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in a Letter too Friend.

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,L MEMOIR OF

TOIL aI,iMT wovne AAAAA
LORD NELSON OF THE NILE,,, K. B.
My sou, thour.h alone, is brave; o.ear is like !Walt of
the Sky ! Come ye dim ghosts of my Yahoos, and behold
7 ',wets in War: I may fall, but I oral be renovroad!
.'4ll dantri threatens. I svjeke in the Sturm'
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(E.t• (in that eaC•11•11t Wnrk. Ths :Coca CA smelt,
V n'. 111 XVI )

Or ippearame of h stibties with Spain, rela-
tive to - F 03c-ttici Islands. in the year 17;0, Mr.
H. Nelson left the school et North Waliham, and,
at twee. Teats of .sge, was received o:, hoard the
R.isestifple, 64 gaits, by his maternal uacle, Captain
Maurice
iluring month of April, in the year 1779, in
consequence of an applicattoe to L. id Sandwich,
from the koyal Sneiety, a vosage ot d.senvery
towards the North was it J -rtaken oe the
Hot:mars' le Captain C. Phipps, Atte:wards Lord
Mulgrie .
Atte ineirnetions wete issued t!.at no boys
should '. _cc-eyed on hoard. vet the enter„risiitg
mind • f Pioeatio Nelson, ra he. 'rusts suhmit in he
lett bett.i.-', ansitenly ,I.ci-ed efi b. appehe.eal
COSS'oail Cajtiaitt tr;) 15t.04 sttuek
with the unsteSeued spier whie.:' displayed fir so
ii....iertate,g, Was e-ngth prevailed on
to r-ceive bus in tnis .y.
• 0., his return to Englen.i. in the month of ORO-
bet 1773. Mr. Nelson hearing tivat a squadron was
fitting on. fo• 'he East I edics, ex-rted his interest to
he appointed to one of the ships. Ile was soon
placed in the Sea-lin,w, of 20 gums, wi.h that la-
m-nted veteran, the renowned l aptein Farmer. In
this ship, Mr. Nelson was statioue.l to watch in the
for ; whence, is time, he was placed on-the
qua: ter-dee k
Mi. N lson passed the professional ordeal as
tietnerant, on the eighth of April. 1777; and ifte
nest day receive I his commission, as second of the
Loon off. 32 guns, Captain William Locker; in
this ship he arrived at 111114;.' ; ut finding, that
even a frigate was not sufficiently alive fat his
glowing mind, lie soheite an appointment to the
command of a schemer, to .der to the Leuteeteeft-;
and its this small vessel eagerly evaded hums If ni.
Of' Imeirtemit, coming a uirripiete pilot for
all the intricate passages thernieh the Keys (island)
titillated on the northern side of ebst.,snine,.
Soon after rye arrival of Rear-% !mita' Sir Peter
Parker at Jamaica, in the year 1778, he eppeinted
' Liettenent Nelson third of IT R/11101, his flag ship ';'11
fro* which, by rotation, he bocerne the ersz ; and,
ender See Peter Parker's Rog, is the &we!, c.ms..
ri tided Ile services in the rank of a Lieute..ant.
Capella Nelson . • 'riled his post rank on the I Ith
of Jude, 1779; and, during the nine reel he had
bee: k the service, had, by keen observation, and
ie.-essart application to every part of his duty, not
on'e heanne an able officer, bur had also laid the
fre-istatson of being a mend able pilot.
