Selection From the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Few persons are unacquainted with the part which Lord Col lingwood bore in some of the most memorable naval triumphs of the last war; and among the members of his own profession, his almost unrivalled skill as a seaman, and his general talents for com mand, will long be remembered with admiration: but as he was a man of retired habits, and passed the greater part of his life at sea, the public at large have not had sufficient means of appreci ating the high qualities and attainments by which he was distin guished. It has, therefore, been deemed advisable to collect into the present volume some of his private Letters, and such parts of his public Correspondence as have now become matters of history.