The underlying censure did not escape him,--"your two letters gave me much pain," he replied,--but he showed no traces of self-condemnation, or of regret for the past.

Lord Minto, who was now ambassador at Vienna, wrote thence in March of this year, before the question of going home was decided: "I have letters from Nelson and Lady Hamilton.

It does not seem clear whether he will go home.

I hope he will not for his own sake, and he will at least, I hope, take Malta first.

He does not seem at all conscious of the sort of discredit he has fallen into, or the cause of it, for he still writes, not wisely, about Lady H.and all that.