Cho first ship to which Captain Nelson was ap-
pointed, after his advance to post-rank. was the
Ilnwhiahroke. On the arrival of Count D'Estaing.
at Hispaniola, with a eumersius fleet and army, from
Martinice, ea attack on Jamaica was immediately
expeßed : in this cri,ical situatioe of the island,
Captain Nelson was intrusted. both by the Admiral
and General, with the command of the batteries at
Port Royal This was deemed the most important
tent in Jansaice, as being the key to the naval force
ot the town of Kingston, and to the seat of Govern-
ment at Spanish ['own. During the month of Ja-
nuary, 1780, an expedition being resolved on for
the reduet on of Fort Juan, on the River St. John,
in the Gulph of Mexico, Captain Nelson Was ap-
pointed to command the naval department. and
l eine Poison the military. In effe9lng this arduous
service, Captain Nelson displayed his usual intrepi-
dity : he quitted his ship, and superintended the
transporting of the troops, in boats, one hundred
'Riles up a river, which none but Spaniards, since
the time of the Baccetieers, had ever navigated.
Major Pulsou bore ample testimony to General
Drilling of his brave toll: ague's exertions, as well
as gallantry, it this service ; who, after storming an
out-post of the enemy, situated on an island in the
river, construseed batteries, and fought the Spe-
iiierds with their own guns: to Captain Nelson's
condttel, the principal cause of our success is redu-
cing Fort Juan was ascribed.
From the extreme fatigue Captain Nelson endured
on this expedition, hie health became visibly hie
paired. Being soon afterwards appointed to the
Jima, of 44 guns, at Jamaica, be took his passage
thither in the Via, r sloop to join his ship. On his
arrival, Sir Peter Parker kindly prevailed upon him
to live at his Penn, where Captain Nelson received
every attention and medical assistance; but hit state
of health was so tepidly dedioieg, that he was
obliged to Fetus to England in His Majesty's ship
Ltt.a, ciatitnianded by the Honourable William
Cornwallis; through whose tare wed attention his
life was again preserved.

In the month of August, mitt, Captain Nelson
was appointed to the corm/m..1 of the elltetenrk t
when his delicate cnestitotion underwent a severe
trial, by being kept the whole of the ensuing winter
in the North Seas.
Captain Nets:in sailed from Qinthec. with a ems
voy to New.Y.i. k, in the month of Oetober, 179!;
at which place he joined the fleet tinder the com-
mand of Sir Samuel ' hood ; and, in Novemh''t,
s i'led with him to -he West holies, where he con-
t.; i led atlively em ol•sverl until the Peace Captain
N ilson was soon afterwards rodered to England.
heirs! directed .n his way In 1:f.• . : I !is Royal High-
ness Prince Pr ion Ti - • y o , his visit to the H.S.
vannah. At hi. arri .at ia Pnglarti. the /fines&
war paid 4ar Pony's-nab, Ju'y t? !, 1733. Dur-
ing the autumn of this year. Captain Nelson vent
to France, where he continued until the spr;cg et
the year 1794. when he was appointed to the com-
mand of the Boren: frigate, of 28 guns, and was
ordered to the Leeward Islands.
From the month 0fJe1y.1736, until that of June.
in the following year. Captain Nelson continued
with the coalman I, arthe'lLeethard Islanas:.wheti
at length he sailed for Knoland : during the pre-
ceding winter, Prince IVilliam Henry visited this
station, in the Pegaie Irigate, to which his Royal
Highness had bee appointed Captain. ripr can-
dila of Captain Nelson, as Commanding Officer,
rained him the esteem and friendship of the young
Prince, tivlucli increased with adveiteing years. Is
the month of March. 1737, Captain Nelson rissr-
tied the truly amiable Frances Herbert N: ..it,
widow of Dianne Nesbit, of the island of Nevis,
daughter of William Herbert, Eat Senior Jud,,e,
ant nirce to Mr. Herbert. President of that Island:
the bride was given away by Prince William Henry,
now Duke of Clarence.
The Boren: frigate being paid off at Sheerness, on
the thirtieth of November, 1787, Capsa n Nelson
retired, to enjoy the concolatioo of domestic hap-
Pitons, at the parsonage-house of Burnham Thorpe,
which his father gave him for a place of residence :
where, imitating Xt.:lop:1k» in the arrangement of
hi. little farm at Scillus, Captain Nelson passed the
intetral of peace, in ntral occupation and s• •litil de.
