[Illustration: THE _TEMERAIRE_ ENTERING PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR ON HER RETURN FROM TRAFALGAR. Dec. 20, 1805 After J.C. Schetky.] The _Temeraire_ followed the _Euryalus_ to England some days later. She brought on board, like the other returning ships, three hundred French prisoners, together with, as her special passenger. Captain Infernet of the French _Intrepide_. She arrived at Spithead on the 5th of December, the day after the _Victory_, with Nelson's remains on board, had anchored at St. Helens, and on the 20th of December went up Portsmouth Harbour to go into dock. It so chanced that an artist, John Christian Schetky, afterwards marine painter to King George the Fourth, William the Fourth, and Queen Victoria, was at Portsmouth on the day the _Temeraire_ came in, cheered to the echo on all sides by crowds on the Platform and Point batteries and by every boat and ship that she passed. Sketchbook in hand Mr. Schetky made good use of his opportunity. Captain Harvey arrived in England to find himself a Rear-Admiral, one of the officers specially promoted in honour of Trafalgar, included in the promotion caused by the creation of the rank of Admiral of the Red. He handed over the _Temeraire_ to Acting-Captain Larmour who, six weeks later, paid the ship off for a refit and repair in Portsmouth dockyard which lasted several months. Admiral Harvey was one of the pall-bearers at Nelson's funeral. When in January 1815 he became a K.C.B. he was granted as a special motto above his crest, the name _Temeraire_, together with as supporters to the Harvey family arms,--a triton with a laurel-wreathed trident, and a sea-horse with a naval crown inscribed 'Trafalgar,' bearing underneath all as an additional motto the legend _Redoutable et Fougueux_. How for six years after Trafalgar the _Temeraire_ did her duty before the enemy, at one time helping to keep Marshal Soult out of Cadiz, at another taking her part in holding in check the powerful new fleet that Napoleon created in Toulon to avenge Trafalgar on some future day that never came--all that is another story. Her last shotted guns were fired to silence a French battery in Hyeres Bay, near the entrance to Toulon harbour, which rashly opened fire on the _Temeraire_ one day. The _Temeraire_ closed with the battery and gave the French gunners one tremendous broadside that practically cleared the battery out. Not a shot came from it again. The war story of the _Temeraire_ ends six months later with her final paying off at Plymouth. There only remained for the _Temeraire_, after that, to complete her allotted span and await the striking of the inevitable hour. For age will rust the brightest blade, And time will break the stoutest bow; Was never wight so starkly made, But age and time will bring him low.