A SELECTION FROM THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF VICE-ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD: ΤΟ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CLAR LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT B &c. &c. &c. &c. SIR, THE permission wh ROYAL HIGHNESS has been gracio sed to give me, to insert in this Your ROYAL HIGHNESS'S Letters COLLINGWOOD, demands from me public acknowledgment of my g and as there is no one to whom containing the Memoirs of an Naval Officer can be so properly as to Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, I v 303802 inscribe it to Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, and respectfully to solicit for it your countenance and protection. Your ROYAL HIGHNESS was pleased to distinguish Lord COLLINGWOOD by your friendship, although he never had the honour of being personally presented to you: but many of his friends remember how he used to repeat what he had heard from Lord NELSON and Captain WILFRED COLLINGWOOD, that no Ship in the English Navy was ever conducted in a more able and Officer-like manner than that which Your ROYAL HIGHNESS commanded; and how often he expressed his concern that more frequent opportunities had not been afforded for the display of Your ROYAL HIGHNESS's activity and talent. No one, therefore, can doubt the cordiality with which Lord COLLINGWOOD, if his life had been spared to the present time, would have partaken in the satisfaction and pride with which every member and lover of the British |