1798 — 1805 .]

HONORARY MEDALS.

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manded a Ship of the Line, and who survived the day; namely, Henry WilliamBayntun, of the Leviathan; Sir Edward Berry, Knight, of the Agamemnon;Charles Bullen, of the Britannia; Edward Codrington, of the Orion; JohnConn, of the Dreadnought; Henry Digby, of the Africa; Philip CharlesDurham, of the Defiance; Thomas Francis Fremantle, of the Neptune;Richard Grindall, of the Prince; Thomas Masterman Hardy, of the Victory;Eliab Harvey, of the Temeraire; William Hargood, of the Belleisle; GeorgeHope, of the Defence; Richard King, of the Achille; Sir Francis Laforey,Baronet, of the Spartiate; John Moore Mansfield, of the Minotaur; JamesNicoll Morris, of the Colossus; Robert Moorsom, of the Revenge; IsraelPellew, of the Conqueror; Robert Redmill, of the Polyphemus; EdwardRotheram, of the Royal Sovereign ; William Gordon Rutherford, of the Swift-sure ; and Charles Tyler, of the Tonnant.

Lord Viscount Nelson, and Captain John Cooke, of the “Bellerophon,” andCaptain George Duff, of the Mars, having been killed in the battle, the LargeMedal which would have been given to Lord Nelson was delivered to hisfamily; and those of Captains Cooke and Duff were sent to their widows inApril 1807. 1 Lord Nelson’s Medal bore this inscription, horatio viscountNELSON VICE-ADMIRAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON THE 21 OCTOBERMDCCCV. THE COMBINED FLEETS OF FRANCE AND SPAIN DEFEATED; butsurely it ought to have recorded that his transcendant services were then termi-nated by his glorious death. 2 In consequence of the absence of the Captainsof the Ajax and Thunderer, those ships were commanded by their seniorLieutenants, the former by Lieutenant John Pilfold, and the latter by Lieu-tenant John Stockham, both of whom were immediately promoted to the rankof Post-Captain. The Medal was not, however, bestowed on them for twoyears, there not being a precedent applicable to their case; but as there wasnot any previous instance of a Lieutenant having been in command of a Shipof the Line at the commencement of an Action, for which Medals had beengiven, and as their position was therefore different from that of a Lieutenantsucceeding to the command on the death or wounds of the Captain, during the

1 Records in the Admiralty Office.

2 Part of the Crew of the “ Victory ” presented a Memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty, prayingfor a small Medal in honour of Lord Nelson; but their request was not complied with.—Ibid.