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PREFACE.

the Editor with these Letters, he had the goodness alsoto lend him his MS. collections for that Memoir.

To the Earl of Minto, G.C.B., for a series of importantLetters to his distinguished father; to his friend ViscountStrangford, G.C.B, as well for Letters addressed to hisLordship as for invaluable assistance; to Viscount Mel­ ville , K.T; to Lord Bexley ; to the Right HonourableSir George Rose, G.C.H.; to Rear Admiral Lord Rad-stock, C.B.; to the Honourable Miss Addington, theHonourable and Very Reverend Dr. Pellew, Dean ofNorwich, and Haviland, John Addington , Esq., Trus-tees of the Papers of the late Lord Viscount Sid-moutli, for many Letters addressed to his Lordship;to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart.,K.C.B.; to Sir William Keith Ball, Bart., for mostvaluable Letters to his father, the late Rear AdmiralSir Alexander Ball, Bart., the intimate friend of Nelson ;to Captain Sir William Hoste , Bart.; to Rear-AdmiralSykes; to Commodore Sir Francis Collier, C.B., K.C.H.;to the Reverend Richard Keats, for Letters to his lateUncle, the gallant Admiral Sir Richard Keats, G.C.B.:to William Henry Whitehead, Esq.; to Dr. LambtonEste; to Dawson Turner , Esq., F’.R.S., of Yarmouth;to Josiah French, Esq., of Windsor; to Captain JamesHope, R.N.; to Commander Thomas Pitt Robinson,R.N.; to William Upcott , Esq.; to John Luxford,Esq.; to William Masters Smith, Esq.; to WilliamLong, Esq., of Bath ; to Henry William Johns, Esq., ofBlandford; to James Pulman, Esq., Richmond Herald;to Albert William Woods, Esq., Lancaster Herald; toCaptain Ives Sutton, Esq., for several Letters to his late