right to send an officer (by Alexandretta, Aleppo, and Bussorah)
over land, to India, with an account of what I have gathered from
these dispatches; which, I hope, will be approved. I have sent a
copy of my letter to the Board of Controul, that they may give the
necessary directions for paying the officers bills. If it should
have gone to the East India Company, I hope that board will forward
it. Ever believe me, your lordship's most obliged and obedient
servant,

"Horatio Nelson."

The letter thus mentioned, as being addressed to the Board of Controul,
was written to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, then President of that
Board, the present celebrated Lord Melville, in these words--

"Vanguard,
Mouth of the Nile,
9th August 1798.

"SIR,

"As President of the Board of Controul for India, I have addressed
this letter to you: if I ought to have addressed it to the India
House, I request you will have the goodness to send it to the
Chairman of the Company; and, that you will excuse the trouble I
have given you. I have thought it right to send an officer,
Lieutenant Duval, who very handsomely offered his services, by
Alexandretta, Aleppo, and Bussorah, to Bombay, to give all the
accounts I know of the movements of the French army, and their
future intentions. Herewith, I send a copy of my letter; and of the
orders I have given him, to draw for money on the East India
Company, &c. If I have done wrong, I hope the bills will be paid,
and I will repay the company; for, as an Englishman, I shall be
proud that it has been in my power to be the means of putting our
settlements on their guard. Mr. Baldwin not having been for some
months at Alexandria, has been a great misfortune. I have the
honour to be, Sir, with the greatest respect, your most obedient
servant,

"Horatio Nelson."

With a hundred dollars, in cash, and letters of credit to his Britannic
majesty's consuls, vice-consuls, and even British merchants, on his
prescribed route, Lieutenant Duval was this day dispatched by Admiral
Nelson, as bearer of the following letter to his Excellency the Governor
of Bombay.

"Vanguard,
off the Mouth of the Nile,
9th August 1798.

"SIR,

"Although, I hope, the consuls who are, or ought to be, in Egypt,
have sent you an expre