try need their service.

To the Right Honourable Rear-Admiral the Earl of Northesk, to
the captains, officers, and seamen, and to the officers,
non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Royal Marines, I
beg to give my sincere and hearty thanks for their highly
meritorious conduct, both in the action and in their zeal and
activity in bringing the captured ships out from the perilous
situation in which they were, after their surrender, among the
shoals of Trafalgar in boisterous weather. And I desire that the
respective captains will be pleased to communicate to the
officers, seamen, and Royal Marines, this public testimony of my
high approbation of their conduct, and my thanks for it.

(_Signed_) C. COLLINGWOOD.

To the Right Honourable Rear-Admiral
the Earl of Northesk,
and the respective Captains and
Commanders.

GENERAL ORDER.

The Almighty God, whose arm is strength, having of his great
mercy been pleased to crown the exertions of his Majesty's
fleet with success, in giving them a complete victory over
their enemies, on the 21st of this month; and that all praise
and thanksgiving may be offered up to the throne of grace, for
the great benefit to our country and to mankind, I have thought
it proper that a day should be appointed of general humiliation
before God, and thanksgiving for his merciful goodness,
imploring forgiveness of sins, a continuation of his divine
mercy, and his constant aid to us, in defence of our country's
liberties and laws, and without which the utmost efforts of man
are nought; and therefore that [blank] be appointed for this
holy purpose.

Given on board the "Euryalus," off Cape Trafalgar,
October 22, 1805.
(_Signed_) C. COLLINGWOOD

To the respective Captains and Commanders.

N.B.--The fleet having been dispersed by a gale of wind, no day
has yet been able to be appointed for the above purpose.

Against the desire of his dead comrade, Collingwood carried into
practice his own sound and masterful judgment not to anchor either his
conquests or any of his own vessels on a lee ironbound shore. Even had
his ground tackle been sound and intact, which it was not, and the
holding ground good instead of bad, he acted in a seamanlike manner by
holding steadfastly to the sound sailor tradition always to keep the
gate open for drift, to avoid be