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business of command. When Nelson asked him why they got on so well Hardy explained that it was because he knew when to let Nelson take over as captain. J. Gore, Nelson’s Hardy and his Wife , p. 18.

    36 Blackwood to Harriet Blackwood 22.10.1805; Nicolas VII p. .225–7. Blackwood, like Codrington, considered that some of the ships at the rear of the line had not engaged at close range, as Nelson required, and were therefore derelict in their duty. Collingwood rejected such carping, after the loss of his friend, and the victory. I am indebted to Dr Michael Duffy for this observation.
    37 Collingwood to Moutray 9.12.1805; Nicolas VII pp. 238–9. Collingwood to Cornwallis 26.10.1805; Cornwallis p. 412
    38 Collingwood to Pasley 16.12.1805; Nicolas VII p. 241
CHAPTER XVI
     
    1 Coleridge, S. T. The Friend I , pp. 574–5, from his wonderful essay on Alexander Ball. Holmes, R. Coleridge, Darker Visions , London, 1998, pp. 1–63 covers his period in Malta.
    2 Barker, J. Wordsworth: A Life, pp. 337–40, 867. Published in 1807, the poem was composed between Trafalgar and the funeral. It was a Victorian favourite.
    3 Pitt to Earl Nelson 9.11.180 5; Stanhope, Life of Pitt , Vol. Ill, pp. 344–5
    4 Guerin, Horatia , p. 298
    5 Hawkesbury to King 10.11.1805; Aspinall, George III Vol. IV p. 364
    6 Parissien, George IV; The Grand Entertainment , p. 27
    7 Hawkesbury to Earl Nelson 12.12.1805; MON E218
    8 Hood to Hawkesbury 6.1.1806; MON E387
    9 Lady Bessborough to Granville Leveson Gower 9.1.1806; Granville II pp.154–5
    10 The King to London Corporation 21,11.1805; Prince of Wales to Davison 18.12.1805; Nicolas VII pp. 306–10
    11 Sidmouth, 21.1.1806, at the opening of Parliament, House of Lords; Nicolas VII p. 312
    12 Lady Londonderry to Castlereagh 15.11.1805; Nicolas VII p. 323
    13 Greig, Farington IV p. 269–72
    14 For Devis, West and the competition see Greig, Farington IV pp. 109n, 138, 150–9
    15 Butlin, M. and Joll, E. The Paintings of J . M. W. Turner. Vol. I Text Yale 1977 P. 39
    16 Wilton, Painting and Poetry; Turner’s Verse Book and his work of 1804 – 1812, p. 48
    17 Erdman, Blake; Prophet Against Empire , p 220.
    18 Ibid. pp. 318–19
    19 Ibid. p. 449.
    20 Raine, Blake and Tradition , Vol. I p. 3 59; Raine, ‘A New Mode of Printing’ in Lucas, William Blake , 1998, p. 125.
    21 Erdman, p. 449
    22 Coleridge, The Friend pp. 551–2
    23 Ibid. pp. 572–4

    24 Earl Nelson to Col. MacMahan 13.2.1806; and reply of 15.2.1806; STW/8 NMM
    25 Earl to Nelson Prince of Wales 16.2.1806; Earl Nelson Memorandum; Add. 34,992 ff. 105–8
    26 McArthur to Earl Nelson 31.3.1806 and Earl Nelson to McArthur 4.4.1806; Add. 34,992 ff. 120–3.
    27 Clarke to Earl Nelson 28.5.1806; Add. 34,992 f. 146
    28 Clarke to Earl Nelson 5.1807 and nd; Add. 34,992 ff.174 and 280
    29 Morning Post 3.9.1809. Cadell and Davies to McArthur 25.7.1809, and 17.12.1809; PHB/16. The publishers were later taken over by Messrs Longman.
    30 Farington records that he was at work on this piece by March 1807. IV p. 100.
    31 Cadell and Davies to McArthur 22.10.1812; PHB/16
    32 McArthur to Cadell and Davies 11.1.1816
    33 Storey, M. Robert Southey: A Life , pp. 210–21
    34 ‘Lives of Nelson’, Quarterly Review , February 1810, pp. 218–62., esp. pp. 220–4
    35 Spencer Perceval (Prime Minister) to Charles Yorke (First Lord) 8.7.1811; YOY/14 NMM. Southey to Thomas Southey 28.8.1812; Curry, K. ed, New Letters of Robert Southey I , London, 1965, pp. 39–41
    36 Fulford, T. ‘Romanticising the Empire; The Naval Heroes of Southey, Coleridge, Austen and Marryat’, pp. 171–4
    37 Eastwood, D. ‘Patriotism Personified; Robert Southey’s Life of Nelson Reconsidered’
    38 Southey to Mrs Southey 25.9.1813; Curry II pp. 74–5
    39 But Emma did, and complained bitterly about his ‘falsehoods’ concerning Naples. Emma to James Perry 22.4.1814; Morrison II p. 369. In this she was telling the truth, although the other half of her letter about the newly published Nelson