chez Inl, <into his cabin

559. de belles dames, 'grand ladies/ ùe, not to gîve themselves airs. N,B, de before belles, adj.

The battle ofF Cape Trafalgar, won by Nelson over the French and Spanish fleets, was fought 2ist October 1805. Nelson was killed at the end of the battle, and Lord CoUingwood succeeded him in command of our fleet.

559-62. Quoted almost Verbatim from a letter to I«ady Collingwood, dated Océan, May lyth, 1807.

562. Nous ayons combattu. Letter to I^dy CoUingwood, dated Océan, May 28th, 1806, the *birthday of dear little Sarah.'

565. lui govemed by voir, because gagner has an object que (preceding Une) on the analogyof 'faire and the infin.' See Appendix II. Remark.

et dont ... le plan, ' and the plan of which he had laid down.'

567. il sentait sa santé s'affaiblir. He was constantly longing for home. See letters to Lady CoUingwood (dated Océan, 2Sth Oct. 1806, incip.), to J. E. Blackett, Esq. (dated Océan, ist Jan. subfin., 5th Sept., and 24th Oct. 1807, sub fin.), and to Lady CoUingwood (dated Océan, off Cadiz, I5th Aug. 1808).

His letters conceming his faiUng in health are chiefly those to Lady CoUingwood, dated Océan, off the Dardanelles, 20th Aug. 1807, to J. E. Blackett, Esq. {Occan, at sea, ist Jan., and Océan, Port Mahon, 2Sth March 1809), to Lady CoUingwood ( Ville de Paris, off Toulon, I7th June 1809), and again to J. E. Blackett, Esq. (24th Nov. 1809).

567-8. il demandait gr&ce à rAngleterre, 'he craved England for mercy.' He asks to be allowed to resign, in letters to the Earl of Mulgrave, dated Océan, 26th Aug. , Océan, off Toulon, 3oth Oct 1808, and Océan, off Malta, loth Jan. 1809.

OlV.] notes. 185