Nelson then seconded the address in the House of Peers, in words so characteristic of his own temper, and of that then prevailing in the nation, that they serve to explain the strong accord between him and it, and to show why he was so readily and affectionately distinguished as its representative hero.

They are thus reported:-- "I, my Lords, have in different countries, seen much of the miseries of war.

I am, therefore, in my inmost soul, a man of peace.

Yet I would not, for the sake of any peace, however fortunate, consent to sacrifice one jot of England's honour.

Our honour is inseparably combined with our genuine interest.
Hitherto there has been nothing greater known on the Continent than the faith, the untainted honour, the generous public sympathies, the high diplomatic influence, the commerce, the grandeur, the resistless power, the unconquerable valour of the British nation.