Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistent hyphenation and discrepancies in numbers of guns. Some errors in the table of contents and chapter summaries have been corrected. Some other changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EVENTS, FROM 1799 TO 1815, _WITH ANECDOTES_. BY THE LATE VICE-ADM^{L.} W^{M.} STANHOPE LOVELL, R.N., K.H. SECOND EDITION. London: WM. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, W. 1879. WITHERBY AND CO., PRINTERS, 74, CORNHILL; NEWMAN’S COURT, CORNHILL; AND 325A, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. _To_ Rear-Admiral Sir ROBERT BARRIE, C.B., K.C.H. MY DEAR SIR ROBERT, In dedicating the following pages to you, under whose command I had the honour of serving in the Chesapeake, &c., I do it with the greatest respect, esteem, and admiration of your conduct. I must ever consider you as one of those officers upon whom the country may safely rely in the hour of peril, and in whose hands it may entrust its honour in the day of battle. Like the celebrated Bayard of old, your career has obtained for you a character, “_sans peur et sans reproche_.” Your faithful friend, THE AUTHOR. _CONTENTS._ CHAPTER I. PAGE First Trip to Sea--Shipmates--Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart, K.B. 1 CHAPTER II. Channel Cruising--Boat Expeditions--Anecdote of a Gallant Mid--Ditto of Two Dandy Guardsmen--Expedition to Ferrol--Sir James Pulteney, Sir Edward Pellew and the Donkey--The Unlucky Cruise 7 CHAPTER III. Cruise off Cadiz--Proceed up the Mediterranean to Egypt after a French Squadron under Rear-Admiral Ganteaume, 1801 16 CHAPTER IV. From the Peace of Amiens (1802) until the Commencement of the Second Gallic War--Gambling 26 CHAPTER V. From the Commencement of Second Gallic War until the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805; with Anecdotes 30 CHAPTER VI. The Battle of Trafalgar, and Extracts from the Log of His Majesty’s Ship _Neptune_, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd October, 1805 43 CHAPTER VII.