he had been earnestely and most pathetically conjured by the queen, while taking leave of her majesty, to do every thing in his power for the promotion of the welfare of her little family; that he had, soon after, under pretence of assisting the royalists in Calabria, abandoned his sovereign, and actually joined the republicans with the force committed to his charge; he cannot be well regarded as an object entitled to any very extraordinary degree of commiseration.

On the 3d of July, Lord Nelson had the high gratification of receiving official notice of the liberal grant of ten thousand pounds, which had been unanimously voted to his lordship by the Honourable East India Company, for his services at the battle off the Nile; and his considerate regard to their interests, demonstrated by his judicious conduct immediately after that glorious event.  To the letter from Sir Stephen Lushington, Bart.  Chairman of the Court of Directors, which conveyed this agreeable information, his lordship instantly wrote the following answer.

     “Foudroyant, Naples Bay,
     3d July 1799.

     “SIR,

“I was this day honoured with your letter of May 1st, conveying to me the resolutions of the Honourable East India Company.  It is true, Sir, that I am incapable of finding words to convey my feelings, for the unprecedented honour done me by the Company.  Having, in my younger days, served in the East Indies, I am no stranger to the munificence of the Honourable Company; but this generous act of their’s to me so much surpasses all calculation of gratitude, that I have only the power of saying that I receive it with all respect.  Give me leave, Sir, to thank you for your very elegant and flattering letter, and to add, that I am, with the greatest respect, your most obliged and obedient servant,

     “Nelson.”

Nor did this generous man, for whose just praise language must ever be at a loss, rise from the table at which he had penned the above letter of thanks, till his liberal soul, invited every dear relative in the first degree to a kind participation of the bounty which he had just received; by making out drafts, of five hundred pounds each, for his venerable father—­his elder brother, Maurice Nelson, Esq. of the Navy Office—­the Reverend Dr. Nelson, the present Earl—­and his two most amiable sisters, Mrs. Bolton and Mrs. Matcham:  thus nobly disposing of a fourth part of what he had so honourably acquired, in a way which must ever reflect unfading glory on his memory, and no inconsiderable lustre on the characters of those who were thought thus uniformly entitled to the tender regards of such an exalted as well as kindred mind.  It will scarcely be supposed possible, that any human being could convert this generous token of his lordship’s affection and esteem for his family, into a cause of violent complaint.  There was one person, however, who did complain on the occasion; and that with such