FOOTNOTES

[1] Robert Browning.

[2] The Report is given in full in Laughton’s edition of “Nelson’s Letters and Despatches,” pp. 409–11. The editor discovered it in the Record Office, Admiral’s Despatches, Mediterranean, xxxi. 272.

[3] See lines on [page opposite].

[4] A Chippendale arm-chair, which was given to Nelson by his great grandfather, was presented by the boy to Mrs Luckins, his nurse, when he left home to join the Navy. It appeared in an auction room so recently as 1908.

[5] In other words, tow the vessels.

[6] Ships of war sent to accompany merchantmen during hostilities so as to protect them from the enemy.

[7] A private vessel commissioned to attack and capture the vessels of an enemy.

[8] See post, Chapter xix.