The day that the Hamiltons left, the great artery burst, and, after a brief deceitful rally, he died on the 27th of September.

Nelson, who was tenderly attached to him, followed him to the grave with emotion so deep as to be noticeable to the bystanders.
"Thank God," he wrote that afternoon, "the dreadful scene is past.

I scarcely know how I got over it.

I could not suffer much more and be alive." "I own," he had written to St.Vincent immediately after the repulse, "I shall never bring myself again to allow any attack to go forward, where I am not personally concerned; my mind suffers much more than if I had a leg shot off in this late business." The Admiralty refusing any allowances, much of the expense of Parker's illness and of his funeral fell upon Nelson, who assumed all his debts.

It was but one instance among many of a liberality in money matters, which kept him constantly embarrassed.