217) says that she died May 4, 1831, aged 68, but does not mention his authority.
[13] Prior to May, 1785, the only stops of the "Boreas" at Nevis were January 6-8, February 1-4, and March 11-15.

(Boreas's Log in Nicolas's Letters and Despatches of Lord Nelson, vol.vii.Addenda, pp.

viii, ix.) [14] The author is satisfied, from casual expressions in Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton, that his famous two years' confinement to the ship, 1803-1805, and, to a less extent, the similar seclusion practised in the Baltic and the Downs, proceeded, in large part at least, from a romantic and chivalrous resolve to leave no room for doubt, in the mind of Lady Hamilton or of the world, that he was entirely faithful to her.
[15] The author has italicized these words because they accurately express the just penalty that military law would have required of Nelson, had he not shown adequate grounds for his disobedience.

They measure, therefore, the responsibility he shouldered, and the reward he deserved.
[16] Sir Harris Nicolas (Nelson's Despatches and Letters, vol.i.p.

217) gives March 12 as the day of the wedding, upon the ground of a letter of Lady Nelson's.