THE

DISPATCHES AND LETTERS

VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON

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WITH NOTES BY

SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS , G.C.M.G.

“ The Nation expected, and was entitled to expect, that while Cities vied with each otherin consecrating Statues in marble and brass to the memory of our Nelson , a Literary Monu-ment would be erected, which should record his deeds for the immortal honour of his ownCountry, and the admiration of the rest of the World.” —Quarterly Review .

THE FIRST VOLUME1777 to 1794 .

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