My Dear Biother By a liter from Lady Hamilton Ifind you are in Nafolk and by Horace's liker doce he belong Tambridge You will have hear &our arrival but I know you my like Gilter #have it under Jamboro but what is very off the beeters for going to the wut Indies and even with the anxiaty. Wie mint not talk of thir? Calders battle Imight not have so much with my Smale force of t had fell in with them you would probably fame been ford before Swishid for Stanow they meant Amake a dead set at the Victory Hardy is Farm Give My kind love & affectionate Over Your hist Dither LETTER SHOWING NELSON'S LEFT-HANDED WRITING. CHAPTER XIV. THE CHASE TO THE WEST INDIES. (1803-1805.) Rupture of the Peace of Amiens-Result of the Naval War to 1802Nelson watching Toulon-Readiness for any service-Deserters to the Spaniards-Nelson and La Touche Treville-Care for the health of the fleet-The enemy at sea-Passage of the Straits of Bonifacio .-Cruise about the Mediterranean-To Egypt and back to ToulonCampbell's information-To the West Indies after VilleneuveNelson's own account of the chase-Misled by Brereton's letterReturn towards home-The story of a privateer-Two years less ten days on board ship-Collingwood's suggestion-Joins the Channel Fleet-At Spithead Merton. HE so-called Peace of Amiens, which pitch and naval preparations." He required breathing time, and thanks to the determination of the British Cabinet, that was but short. That he did not intend it to be permanent was evident from his acts on the Continent, even whilst the negotiations for the peace were in progress, when he became Dictator of the Cisalpine Republic. When it was concluded he sent an army into Switzerland, and treated with little courtesy the mild remonstrance of the British Government. Then came the formal annexation of Piedmont to the French |