for the sad thing in this country is, that although much is raised, yet very little reaches the public chest.  I will give you a fact—­When the order of Jesuits was suppressed in this country and Sicily, they possessed very large estates:  although these, with every other part of their property, were seized by the crown; yet, to this moment, not one farthing has reached the public chest.  On the contrary, some years, the pretended expence of management was more than the produce.  Taxes have been sold for sums of money; which, now, are five times more than when sold.  This, it is true, was done by viceroys, to please their distant masters.  But, I am tiring your patience.  In short, their majesties look to us for every succour; and, without it, they are undone.

     “I have wrote to the Turkish and Russian admirals, and shall take
     care to keep on the very best footing with all the allied powers.

     “Believe me, your lordship’s most obedient and obliged servant,

     “Nelson.”

At this Neapolitan review, a curious circumstance is said to have occurred.  By some mistake of General Mack’s, in directing the operations of a feigned fight, it so happened that his own troops were completely surrounded by those of the enemy; when Lord Nelson, vexed at the unfortunate and inauspicious blunder, immediately exclaimed, to his surrounding friends—­“This fellow does not understand his business!”

It having been agreed, in a council held at the camp of St. Germaine’s, as suggested in the foregoing letter, to take possession of Leghorn, not a moment was lost, by Lord Nelson, in preparing for that expedition.  The King and Queen of Naples, affected by the very indifferent state of his lordship’s health, and fearing that the exertion might prove too much for their chief protector, wished him to remain at Naples.  When the queen, accordingly, through the medium of Lady Hamilton, advised him to send the troops; he instantly directed her to inform her majesty, that it was his custom, in order to succeed, not to say—­“Go!” but—­“Let us go!”

Such was the dispatch used on this occasion, that all the troops were embarked, and his lordship sailed from the Bay of Naples, on the 22d instant.  The Vanguard, Culloden, Minotaur, and Alliance, were the only British ships, on board of which were about two thousand seven hundred soldiers; and, in the Portuguese Principe Real, Albuquerque, and St. Sebastian, two thousand four hundred.  In all, five thousand, one hundred and twenty-three.  As it blew a strong gale all that night, and the following day, none but the British kept company with the Vanguard, which arrived in Leghorn Road on the 28th.

The ministers of their Majesties of Great Britain and of the Two Sicilies, the Honourable William Windham and the Duke Di Sangro, immediately going on board the Vanguard, and being of opinion that a summons in the name of Admiral Lord Nelson, as well as that of the Neapolitan General Naselli, would be proper, the following was instantly prepared.