YEAR.

MONTH.

FACTS.

1800, continued............... REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE Red.

17th...............Left Leghorn, on his way to England, with Sir William and Lady Hamilton.

19th....... 24th.......

....Arrival at Florence.

.At Ancona, embarked on board a Russian
Frigate for Trieste.

August 9th...............At Trieste.

to

September 25th

26th......Left Vienna.

29th......At Prague, and thence proceeded to Magdeburg and Hamburgh.

November 6th ......Landed at Yarmouth.

8th

to

December 15th

{

In London. On the 10th, (Lord Mayor's Day,)

he dined with the Lord Mayor, and received
the Sword voted to him by the City of Lon-
don. On the 20th, he took his Seat in the
House of Lords.

20th ...... Visited Salisbury, Fonthill, &c.
29th......Returned to London.

1801. January 1st............Promoted to be VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE,

--

and was soon after ordered to hoist his Flag in the San Josef at Plymouth, in the Channel Fleet, under Earl St. Vincent.

13th .........Finally separated from Lady Nelson, and left London for Plymouth.

17th .........Hoisted his Flag in the San Josef at Ply

mouth.

21st.........At Exeter, when he received the Freedom of that City.

23rd

to 30th

February 2nd

to 19th

At Plymouth, and was admitted a Freeman of that Borough on the 24th.

In Torbay. On the 12th of February, he shifted his Flag to the Saint George; and on the 17th of that month, was ordered to place himself under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, in the Fleet destined for the Baltic; on the following day was directed to proceed to Spithead. 21st.........Arrived in the Saint George at Spithead, and on the 23rd, proceeded, on leave for three days, to London.

March 2nd ............Sailed from Spithead for Yarmouth

1801, continued

...

March 6th

1

to

11th

FACTS.

.VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, Second in Com-
mand in the Baltic.

At Yarmouth, where he joined Admiral Sir
Hyde Parker.

12th............Sailed with the Fleet, under Admiral Sir
Hyde Parker for the Baltic.

18th............Reached the Naze.

19th............Off the Scaw.

24th
26th

...Off Elsineur.

.........Sailed for the Great Belt; but returned in the evening to the anchorage off Elsineur. 29th............Shifted his Flag from the Saint George to the

Elephant.

30th............Proceeded with the Fleet through the Sound, and about noon, anchored between the Island of Huen and Copenhagen.

April 1st...............The Fleet removed to an anchorage within two miles of Copenhagen; and at one P.M. the Division of Ships placed under his command weighed, and in the evening anchored off Draco.

2nd
3rd............
9th.........
19th

27th
to

May 6th

7th

...BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN.

.Rehoisted his Flag on board the Saint George.
.Signed an Armistice with Denmark.
.Went in a Boat from the Saint George in

Copenhagen Roads to the Fleet under Sir
Hyde Parker, which had sailed in pursuit
of the Swedish Squadron; was soon after
followed by his own Ship, the Saint George,
and proceeded in her, with the Fleet, to
Carlscrona.

In Kioge Bay. On the 5th of May, he received his appointment as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF in the Baltic, dated on the 21st of April. .............Sailed from Kioge Bay.

11th ............At the entrance of the Gulf of Finland.

17th............Sailed from Revel, and applied to be superseded in the command, in consequence of ill health.

19th

22nd

...Off Gothland.

...Created VISCOUNT NELSON OF THE NILE AND OF BURNHAM THORPE in the County of Norfolk.

4th

to 18th

19th

July 1st ......

2nd
to

....VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE.

.Off Rostock.

In Kioge Bay. On the 14th of June he Invested Rear-Admiral Graves with the Ensigns of the Order of the Bath, on board the St. George.

.........Resigned the command of the Baltic Fleet, and sailed in the Kite Brig for England.

.....Arrived at Yarmouth.

In London. On the 24th of July he was appointed COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of a Squadron employed between Orfordness and Beachy Head, to prevent an Invasion. 27th...............Hoisted his Flag on board L'Unité at Sheer

26th

29th.........

August 2nd

to

December 31st

ness.

.Hoisted his Flag on board the Leyden in the
Downs.

At divers places on his Station, with his Flag
in the Medusa, Captain John Gore. On
the 16th of August, he made an attack on
the Enemy's Flotilla at Boulogne, without
success. On the 18th of August was created
BARON NELSON OF THE NILE AND OF
HILBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY of Norfolk,
with special remainders. About the 27th
of August he shifted his Flag to the
Amazon, Captain Samuel Sutton. On the
22nd of October he proceeded to Merton
on leave of absence, and on the 29th of that
month, took his Seat in the House of Lords
as a Viscount.

LETTER S.

1799-ET. 40.

TO CAPTAIN COCKBURN, H.M. SHIP LA MINERVE.

[Order-Book.]

The Samuel and Jane Transport, at Palermo, 3rd September,' 1799. You are hereby required and directed to proceed in His Majesty's Ship, under your command, to Gibraltar, and put yourself under the command of Rear-Admiral Duckworth, or the senior Officer at that place, following his orders for your further proceedings. But should it so happen that you are the senior Officer at that place, you will use your endeavours to succour the Garrison, and yield them every assistance in your power to procure supplies and keep the Ports on the coast of Barbary open, and protect the trade in the Gut from the Enemy's gun-boats, &c.

NELSON.

TO THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS AT GIBRALTAR AND OFF CADIZ.

[Letter-Book.]

Palermo, 4th September, 1799.

The Minerve I consider as such an active Ship, and most particularly her Captain, that I must desire that on no account you will send her off the limits of the Mediterranean station: no one is more equal to watch Cadiz, until an equal force may get there, than Captain Cockburn. I am, &c.

NELSON.

1 On this day, being the anniversary of that on which the news of the Battle of the Nile reached Naples, a magnificent entertainment was given at Palermo, in honour of Nelson and his companions, in the name of the young Prince Leopold.