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the Royal Sovereign, which were used at the Battle of Trafalgar. For many years no inscription appeared on the monument, but the following was finally adopted and placed upon it in 1899 :

This Monument was erected in 1845 by public subscription to the

memory of

Admiral Lord Collingwood,

who in the Royal Sovereign on the 21st October 1805 led the British fleet into action at Trafalgar and maintained the sea fight for upwards of an hour before the other ships were within gunshot, which caused Nelson to exclaim : " See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action."

He was born at Newcastle on Tyne 1748 and died in the service of his country on board the Ville de Paris on 7th March 1810 and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

The four guns upon this monument belonged to his ship the Eoyal Sovereign.

Newcastle -on-Tyne. On the house in The Side in which Lord Collingwood was born a tablet was placed in June, 1889. It was inscribed :

Admiral Lord Collingwood born in this house

1748. The house was demolished in 1904.

Morpeth. Over the door of Collingwood House is a tablet inscribed as follows :

Here lived the family of Lord Collingwood : and here he spent the few and short periods of repose snatched from long and arduous service afloat.

" Whenever I think how I am to be happy again, my thoughts carry me back to Morpeth " 'Collingwood.

" See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action " Nelson at Trafalgar.

Erected by the Corporation of Morpeth, 1905.

^London. Collingwood was buried beside Nelson in the centre of the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. At a cost of 4,200Z. a monu- ment was erected in the south transept of the Cathedral. It was designed by Westma- cott, and represents the admiral's body lying on the deck of a war-ship draped in the colours he won from the enemy. Fame bends over the prow of the vessel, and Father Thames regards it as it passes by. The plinth below bears the following inscrip- tion : Erected at the public expense to the memory of

Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood,

who died in command of the fleet in the Medi- terranean

on board the Ville-de-Paris vii March MDCCCX, in the LXI year of his age.

Wherever he served he was distinguished

for conduct, skill and courage ; particularly

in the action with the French fleet, June 1,

MDCCXCIV

as Captain of the Barfleur ; in the action with the Spanish fleet xiv February

MDCCXOVn

as Captain of the Excellent ;

but most conspicuously in the decisive Victory off Cape Trafalgar

obtained over

the combined fleets of France and Spain, to which he eminently contributed as Vice- Admiral of the Blue commanding the Larboard Division, xxi October MDCCCV.

My thanks for valued help and suggestions are hereby tendered to Mr. Frank Paul, Mr. J. M. Bulloch, Major J. H. Leslie, R.A. (retired list), Mr. A. E. Parsons, the Rev. W. T. Latimer, Mr. Oliver H. Keys, Mr. George Carvill, Mr. J. