Why had the watch-dog left his post?
We may infer from the circumstance of his Lordship's coming home, that information had reached him of the Combined Squadron having got into Ferrol.
He dared say they had. Where was the man should have stopped them?
The Times, August 20.
Lord Nelson arrived at his seat at Merton in Surrey yesterday….
O, the Gentleman! the Gentleman! It was all true then!…
and will most probably attend at the Admiralty this day.
Probably attend!
And this was Nelson! his Nelson!
_Victory, Spithead, August 18, 1805.