A like eagerness does not seem to have prevailed on board the flagship.

Parker had allowed himself to be stiffened to the fighting-point by the junior he had before disregarded, but that he looked to the issue with more than doubt may be inferred from the words of his private secretary, the Rev.Mr.Scott, who afterwards held the same relation to Nelson.

"I fear," he wrote on the day of the council, "there is a great deal of Quixotism in this business; there is no getting any positive information of their strength." Nelson's general plan of attack is set forth in main outlines in the letter already given, but it is desirable to give a somewhat more detailed description.

It will be seen, by the annexed chart, that there are before Copenhagen two channels by which the city can be passed.

Between the two lies a shoal, called the Middle Ground.