Briton.

"The thanks of your country, my lord, attend you; it's honours
await you: but, a higher praise than even these imply, is
your's--In the moment of unexampled victory, you saved your
country: in the next moment, you did still more--you exemplified
that virtue which the heathen world could not emulate; and, in the
pious--"_Non nobis Domine_!" of your modest dispatches, you have
enforced a most important truth--that the most independant
conqueror felt, in the most intoxicating point of time, the
influence and protection of Him whom our enemies, to their shame
and ruin, had foolishly and impiously defied. May that same Power,
my lord, ever protect and reward you! May it long, very long, spare
to this empire so illustrious a teacher, and so potent a champion!"

To this highly respectable address, Lord Nelson instantly replied--

"SIR,

"It is with the greatest pride, and satisfaction, that I receive,
from the honourable court, this testimony of their approbation of
my conduct: and, with this very sword,"[_Holding it up, in his only
hand_] "I hope soon to aid in reducing our implacable and
inveterate enemy to proper and due limits; without which, this
country can neither hope for, nor expect, a solid, honourable, and
permanent peace."

His lordship was highly gratified with his city reception, on this day
of annual festivity. He was ever a great friend to the grand display of
a London Lord-Mayor's shew: not on account of the pageantry and parade
of such a public spectacle; but, as he expressed himself to his friends,
for the sake of it's beneficial effects on youthful minds. It was, he
contended, a holiday without loss of time: since the hope of one day
riding in the gilt coach of the Lord Mayor, excited a laudable emulation
in the breast of every ingenuous city apprentice, which made them
afterwards apply themselves, with redoubled diligence, to the business
of their respective masters; and, by thus fixing them in industrious
habits, could not fail of proving finally advantageous to themselves.

Not only the city of London, but the whole nation, through every
gradation of rank, from the sovereign on the throne to the occupier of
the humblest hut gratefully regarded the hero of the Nile as the person
to whom they were chiefly indebted for the security and comfort they
enjoyed; and there was, perhaps, scarcely a ho