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chosen a Jew as an ambassador ; 2. That his 
surname was Bartolomeo, which could not 
have been borne by a Jew; 3. That the Flo- 
rentine historian Poggio speaks of Valori as 
having been one of the principal members of 
the Council of Florence. The Abbé thence 
justly concludes, that the ambassador could 
not have been a Jew; and it is extraordinary 
that Daru, after such a conclusive argument, 
should have admitted the term Jew into his 
text. But the truth is, that this writer (like 
many others of great reputation) preferred 
blindly following the text of Sanuto, as printed 
by Muratori*, to the trouble of consulting 
any early manuscripts. It happens, however, 
that in a manuscript copy of these Orations of 
Mocenigo, written certainly earlier than the 
period of Sanuto, and preserved in the British 
Museum, MS. Add. 12, 121., the true reading 
of the passage may be found thus: — “ Fo 
mandato Bartolomeo Valori, homo richo, el 
qual viveva de cambij.” By later tran- 
scribers the epithet richo, so properly here 
bestowed on the Florentine noble, was changed 
into zudio (giudeo), and having been trans- 
ferred in that shape into Sanuto, has formed 
the groundwork of a serious error, which has 
now existed for more than three centuries 
and a half. Freprrick Mappen. 
British Museum, Nov. 7. 1849. 
LETTERS OF LORD NELSON’S BROTHER IMME- 
DIATELY AFTER THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. 
[The following letters will be best illustrated by a 
few words derived from the valuable life of our great 
naval hero lately published by Mr. Pettigrew. Besides 
his last will, properly so called, which had been some 
time executed, Lord Nelson wrote and signed another 
paper of a testamentary character immediately before 
he commenced the battle of Trafalgar. It contained 
an enumeration of certain public services performed by 
Lady Hamilton, and a request that she might be pro- 
vided for by the country. “Could I have rewarded 
those services,’ Lord Nelson says, “I would not now 
call upon my country; but as that has not been in my 
power, I leave Emma Hamilton, therefore, a legacy to 
my king and country, that will give her an ample 
provision to maintain her rank in life.” He also recom- 
mended to the beneficence of his country his adopted 
* In the Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, tom, xxii. 
eol. 947., the passage stands thus: “ Fu mandato Bar- 
tolomeo Valori, hom giudeo, el qual vivea di cambi.” 
Two late copies of Sanuto, formerly in the Guildford 
collection, and now in the British Museum, MS. Add. 
8575, 8576, read, “ Bartoli Valori, hom iudio.” 
daughter. “My relations,” he concludes, “it is need- 
ae to mention ; they will of course be amply provided 
or.” 
This paper was delivered over to Lord Nelson’s 
brother, together with his will. ‘Earl Nelson, with 
his wife and family, were then with Lady Hamilton, 
and had indeed been living with her many months. 
To their son Horatio, afterwards Viscount Trafalgar, 
she was as attentive as a mother, and their daughter 
had been almost exclusively under her care for edu- 
cation for six years. The Earl kept the codicil in 
his pocket until the day 120,000/. was voted for 
him by the House of Commons. On that day he 
dined with Lady Hamilton in Clarges Street, and 
learning at table what had been done, he brought forth 
the codicil, and throwing it to Lady Hamilton, coarsely 
said, she might now do with it as she pleased.” 
— Pettigrew’s Memoirs of Nelson, ii. 624, 625. Lady 
Hamilton took the paper to Doctors’ Commons, where 
it stands registered as a codicil to Nelson’s will. A 
knowledge of these circumstances is necessary to the 
full understanding of our correspondent’s communi- 
cation. ] 
Sir, —The following letters may be found 
interesting as illustrative of the private his- 
tory of Lord Nelson, to which public attention 
has been strongly drawn of late by the able 
work of Mr. Pettigrew. ‘The letters were 
addressed by Earl Nelson to the Rev. A. J. 
Scott, the friend and chaplain of the fallen 
hero, 
18. Charles Street, Berkeley Square, 
Dee. 2. 1805. 
Dear Sir, —I am this day favoured with your 
obliging letter of October 27.* The afflicting in- 
telligence you designed to prepare me for had 
arrived much sooner; but I am duly sensible of 
the kind motive which induced this mark of your 
attention and remembrance. 
The King has been pleased to command that his 
great and gallant servant shall be buried with 
funeral honours suitable to the splendid services 
he rendered to his country, and that the body 
shall be conveyed by water to Greenwich, in order 
to be laid in state. For myself I need not say 
how anxious I am to pay every tribute of affection 
and of respect to my honoured and lamented bro- 
ther’s remains. And it affords me great satisfaction 
to learn your intention of accompanying them till 
deposited in their last earthly mansion. The coffin 
made of the L’Orient’s mast will be sent to 
Greenwich to await the arrival of the body, and I 
hope there to have an opportunity of making my 
acknowledgements in person. 
Believe me, dear Sir, 
Your faithful friend, 
and obedient humble servant, 
Nurson. 
* The Battle of Trafalgar was fought October 21. 
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