Nicolas, vol.vii.
p.

259.
[69] Sir William Hotham.
[70] Many of these details are taken with little alteration from the "Life of Rev.A.J.

Scott." [71] Memoir of Sir Thomas Hardy, in Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Nelson vol.iii.p.

234.
[72] Hillyar was then engaged to a lady in Malta.
[73] As Lady Nelson's first marriage was in 1779, Josiah Nisbet could not have been eighteen when made a commander, in 1797.
[74] Phillimore's "The Last of Nelson's Captains," p.

146.
[75] Flag-officers had a share in all prizes taken by vessels of their squadrons.
[76] Davison.
[77] _Ante_, p.