OF

VICE-ADMIRAL

LORD VISCOUNT NELSON, K.B.

DUKE OF BRONTÉ, ETC. ETC. ETC.

BY

THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, F.R.S. F.S.A.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN ;

ETC. ETC. ETC.

Resplendet gloria Martis.

Armati referam vires?

Claudian de Laud. Stil.

"A spirit equal to all undertakings, and resources fitted to all occasions."

IN TWO VOLUMES,

VOL. I.

Lord Collingwood.

LONDON:

T. AND W. BOONE, 29, NEW BOND STREET.

MDCCCXLIX.

DEDICATION.

NOTICE.

SINCE the completion of the printing of this work, the country has been unhappily deprived of the services of the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty, to whom these pages are inscribed, not only with his sanction, but with the expression of the gratification he should feel in having his name connected with that of one of England's greatest Naval Heroes. The private friends of the Noble Lord have equally with the public to deplore the sudden and unexpected decease of his Lordship, which it is not too much to assume was in some measure occasioned by the great attention he had paid to the arduous duties of the office he had the honour to hold in Her Majesty's Government.

January 15th, 1849.

SAVILLE ROw, December 26, 1848.

THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW.