He is the Admiral that went to Naples in December, 1792, who landed the grenadier.

I owe him something for that." The French having eight sail-of-the-line certainly ready for sea, and two or three more nearly so--how nearly Nelson was not sure--he now endeavored to lure them out.

"I have taken a method of making Mr.La Touche Treville angry.

I have left Sir Richard Bickerton, with part of the fleet, twenty leagues from hence, and, with five of the line, am preventing his cutting capers, which he has done for some time past, off Cape Sicie." "He seems inclined to try his hand with us," he writes a week later, "and by my keeping so great an inferiority close to him, perhaps he may some day be tempted." Nelson had near Toulon at the time nine ships-of-the-line.

Had he succeeded in bringing Latouche Treville to attack his five, he would have hoped, even with such odds, for a decisive victory; but, failing that, he was assured that the Toulon fleet would be out of the game for that summer.