JET. 25.]

LETTERS.

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TO PHILIP STEPHENS, ESQ, ADMIRALTY.

[Autograph, in the Admiralty.—Having determined to remain unemployedduring the Peace, (vide p. 77,) he resolved on going to France accompanied byhis friend Captain James Macnamara, to acquire the French language. Nothaving received an answer to this Letter, he again applied to Mr. Stephens, forleave in similar terms, in a Letter dated on the 14th of October.]

No. 3, Salisbury-street, Strand, October 8th, 1783.

Sir,

I am to request that you will be pleased to move theirLordships to grant me six months’ leave of absence, to go toLisle, in France , on my private occasions.

I am, Sir , your most humble Servant ,

Horatio Nelson .

TO PHILIP STEPHENS, ESQ., ADMIRALTY.

[Autograph, in the Admiralty.]

London , October 18th, 1783.

Sir,

Being obliged by illness to leave His Majesty’s Ship Janus ,then under my command in the West Indies , I am to requestyou will be pleased to move their Lordships that [they] willbe pleased to allow me whole Pay from my quitting the Ship ,on the 4th of September 1780, till my arrival in England, the20th of November following.

I am, Sir,

Your most humble Servant,

Horatio Nelson . 3

TO WILLIAM LOCKER , ESQ.

[ Autograph, in the Locker Papers.]

St. Omer , November 2nd, 1783.

My dear Sir,

Our travels, since we left you, have been extended to a muchgreater length than I apprehended; but I must do Captain

3 The request contained in this Letter could not he complied with ; and he wasonly allowed Half-pay from the day of his arrival in England .—Nelson Papers.

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