Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . r readi-ness to serve, and I have read the same to my LordsCommissioners of the Admiralty. * After five years of unendurable inactivity, whenhope was almost dead in him, he was commissionedto the Agamemnon, a very fine ship of sixty-fourguns. Post nubila Phcebus! he joyfully wrote tohis wife; after clouds come sunshine. TheAdmiralty so smile upon me that really I am asmuch surprised as when they frowned. But theneverything now was indicating war. An Englishship looking into Brest had been fired at. Thepacific intentions of the British Governm
Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . r readi-ness to serve, and I have read the same to my LordsCommissioners of the Admiralty. * After five years of unendurable inactivity, whenhope was almost dead in him, he was commissionedto the Agamemnon, a very fine ship of sixty-fourguns. Post nubila Phcebus! he joyfully wrote tohis wife; after clouds come sunshine. TheAdmiralty so smile upon me that really I am asmuch surprised as when they frowned. But theneverything now was indicating war. An Englishship looking into Brest had been fired at. Thepacific intentions of the British Government hadproved of no avail, and there was nothing for it butto fight. Lord Hood was well acquainted withNelsons character ; so too was Prince William ; theservices of such a man at such a moment must behad; and so on the 27th of June, we find theAgamemnon sailing for Gibraltar with Lord Hoodsfleet, nineteen sail-of-the-line, and a convoy of mer-chant-ships. Nelson is now in high spirits. We are all well, ? Dispatches and Letters, vol. p. SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. 1787-94 Surrender of Toulon to Lord Hood. 43 he wrote to his wife in the previous month ; indeed,nobody could be ill with my ships company, theyare so fine a set. Dont mind what newspapers sayabout us. I not only like the ship, he tells hisbrother, but think I am well appointed in officers,and we are manned exceedingly well; therefore haveno doubt that we shall acquit ourselves well, shouldthe French give us a meeting. On Lord Hoodsarrival in the Mediterranean, he stationed his shipsoff Toulon, and after some negotiations it was agreedby some of the members of the Provisional Govern-ment to deliver up the town, arsenal, ships, forts, etc.,to the British forces in the name of Louis XVILAfter this surrender, Nelson was ordered to Napleswith dispatches for Sir William Hamilton, the BritishMinister. On the 31st of August the Agamemnonfell in with the Tartar with Lord Hugh SeymourConway on board, who sent a note by boa
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