NELSON, when writing to the Queen of the Two Sicilies upon the death of their common friend, made this remark on his testamentary arrangements:—‘The good Sir William did not leave Lady HAMILTON in such comfortable circumstances as his fortune would have allowed. He has given it amongst his relations. [Sidenote: Nelson to the Queen of Naples (Nicolas, vol. iv, p. 84).] But she will do honour to his memory, although every one else of his friends calls loudly against him on that account.’ This comment, however, expresses rather a temporary feeling than a wise judgment. Sir William had settled a jointure of seven hundred pounds a year upon his widow. During the few months of life that yet remained to the great seaman himself, the highest encomium known to his vocabulary was to say, ‘So-and-so was a great friend of Sir William HAMILTON.’ [Sidenote: THE ‘INSTITUTE OF EGYPT;’ AND ITS RESEARCHES AND ACQUISITIONS.] As the British Museum owes one choice portion of its archæological treasures to the man who was NELSON’S type of friendship, so also it owes—indirectly—another portion of them to the man who was NELSON’S favourite aversion, and whose very name, in the Admiral’s mind, served to sum up all that was most detestable. The Battle of the Nile, and the military operations which followed it in the after years, would have counted no antiquarian riches amongst their trophies, but for that ardent love of science in NAPOLEON which prompted him to plan the ‘Institute of Egypt’ as an essential part of the Campaign of Egypt. The intention with which the Institute of Egypt was founded embraced every kind of study and research. The scholars of whom it was composed included within their number men of the most varied powers. What they effected was fragmentary, and yet their researches, directly or indirectly, bore much fruit. In the end, the harvest was to France herself none the less abundant from the fact that NELSON’S achievement, and what grew thereout, set Englishmen and Germans to work with increased vigour in the same field, and divided some of the tools.