LINKS WITH THE PAST.
[To TEM EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Several letters have appeared in the Spectator this year relating to naval officers who served at Trafalgar. May I be permitted to add yet another "link" to a still more remote victory, viz., that of St. Vincent in 1797? My father was at this time acting as aide-de-camp to Admiral Sir John Jervois (afterwards Lord St. Vincent). It was my father who as signal mate on this occasion first announced the enemy in sight. My father was born in 1778. He obtained his captaincy in 1800, and was a vice-admiral when he died in 1849, thus covering a longer period than any other mentioned in the Spectator. Should there be anyone still living who served under my father I should esteem it a great favour if he would write to me. May I add that my father greatly valued the gift from his friend, Sir Thomas Hardy, of Lord Nelson's night glass, which is now in my son's possession at his
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