actually sent:
"Almighty God has blessed His Majesty's arms."

While Nelson lay thus momentarily disabled, important events were
transpiring, over which, however, he could have exerted no control. It
has been mentioned that the "Culloden" was seven miles to the
northward and westward of the fleet, when the French were first
discovered. Doing her best, it was impossible to reach the main body
before it stood down into action, and the day had closed when the ship
neared the shoal. Keeping the lead going, and proceeding with caution,
though not with the extreme care which led Hood and Nelson to make so
wide a sweep, Troubridge had the mishap to strike on the tail of the
shoal, and there the ship stuck fast, pounding heavily until the next
morning. The fifty-gun ship "Leander" went to her assistance, as did
the brig "Mutine," but all efforts to float her proved vain. Meanwhile
the "Alexander" and "Swiftsure" were coming up from the southwest, the
wind being so scant that they could barely pass to windward of the
reef, along whose northwestern edge they were standing. The
"Alexander," in fact, was warned by the lead that she was running into
danger, and had to tack. As they approached, Troubridge, by lantern
and signal, warned them off the spot of his disaster, thus
contributing to save these ships, and, by removing doubt, accelerating
their entrance into action. As they rounded the stranded "Culloden,"
the "Leander" was also dismissed from a hopeless task, and followed
them to the scene of battle.

The delay of the two seventy-fours, though purely fortuitous, worked
in furtherance of Nelson's plan, and resulted, practically, in
constituting them a reserve, which was brought into play at a most
auspicious moment. The "Bellerophon," crushed by the preponderating
weight of the "Orient's" battery, had just cut her cable and worn out
of action, with the loss of forty-nine killed and one hundred and
forty-eight wounded, out of a total of five hundred and ninety men.
Her foremast alone was then standing, and it fell immediately after.
The firing, which had been animated from the French left towards the
centre, now slackened around the latter, at the point where the
"Orient" and her next ahead, the "Franklin," were lying. For this
spot, therefore, the captains of the two fresh British ships steered.
The "Swiftsure," Captain Hallowell, anchored outside the enemy's line,
abreast the interval separating the "Orient" and the "Frankli