Your affectionate nephew, (Signed) H. DIGBY. [Illustration: FRENCH LINE ON LARBOARD TACK.] (To which was added the following postscript): I really have no time to say more, surrounded as I am by the wounded men in my cabin, and in all sorts of employ, completing jury masts, etc., etc., and I will thank you to say so to Dr. Shiff and my brothers and sisters. The _Africa_ was, with many others, dispersed by variable winds, and perceiving the French signals during the night, I took a station at discretion, and was the means of being early in action the next day, engaging the van as I ran along to join the English Lines. After passing through the line, in which position I brought down the foremast of the _Santissima Trinidada_, mounting 140 guns; after which I engaged, within pistol-shot, _L’Intrépide_, 74, which afterwards struck and was burnt, _Orion_ and _Conqueror_ coming up. A little boy that stayed with me is safe. Twice on the poop was I left alone, all being killed or wounded. I am very deaf, with a sad pressure over my breast.” I have not space to describe half the services of the gallant Digby. In 1796 he was posted into the _Aurora_ frigate, and in less than two years had captured six French privateers, one lettre de marque, and one corvette, _L’Égalité_, making a total of 124 guns and 744 men, besides forty-eight merchant ships taken or sunk. In command of the _Leviathan_, with Commodore Duckworth, he assisted in the capture of the island of Minorca. In command of the _Alcmene_, he captured two French men-of-war, _Le Dépit_, 3 guns, and _La Courageuse_, 30 guns and 270 men; also on October 17, 1799, two Spanish frigates, _Thetis_ and _Brigide_, each of 32 guns and 300 men. They contained 3,000,000 dollars, and it took fifty military waggons to convey the specie from Plymouth Dock to the citadel. His prize-money, as stated by himself, amounted to £57,300 before he was thirty years of age, with £6300 more before he was thirty-six. I read that in the beginning of 1818 the following Whigs dined together in compliment to Mr. Coke, at Wyndham, near Quidenham: The Rev. R. Coleman, in the chair; Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, Lord Albemarle, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. R. Hammond, Lord Cochrane, Sir Thomas Beevor, Mr. Gurney, Sir Jacob Astley, Mr. Lerwlie, and Admiral Lukin, at that date rather Liberal.