Part 28

1805. On 13th June sails for Europe in search of the elusive French fleet.

1805. On 18th July joins Collingwood off Cadiz.

1805. On 15th August joins Cornwallis off Brest.

1805. On 18th August arrived at Spithead; joins Lady Hamilton and his little girl Horatia at Merton.

1805. On 13th September having heard from Captain Blackwood, who visited him at Merton, that the French fleet were at Cadiz, he prepares to leave Merton.

1805. On 15th September joins the Victory and sails from Spithead.

1805. On 25th September joins British fleet off Cadiz.

1805. On 21st October, BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR and death of Nelson.

1806. On 9th January buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

INDEX

Aboukir Bay, battle of (see Nile, battle of the) Addington, Charles, 104 Alexander of Russia, 310, 321, 322 Arethusa, The (poem), 352 Armada, Spanish, 39 et seq., 43, 59 Asquith, H.H., 297, 303 Astley, Sir Jacob, 131, 134

Balfour, A.J., 303 Ball, Captain, 153, 154, 158, 160 Barham, Lord, 215 Bathurst, Lord, 295 Beatty, Admiral, 64 Bendero, Don Pedro, 47 Beresford, Lord Charles, 52 Bernsdorf, Count, 320 Berry, Captain. 66 Bertheur, General, 308 Blackett, Mr., 262 Blackwood, Captain, 210, 232, 235, 236, 237 Blake, Admiral, 134 Bonaparte, Caroline, 292 Bonaparte, Elisa, 292 Bonaparte, Jerome, 292 Bonaparte, Joseph, 144, 169, 292 Bonaparte, Louis, 292 Bonaparte, Napoleon (see Napoleon) Bonaparte, Pauline, 293 Boulogne, battle of (sea song), 343 Brereton, General, 198, 199, 203, 207 Burleigh, Cecil, Lord (see Cecil) Byng, Admiral Sir John, 161, 267

Cadiz, Drake's attacks on, 32, 39, 58 Cadogan, Mrs., 210 Calais, Armada at, 41 Calder, Sir Robert, 206, 208, 222 et seq., 267, 268 Calvi, siege of, 64 Campbell, Sir John, 108 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 301 Canning, 180 Capua, siege of, 139 Carlile, Christopher, 48, 51, 54 Carlscrona, Hyde Parker's departure to, 95 Carlyle, Thomas, 69, 78 Caroline (see Naples, Queen of) Carraciolli, Prince, 118 et seq., 161, 279 Carribean Sea, Drake visits, 54 Carthagena, Drake's attacks on, 32, 54 Castlereagh, Lord, 180, 211, 295, 301, 303, 321 Caulaincourt, 310 Cecil, Lord, of Burleigh, 27, 32, 44, 58 Champernowne, Sir Arthur, 32 Championnet, General, 147 Cobham, Thomas, 32 Collingwood, Admiral Lord, 31, 63, 64, 83, 84, 134, 193, 200, 203, 204, 210, 229, 235, 237, 238, 243, 245 et seq., 257 et seq. Columbus, Christopher, 51, 53 Columbus, Diego, 51 Copenhagen, battle of, 89, 91 Copenhagen, battle of (sea-song), 340 Copenhagen (poem), 354 Corday, Charlotte, 141 Corunna, Drake's attack on, 39 Croker, J.W., 115 Cromwell, Oliver, 130, 133, 134, 237

Danton, 141 Davis, Sir John, 17 Death of Nelson (poem), 360 Denmark, Prince Regent of, 320, 321 Disraeli, 302 Domingo, San (see San Domingo) Dominica, Drake's arrival at, 50 Doughty, Thomas, 24, 38 Drake, Sir Francis-- as prototype, 17 and Panama, 18, 56 and Elizabeth, 20, 21, 22, 23, 43 and War Fund, 20 Portuguese Expedition, 20 death at Puerto Bello, 21, 60 on Pelican, 22, 43 and Doughty, 24, 38 and discipline, 24, 38 at Cadiz, 32, 39, 58 at Carthagena, 32, 54 at Corunna, 39 West Indian Expedition, 44 at Vigo, 47, 48 and Spanish Gold Fleet, 49 at Santiago, 49, 50 at Dominica, 50 at San Domingo, 51, 53 at Bahamas, 57 rescues Roanoke settlers, 57, 58 connection with East India Company, 59 Newbolt's poem on, 60 and Fleet Tradition, 63 a religious man, 134 Nelson compared with, 180 "Drake's Drum" (poem), quotation from, 60 Dresden, Electress of, 83 Dropmore manuscript, 179 Dumanoir, 244, 245, 255

