The features being now lost, the face cannot, as Mr. Beatty
very properly observes, be exposed; I hope therefore everything is
closed and soldered down.
I wrote to Mr. Tyson a few days ago, and should be glad to hear
from him. I mean to go towards London about the 1st, 2nd or 3rd of
Jan (the day not yet fixed), and call at Greenwich for a moment,
just to have a melancholy sight of the coffin, &c. &c., when I
hope I shall see you.
I shall be glad to hear from you as often as you have any thing
new to communicate, and how the preparations go on. Every thing
now is in the hands of government, but, strange to tell, I have
not yet heard from the Herald's Office, whether _I_ am to attend
the procession or _not_.
Believe me,
Your much obliged humble servant,
NELSON.
The _codicil_ referred to in these letters proved to be, or at least
to include, that memorable document which the Earl suppressed, when he
produced the will, lest it should curtail his own share of the amount
of favour which a grateful country would be anxious to heap on the
representative of the departed hero.
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