• tn the thirtieth of January, 179'1, a day ever to
be remember. I in our annals, and which the page of
N Iv illlistor y oe.ll now mark with more peculiar re+
gar& this d.stinguished charafter again came for-
ward, to appear with new lustre, and to arrest the
prngree of anarchy. He %AI appointed to the
et. alfatat,. 6; :2,ita-, and .IF soon placed tinder
the orders ni that grew in in. and excellent officer.
Dsr I iimd ; 'ben appointed to command in the
Me merranean.
rle unbounded confidence which the Noble Ad.
n..- I always reposed in Captain Nelson, manifests
the high opinion which Lord Hood then entertained
u 1.3 ois courage and ability to execute the ardor us
a!zisier, with which he was entrusted: it batteries
RC be attacked ;if ships seer- to toe cut nut of
th ~-hours ;if. i : tardom landing of troops
was to be effeSsd, or d.ficstlt passages :o be ex-
plored; we iavariatily find li,try.tio Nelsa,h foremost
on etch occasion, ••:• ..s brave Of leers, and his
gallant crew ef the nynt-ninon.
At Toulon, and the celebrated vianries achieve!
at Rani* and Calri, Lord Hood bore ample testis
mony to the skill and unremitting exertions of
Captain Nelson : during the memorable siege of
345.14, he superintended the disembarkation of
troops an stores.
A. ,he %ie.!". of Calvi (July and August 1794) he
also distinguished himself in a conspicuous manneri
when commanding an advanced battery of seamen
on shore; and Lord Hood, on that occasion, as on
every other. gave him a just tribute of applettect
It was at this siege, that Captain Nelson hot the)
sight of his right eye, by a shot from the enemy'l
battery striking the upper part of that which he
commanded ; and driving. with prodigious force,
some particles of sand against his face.
Lord Hood having left the Mediterranean in the
month of Oetober, 1791; Admiral (now Lord)
i Hotham, en whom the command devolved, honour-
ed Captain Nelson with equal confidence: he again,
distinguished himself in the affirms with the French .
fleet of the thirteenth and fourteenth of March, and
also on the fairteenth of July, 1795. Captain Nel- :
son was afterwards appointed by Admiral Hotharn
to co-operate with the Austrian General, De Vins, at
Vado Bay, on the coast of Genoa ; in which service
he continued during the whole time Admiral Ho-
them retained the command, until the month of
November; when the latter was superseded by Sir
John Jervis. In April, 1796, the Commander in
Chief so (much approved of Captain Nelson's cost.
daft, that he was direßed to wear a distinguishing
pendant; and in May he was removed fram lii, old
and favourite ship the Aram-wee, to the Captain,
74 guar ; after having Wiriest the former abort, in
every kind of service, during three years and an
half : on the eleventh of August a Captain was ap.
pointed under him.
From the mon-h of April, until Ottober, 1795,
Commodore Nelson was constantly employed in the
most arduous' service, vie. the blockade of Leghors,
the taking of Por: Forago, with the Island of C.l.
prea ; and. lastly, in the evacuation of /Lana :
whence having convoyed the troops in safety to
Porto Ferrajo, he joined the Admiral in St. Fitment°
Bay, and proceeded with him to Gibraltar.
During the month of December, 1796, Commo-
dore Nelson hoisted his broad pendant ou board to
Nome-re frigate, Captain George Cot:kburne, and
was dispatched with that ship, and La Blanche, t.
Porto Ferrajn, to bring the naval stores left there to
Gibraltar ; which the fleet at that time much want •
ed. On the pass tge thither, in the nigh: of the
nineteenth of December. 1796, the Commodore fell
in with two Spanish frigates; he immediately a:-
tacked the ship which carried the poop-light, and
directed the Blanche to bear down to e ..gage t!
other 4, at forty minutes past ten at night. the Ccm-
modore brought his ship to close anion, which con-
tinued, without intermission, uattl half past one ,