East India Company, 59 Edward VII of England, 82 Electress of Dresden, 83 Elizabeth of England, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 34, 35, 43, 44 Elliot, Sir George, 122, 123 Emma, Lady Hamilton, 65, 73 et seq., 95, 97, 98 et seq., 118, 119, 120 et seq., 143, 149, 159, 160, 161, 215, 216, 226, 243 d'Enghien, Duc, 268, 276 et seq. Erskine, Sir James, 147

Featherstonehaugh, Sir Henry, 73 Fisher, Admiral Lord, 64, 95, 178, 180 Fitzwilliam, George, 26 Foote, Captain, 280, 281, 282 Fortescue's Dropmore MS., 179 Fox, Charles James, 282, 290, 301, 317, 318, 326, 327, 330 Francis Joseph of Austria, 312 Franklin, Benjamin, 329 Fremantle, Admiral, 208 Frobisher, Martin, 17, 40, 63, 134

George III of England, 81, 93, 296, 303, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331 George, Prince Regent (afterwards George IV), 87, 88, 96 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 17 "Give it to him, Charley!" (sea-song), 349 Gladstone, W.E., 301, 302 Goethe (on beauty of Lady Hamilton), 76 Graham, James, 73 Graves, Rear-Admiral, 92 Gravina, Admiral, 244 Greville, Charles, 73, 74, 80, 122 Grey, Earl, 301 Grey, Sir Edward, 297 "Gulliver's Travels," 318

Hallowell, Captain, 146, 218 Hamilton, Sir William, 65, 74, 76, 88, 100 et seq., 122 Hamilton, Lady (see Emma, Lady Hamilton) Hardy, Captain (of the Victory), 92, 119, 225, 232, 235, 240, 242, 243, 251 Hart, Emily (afterwards Lady Hamilton), 73 Hawkins, Sir John, 17, 20, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 40, 63, 134 Heine, Heinrich, anecdote of, 311 Hood, Admiral, 72 Horatia (Nelson's daughter), 84, 87, 110 et seq., 219, 227, 243 Hotham, Admiral, 118 Howard, Admiral Lord, 17, 40

Inquisition, Spanish, 17, 22, 23, 34, 37

Jackson, Mr. (British representative to Denmark), 320, 324 Jellicoe, Admiral, 64 Jervis, Admiral (see St. Vincent, Admiral Lord) Joseph of Austria (see Francis Joseph of Austria) Joseph Bonaparte (see Bonaparte, Joseph)

Keats, Captain, 210 Keith, Lord, 139, 158, 160, 162 Kitchener, Lord, 178

Leslie, General, 130, 134 Louis XVIII of France, 294 Louis Philippe of France, 314 Louis, Captain, 146, 147 Lowe, Sir Hudson, 295 Lyon, Amy (afterwards Emma, Lady Hamilton), 73

Mack, General, 147 Malmesbury, Lady, 122 Malmesbury, Lord, 325 Marat, 141 Marengo, battle of, 162 Maria Carolina (see Naples, Queen of) Marie Louise of Austria, 107, 170 Marlborough, Duke of, 104, 105 Marmont, General, 308 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, 26 Mary Tudor, Queen of England, 35 Medina-Sidonia, Duke of, 19, 40, 41 Melbourne, Lord, 107 Meneval, Baron de, 171 Milas, General, 162 Minto, Lord, 103, 104, 155, 159, 209, 210, 217 Moreau, 276 Mulgrave, Lord, 328 Müller (Swiss historian), 287 Murat, 145, 169

