[66] This incidental remark may be noted, as bearing upon the statement, now rejected, that his orders were put on especially for battle.
[67] There is here no mention of smoking; nor has any allusion to it, or to tobacco, caught the author's eye in Nelson's letters.
[68] Dr. Beatty's Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson. Nicolas, vol. vii. p. 259.
[69] Sir William Hotham.
[70] Many of these details are taken with little alteration from the "Life of Rev. A.J. Scott."
[71] Memoir of Sir Thomas Hardy, in Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Nelson vol. iii. p. 234.
[72] Hillyar was then engaged to a lady in Malta.
[73] As Lady Nelson's first marriage was in 1779, Josiah Nisbet could not have been eighteen when made a commander, in 1797.
[74] Phillimore's "The Last of Nelson's Captains," p. 146.
[75] Flag-officers had a share in all prizes taken by vessels of their squadrons.