine frigate of thirty -two guns. So I am now left in the world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends.
Pagina 70 - I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came alwut.
Pagina 7 - This little incident has often occurred to my mind; and I know it is my disposition, that difficulties and dangers do but increase my desire of attempting them.

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