If this was so Nelson may well have read it, but I have not been able to find a copy of the translation either in the British Museum or elsewhere.
[8] Ross, _Memoir of Saumarez_, i.

212.
[9] Laughton, _Nelson's Letters and Despatches_, 150.
[10] No.

182 as it stood in the signal book meant, Ships before in tow to proceed to port.No.183.When at anchor to veer to twice the length of cable.No.16.Secret instructions to be opened.
[11] It was in the handwriting, Nicolas says, of Edward Hawke Locker, Esq., the naval biographer and originator of the naval picture gallery at Greenwich.

He endorsed it, 'Copy of a paper communicated to me by Sir Richard Keats, and allowed by him to be transcribed by me, 1st October, 1829.' [12] It was certainly not Keats himself, though afterwards Nelson meant to offer him command of the squadron he intended to detach into the Mediterranean.

In the expected battle Keats, had he arrived in time, was to have been Nelson's 'second' in the line.