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LORD NELSON'S LAST VICTORY.
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THE
London Gazette Extraordinary.
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Admiralty Office, November 6, 1805.
Dispatches, of which the following are Copies, were received at
the Admiralty this day, at one o'clock, A.M. from Vice-Ad-
miral COLLINGWOOD, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's
ships and vessels off Cadiz.
Euryalus, off Cape Trafalgar,
SIR, Oct. 22, 1805.
THE ever to be lamented death of Vice-Admiral
Lord Viscount Nelson, who, in the late conflict with the
enemy, fell in the hour of victory, leaves to me the duty
of informing my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
that on the 19th instant it was communicated to the
Commander in Chief from the ships watching the mo-
tions of the enemy in Cadiz, that the combined fleet
had put to sea. As they sailed with light winds westerly,
his Lordship concluded their destination was the Medi-
terranean, and immediately made all fail for the Streights'
entrance, with the British squadron, consisting of 27 ships,
three of them sixty-fours, where his Lordship was inform-
ed by Captain Blackwood, (whose vigilance in watching,
and giving notice of the enemy's movements, has been
highly meritorious,) that they had not yet passed the
Streights.
On Monday, the 21st instant, at day-light, when Cape
Trafalgar bore E. by S. about seven leagues, the enemy
was discovered six or seven miles to the eastward, the
wing about West and very light; the Commander in
Chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear