remain another station," he writes elsewhere.

[12] Lady Nelson's tombstone in Littleham Churchyard, Exmouth, reads that
she died May 6, 1831, "aged 73." She would then have been born before May
6, 1758. Nicolas (vol. i. p. 217) says that she died May 4, 1831, aged 68,
but does not mention his authority.

[13] Prior to May, 1785, the only stops of the "Boreas" at Nevis were
January 6-8, February 1-4, and March 11-15. (Boreas's Log in Nicolas's
Letters and Despatches of Lord Nelson, vol. vii. Addenda, pp. viii, ix.)

[14] The author is satisfied, from casual expressions in Nelson's letters
to Lady Hamilton, that his famous two years' confinement to the ship,
1803-1805, and, to a less extent, the similar seclusion practised in the
Baltic and the Downs, proceeded, in large part at least, from a romantic
and chivalrous resolve to leave no room for doubt, in the mind of Lady
Hamilton or of the world, that he was entirely faithful to her.

[15] The author has italicized these words because they accurately express
the just penalty that military law would have required of Nelson, had he
not shown adequate grounds for his disobedience. They measure, therefore,
the responsibility he shouldered, and the reward he deserved.

[16] Sir Harris Nicolas (Nelson's Despatches and Letters, vol. i. p. 217)
gives March 12 as the day of the wedding, upon the ground of a letter of
Lady Nelson's. Her mention of the date is, however, rather casual; and
March 11 is given in the parish register of the church in Nevis.

[17] The same symptom will be noted in the anxious pursuit of Villeneuve to
the West Indies in 1805, where he grew better, although for some months he