Sir Hyde is on board sulky.

Stewart tells me, his treatment of me is now noticed.

Dickson came on board to-day to say all were scandalized at his gross neglect.

Burn this letter: then it can never appear, and you can speak as if your knowledge came from another quarter." That day the orders came from the Admiralty to go to sea; and the next, March 12, the ships then present sailed,--fifteen ships-of-the-line and two fifties, besides frigates, sloops of war, brigs, cutters, fireships, and seven bomb-vessels,--for, if the Danes were obstinate, Copenhagen was to be bombarded.

On the 16th of March Nelson wrote both to Davison and Lady Hamilton that he as yet knew nothing, except by common report.