Naples, Ferdinand, King of, 120, 128, 129, 140, 144, 145, 146, 147, 163 et seq. Naples, Maria Carolina, Queen of, 77, 79, 118, 129, 148, 162, 163 et seq., 260 Napoleon Bonaparte-- and Prussianism, 69, 298 aphorisms, 71, 131, 134, 205, 291, 314 comparison with Nelson, 94 and Marie Louise, 107, 170 his opinion of Nelson, 118 his opinion of Wellington, 117 Cromwell compared with, 133 and the French fleet, 191 and Villeneuve, 199, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268 and Madame Walewska, 217 comparison of his love letters with Nelson's, 218 his "Farewell to France" (poem), 274 as a statesman, 132, 133, 275 and plots against his life, 276 and Pitt, 287 et seq., 304 Müller's opinion of, 287 Wieland's opinion of, 288 and his family, 292 his return from Elba, 294 his letter to George III, 296 his son's death, 308 and Alexander of Russia, 310 and Treaty of Tilsit, 310 compared with William II of Germany, 313 contemporaneous testimony, 315 et seq. Neipperg, Count, 170 Nelson, Rev. Edmund, 64 Nelson, Horatia (see Horatia) Nelson, Horatio, Admiral Lord-- and contemporary admiration, 31 and Fleet Tradition, 63 joins Raisonable, 64 joins Triumph, 64 joins Agamemnon, 64 loses right eye at siege of Calvi, 64 loses right arm at Santa Cruz, 65 created K.C.B., 65 at the court of Naples, 65, 76 et seq., 141 et seq., 163 et seq. at the Nile, 66 created Baron, 72 and gambling scandal, 80, 150 returns home after Nile, 81 and Lady Hamilton, 65, 73, 76 et seq., 95, 97, 98 et seq., 159, 210 et seq., 215, 216, 228, 231 at battle of Copenhagen, 91, compared with Napoleon, 94, 218 joins St. George, 95 returns home in Kite, 98 at Merton, 100, 210 et seq. letter to his niece, 111 incident of gipsy's prediction, 114 and Carraciolli, 118 et seq., 279 hatred of the French, 135, 173 at Toulon, 136 at Palermo, 149 and starvation of Neapolitans, 151 and "cracking on," 155 as "Duke of Thunder," 167, 172 homecoming via Magdeburg and Hamburg, 176 and Ministers of State, 139, 174, 180 et seq., 210 et seq. and privateering, 181 sails to West Indies, 197 returns to England, 207 gift of coffin to, 218 joins Victory, 220 and Calder, 221 et seq. at Trafalgar, 225 el seq. last letters, 226, 228, 231 last prayer before battle, 231 death in action, 240, 242 et seq. the nation's sorrow, 256 et seq. Collingwood, compared with, 261 chronological data, 363 Nelson and Collingwood (sea-song), 347 Nelson, Lady, 78, 84, 85, 86, 88 Newbolt, Sir H., 60 Nile, Battle of the, 66 et seq. Nile, Battle of the (sea-song), 337 North, Lord, 329 Norton, Hon. Mrs., 108

O'Meara, Dr., 265, 295 Oquendo, 42 Orange, William the Silent, Prince of, 34 Orde, Sir John, 184, 185, 195, 196, 203

Pahlen, Count, 97 Parker, Sir Hyde, 89, 90, 91, 92, 184 Parma, Duke of, 42 Pasco, Yeoman of Signals, 235 Paul of Russia, 97 Philip of Spain, 17, 18, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42 Pichegru, 276 Pitt, William, 134, 213, 287, 289, 290, 296, 298, 299, 301, 303, 344, 318, 326, 327 Poems, 60, 274, 337 Pole, Sir Charles, 98

Radstock, Lord, 213, 214, 259 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 57 Recaldo, 42 Riou, Captain, 91 Roanoke, settlers of, rescue by Drake, 57, 58 Robespierre, 141 Rome, King of, 308 Romney, George, 73 Rosebery, Lord, 301 Rotherham, Captain, 237, 238 Ruffo, Cardinal, 286

Salisbury, Lord, 302 San Domingo, Drake's attack on, 32, 51, 53 San Philip, 58 Santa Cruz, action at, 65 Santa Cruz, Admiral, 18, 37, 39, 41 Santiago, Drake's attack on, 49, 50 Sardanapalus, 141 Scott, Dr., 243 Sea Songs, 333 Seymour, Admiral Lord, 40 Sidmouth, Lord, 221 Smith, Sir Sydney, 174 Southey, Robert, 128, 174 Strachan, Sir Richard, 245, 255 St. George, Mrs., 123 St. Vincent, battle of Cape, 65 St. Vincent, Earl, 63, 64, 65, 78, 92, 98, 174, 184, 185, 234 Suckling, Captain Maurice, 64