ned by him; and condemned,
without knowing I was before him. The treasury, it is true, paid
part of the expence, but that does not make the judge's conduct
less grievous." In all this, there is much to regret; but the judge
could scarcely entertain the smallest personal prejudice against
our hero, though he might appear too favourable to the frauds of
neutral powers from even a laudable anxiety to prevent any national
embroilment. Nelson, on the spot, could better penetrate their
artifices, than the judge on his distant bench of justice; and,
fearing nothing, he spurned at every law subtlety which he
perceived sanctioning fraud, to the present injury of his king, his
country, and their brave defenders. It was, ever, far less for
himself, than for others, that he was solicitous. In this very
letter to Earl Spencer, he thus concludes--"I am looking,
anxiously, for the Foudroyant; and, also, for your lordship's
goodness to my son-in-law: I, of course, wish he had a good
frigate."

Three days after, in another letter to Earl Spencer, the benignity of
his excellent heart pleads powerfully for a son of the late Captain
Faddy. It's perusal cannot fail to gratify every feeling reader.

"Vanguard,
at Sea,
19th Sept. 1798.

"MY LORD,

"Captain Faddy, of the marines, who was killed on board the
Vanguard, has a family of small children: his eldest son is now on
board this ship, only fourteen years of age. I beg to solicit your
lordship for a commission in the marines for him. I understand, it
has been done; and the youth permitted to remain at school, till of
a proper age to join the corps. If, however, this should, in the
present instance, be thought wrong, may I request that his name may
stand as an eleve of the Admiralty, and Mrs. Faddy acquainted of
it; which must give her some relief, under her present misfortune.

"Ever your lordship's most obedient servant,

"Horatio Nelson."

With his mind thus humanely and diligently employed, amidst the toil and
bustle inseparable from an active naval commander, on the 22d, early in
the morning, the hero approached within view of Naples. No sooner was
the Vanguard perceived, at the distance of several leagues, than upwards
of five hundred boats and pleasure-barges, having been apprised of his
coming, by the previous arriva