The events of 1799 belong rather to history than to biography. Sir William HAMILTON’S chief share in them lay in his exertions to obtain for NELSON the large powers which the King of NAPLES vested in the English Admiral—with results so mingled. On the 21st of June he embarked with NELSON on board the _Foudroyant_, and sailed with the squadron to Naples. In the stormy interview between NELSON and Cardinal RUFFO, Sir William acted as interpreter. In all that followed, he seems to have been rather a spectator than an actor. At the close of the year he joined with NELSON in the vain endeavour to induce the King to return to Naples, while that course was yet open to him. [Sidenote: DEPARTURE FROM NAPLES.] On the 10th of June, 1800, Sir William took his final leave of Naples, which had been his home for thirty-six years, and where he had mingled in a departed world. In company with the Queen and three princesses, the HAMILTONS sailed in the _Foudroyant_ for Leghorn, on their way to Vienna. A few days after the embarkation, a fellow-passenger writes thus: ‘Sir William HAMILTON appears broken, distressed, and harassed. [Sidenote: Miss Knight to Lady Berry, July 2, 1800.] He says that he shall die by the way, and he looks so ill that I should not be surprised if he did.’ When the Admiral struck his flag (13th July) at Leghorn, the party set out for Vienna. Between Leghorn and Florence, Sir William’s carriage met with an overturn, which increased his malady. At Trieste the physicians were inclined to despair of his life. But he rallied sufficiently to reach England at last, and the change from turmoil to rest prolonged his life for two years to come. [Sidenote: SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON’S LAST DAYS.] During the long interval between the acquisition of the first Hamilton Museum and the return of its Collector to his country, he had marked his interest in the national Collection by repeated and valuable gifts. To make yet one gift more—trivial, but possessing an historical interest—was one of his last acts. On the 12th of February, 1803, he sent to the British Museum a Commission given by the famous fisherman of Amalfi to one of his insurrectionary captains. On the 6th of April Sir William HAMILTON died, in London. He was buried at Milford Haven. The kindly heart had left many memorials of its quality at Naples. The ambassador had lost a part of his fortune. But many poor dependants, in his old home, enjoyed pensions from his liberality.