e; and _curse_
them who _curse_ her, and Heaven _bless_ them who _bless_ her! Dear
innocent! she can have injured no one.

I am glad to hear, that she is attached to you; and, if she takes
after her parents, so she will, to those who are kind to her.

I am, ever, dear Charlotte, your affectionate uncle,

NELSON & BRONTE.

LETTERS

FROM

ALEXANDER DAVISON, ESQ.

TO

LADY HAMILTON.

LETTERS OF ALEX. DAVISON, ESQ. &c.

I.

[1804.]

MY DEAR MADAM,

I have, equally with yourself, felt extremely uneasy all night,
thinking on _the_ letter, which is a very serious one; and, until we
receive our next dispatches, I shall still feel every day more and
more anxious.

I rely on that kind Providence, which has hitherto sheltered him under
every danger, upon the occasion.

He was on the eve of engaging, for protection--and preservation--It
is, indeed, an anxious moment!

I have long thought, a plan was in agitation regarding the Toulon
fleet being given up; but, whether it was in contemplation at the
period the last letter was written, I know not. I am rather disposed
to think otherwise.

The next packet will explain the whole; and, I trust, will relieve our
minds of that burden, hardly supportable at present.

I shall, this evening, go quietly into the country, and return to town
about noon to-morrow: as I require air, and a little relaxation; for I
am, actually, overpowered with business.

Your's, most truly,
ALEX. DAVISON.
Thursday Morning.

II.

[1804,]

MY DEAR MADAM,

Yesterday, I wrote to you just in time to save the post: but, whether
that letter, or even this, reach you, I have my doubts--if they do
not, you have only yourself to blame; for I cannot, for the soul of
me, make out the name of the place. You have been in such a hurry,
when writing it, that it really is not legible; and I do not
sufficiently know Norfolk, to guess at it.

I did yesterday, as I shall this--imitate your writing, leaving it to
the Post-Office gentlemen to find it out.

I acquainted you, that I would take care to obey your wishes, and hold
back your check on Coutts and Co. till such time as it would be quite
convenient to yourself, and you tell me to send it for payment.

Your mind may be perfectly at ease on that score: as, indeed, it may
in every thing in which you have to do with me--though we do, now and
then, differ a little in trifles; but, not in essentials: