nce of our
immortal hero's glory, which could, at length, dissipate the cloud of
prejudice, that had so long obscured, from the sincerest followers of
Mahomet, the lustre of every Christian virtue.

Even the Dowager Sultana, mother of the Grand Signior, caught the
enthusiastic admiration of our hero from her generous and illustrious
son, and sent his lordship the superb and flattering present of a very
rich diamond ornament, in the form of a rose.

No sooner were the honours conferred on our hero by the Grand Signior,
and his wish respecting the wearing them, made known to his majesty,
than the imperial desire was immediately complied with, and the
following royal grants and concessions were also published in the London
Gazette--

"The king has been graciously pleased to give, and grant, to the
Right Honourable Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of
Burnham-Thorpe in the county of Norfolk, Rear-Admiral of the Blue
Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, and K.B. in consideration of the
great zeal, courage, and perseverance, manifested by him on divers
occasions, and particularly of his able and gallant conduct in the
glorious and decisive victory obtained over the French fleet, at
the mouth of the Nile, on the 1st of August last, his royal licence
and authority, that he, and his issue, may bear the following
honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: viz. "A chief,
undulated, argent--thereon, waves of the sea; from which, a
palm-tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a
ruinous battery on the sinister; all proper." And, for his crest,
"On a naval crown, or; the chelengk, or plume of triumph, presented
to him by the Grand Signior, as a mark of his high esteem, and of
his sense of the gallant conduct of the said Horatio Baron Nelson
in the said glorious and decisive victory; with the motto--_Palmam
qui meruit ferat_:" and, to his supporters, being a sailor on the
dexter, and a lion on the sinister, the honourable augmentation
following; viz. "In the hand of the sailor, a palm branch, and
another in the paw of the lion, both proper, with the addition of a
tri-coloured flag and staff in the mouth of the latter;" which
augmentations to the supporters are to be borne by the said Horatio
Nelson, and by those to whom the said dignity shall descend in
virtue of his majesty's letters pa