e sum of four thousand pounds; appointing Lady Hamilton her
sole guardian, until she shall have arrived at the age of eighteen
years: the interest of the said four thousand pounds to be paid to Lady
Hamilton for her education and maintenance. "This request of
guardianship," his lordship expressly says, "I earnestly make of Lady
Hamilton; knowing that she will educate my adopted child in the paths
of religion and virtue, and give her those accomplishments which so
touch adorn herself: and, I hope, make her a fit wife for my dear
nephew, Horatio Nelson; who I wish to marry her, if he proves worthy, in
Lady Hamilton's estimation, of such a treasure as I am sure she will
be."

In another codicil, dated on board the Victory, at sea, the 19th of
February 1804, his lordship gives and bequeaths to Lady Hamilton five
hundred pounds a year, charged on the Bronte estate; and, the 7th of
April following, leaves an annuity of one hundred pounds, payable
quarterly, to poor blind Mrs. Nelson, the relict of his late brother
Maurice: without noticing, in either of these codicils, his adopted
daughter, Miss Horatia. On the 19th of December, however, in the same
year, by a fifth codicil, executed on board the Victory, in the Gulph of
Palma, Sardinia, his lordship confirms anew his legacy to Lady Hamilton,
and to his adopted daughter: and farther gives to her ladyship two
thousand pounds; to his secretary, John Scott, Esq. one hundred pounds,
to buy a ring, or some token of his remembrance; and two hundred pounds
to his friend, the Reverend Alexander Scott, then commonly called Dr.
Scott, by way of distinction from John Scott, Esq. his lordship's
secretary, and who has since taken his doctor's degree in the university
of Cambridge. This distinguished legacy, and the still more
distinguished words in which it is bequeathed--not my foreign secretary,
chaplain, &c. but "my friend, the Reverend Alexander Scott,"--must ever
bear ample testimony of a regard, even at that period, which does Dr.
Scott so much substantial honour. The foundation of this amity, like all
Lord Nelson's strongest attachments, was not merely private friendship,
and personal regard, but esteem and affection arising from the ability
and zeal of the party to assist the grand object ever uppermost in his
mind, that of accomplishing, in every possible way, by artifice opposed
to artifice, as well as arms to arms, the happiness and glory of his
king and country. Dr. Scott's se