"I want much to get off from this d----d voyage," he wrote.

"Mr.Adair," an eminent London surgeon, who the year before had treated him for the paralysis of his limbs, "has told me that if I was sent to a cold damp climate it would make me worse than ever." He himself had scruples about applying for an exchange, and the efforts of some friends who interfered proved useless.

The "Albemarle" started with a convoy of thirty-odd vessels on the 10th of April, 1782; and after a short stop at Cork, anchored at St.John's, Newfoundland, on May 27, whence she reached Quebec July 1.

Three days later she again sailed on a cruise that lasted over two months, spent chiefly about Boston Bay and Cape Cod.

During this time several enemy's vessels were taken or destroyed; but, with the bad luck that so often followed Nelson in the matter of prize-money, none of the captures reached port, and the cruise was pecuniarily unprofitable.