My dear Sir James,
I congratulate you most heartily on your having had another opportunity of displaying your merit, and on the share which you bore in the most brilliant action that ever was achieved.
I hope that I need not assure you how much I have shared with your friends the satisfaction your conduct has given them; the reward for which, I hope, you will long enjoy in the approbation of the whole world, which is now bestowed upon you.
I am, my dear Sir James,
Most truly and faithfully yours,
H. Seymour.
Admiralty, March 10th, 1797.
Early in March the Orion was again ready for active service; and the following letter gives an account of the departure of Sir James Saumarez with Commodore Nelson on a cruize.
Orion, off the Tagus, 6th March 1797.
My dear Richard,