Sir William Bolton is just arrived from Malta. I am preparing to send him a cruise, where he will have the best chance I can give him of making ten thousand pounds. He is a very attentive, good, young man.
I have not heard from Naples this age. I have, in fact, no small craft to send for news.
If I am soon to go home, I shall be with you before this letter.
May God bless you!
Thomson desires to be most kindly remembered to his dear wife and children. He is most sincerely attached to them; and wishes to save what he can for their benefit.
As our means of communicating are cut off, I have only to beg that you will not believe the idle rumours of battles, &c. &c. &c.
May Heavens bless you! prays, fervently, my dear Emma, ever your most faithful and affectionate
NELSON & BRONTE.
LETTER LVIII.
Victory, March 9th, 1805.