LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. I.

Portrait of Nelson by Leonardo Guzzardi.

Frontispiece.

Fac-simile of Lord Nelson's Autograph at various periods of his life

Fac-simile of the Autograph of the Rev. Edmund Nelson

Letter of the Queen of Naples, the Prince Leopold, and
the Princesses Christina, Amelia, and Antoinette

38

47

169

ib.

185

212

328

379

VOL. II.

Portrait of Lord Nelson after a painting by A. W. Devis
Engraving of the Danish line of defence at Copenhagen
Fac-simile of Verses written by Lord Nelson

the Autograph of William IV.

General Dumouriez

Lord Nelson's statement of his wounds
the Autograph of Charles Felix of Savoye
Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia'.

243

363

436

Portrait of Emma Lady Hamilton, after Romney
Profile of do. by Sir T. Lawrence
Fac-simile of Lord Nelson's Letter, acknowledging the receipt of one from

ERRATA AND ADDITIONS.

Vol. I. p. 153, line 29, for "It stands upon a peninsula upon," read "The city stands upon a peninsula betwixt."

157, line 15, for "Dolomien," read "Dolomieu."

189, note, line 17, for "Abercrombie," read "Abercromby."
234, note. The Sedili at Naples are stated to have been two in
number; but I learn that there were four, viz. Sedile San
Giuseppe, Sedile di Porto o Penino, Sedile di Porta Capuane,
and Sedile di Porta Nolana. Their origin is very ancient-when
the City was divided into four quarters. From the four Sedili or
Parliaments, a commission of 21 members was chosen, who
communicated with the King as a Senate. The objects of the
Assemblies were as stated in the note, but the abolition of them
by the King took place upon his return from the Congress at
Laybach.

377, line 5, for "Sorrentina," read "Sorrentino."

400, line 11, for "or," read "for."

Vol. II. p. 297, line 22 in note, for "1795," read "1793."

376, note, last line, for "Dr. Moseley," read "William Moseley." 436. The fac-simile of the autograph of Victor Emanuel has been omitted, and is therefore here given :—

F. Emanuel

539. The inscription written by R. B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P., was for the monument in Guildhall, not that in St. Paul's as stated.

LIFE OF LORD NELSON.

CHAPTER I.

1758-1784.

FROM a short AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH' printed in the third volume of the Naval Chronicle, written at Port Mahon in the month of October, 1799, and published by John McArthur, Esq. a Purser in the Navy, who had also filled the situation of Secretary to Admiral Lord Hood, we learn that HORATIO NELSON, son of Edmund and Catherine Nelson, was born September 29, 1758, in the county of Norfolk at Burnham Thorpe. Of this village the Rev. Edmund Nelson was Rector, upon the presentation of Lord Walpole.

The grandmother of Mrs. Nelson was the eldest sister of Sir Robert Walpole, and Horatio Nelson was named after his godfather the second Lord Walpole. Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas states the sponsors of Horatio to have been "Horatio second Lord Walpole of Wolterton, the Rev. Dr. Hamond and Mrs. Joyce Pyle," and he has shewn that it could not have been the first Lord Walpole, as all previous biographers have stated, that nobleman having died seventeen months before Nelson was born. The father of Mrs. Nelson was

1 Of this sketch a facsimile of the commencement is given in Clarke and McArthur's Life of Nelson, and the whole is reprinted from the original autograph in the possession of Mrs. Conway, Dr. McArthur's daughter, by Sir N. H. Nicolas in the third volume of his "Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson."

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* Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. i. p. 1. VOL. I.

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