LORD VISCOUNT NELSON,

Duke of Brente &c. &c. &c.

In the Dress he wore, when he received his Mortal Wound,

21 Oct 1805.

AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE

OF THE

Death

OF

LORD NELSON:

WITH

THE CIRCUMSTANCES PRECEDING, ATTENDING, AND
SUBSEQUENT TO, THAT EVENT;

THE

PROFESSIONAL REPORT

ON HIS LORDSHIP'S WOUND;

AND

SEVERAL INTERESTING ANECDOTES.

BY WILLIAM BEATTY, M.D.

Surgeon to the Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar, and now Physician to the Fleet under the Command of the Earl of St. Vincent, K.B. &c. &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. DAVISON, WHITE-FRIARS;

FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

1807,

Narrative.

LORD NELSON sailed from St. Helen's in the Victory, with the Euryalus frigate, on the morning of the 15th of September 1805, to take the command of the British Fleet cruizing before Cadiz. On the 18th he appeared off Plymouth; where he was joined by his Majesty's ships Thunderer and Ajax, with which he proceeded for his destined station. On the 20th he communicated by private signal with the squadron under the command. of Rear-Admiral STIRLING, which passed within a few miles of the Victory; and the same day at noon, spoke his Majesty's

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