Jan (the day not yet fixed), and call at Greenwich for a moment,
just to have a melancholy sight of the coffin, &c. &c., when I
hope I shall see you.

I shall be glad to hear from you as often as you have any thing
new to communicate, and how the preparations go on. Every thing
now is in the hands of government, but, strange to tell, I have
not yet heard from the Herald's Office, whether _I_ am to attend
the procession or _not_.

Believe me,

Your much obliged humble servant,

NELSON.


The _codicil_ referred to in these letters proved to be, or at least
to include, that memorable document which the Earl suppressed, when he
produced the will, lest it should curtail his own share of the amount
of favour which a grateful country would be anxious to heap on the
representative of the departed hero. By this unworthy conduct the
fortunes of Lady Hamilton and her still surviving daughter were at
once blighted.

The Earl as tightly held all he had, as he grasped all he could
get. It was expected that he would resign his stall at Canterbury
in favour of his brother's faithful chaplain and when he "held on"
notwithstanding his peerage and riches, he was attacked in the
newspapers. The following letter is the last communication with which