The greater number of the men returned missing had gone to the rear with wounded officers and soldiers, and joined afterwards. The officers are supposed killed.
BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Blank in MS.
[2] Lord Grenville.
[3] Mr. Canning seems to allude especially to the course of Mr. Sheridan at the time of the Mutiny of the Nore.
[4] There is no imputation meant against the character of this gentleman on the supposition of his being a dissenter of the Church of England; illiberal, indeed, would be remark of this kind to infer any kind of reproach; but when a panegyrick is derived from party, some partiality may very naturally be suspected.
[5] Respecting the battle at Ulm.
[6] Nelson’s funeral, on January 7, 1806, at St. Paul’s.
[7] It is now generally near the quarter-deck hatchway.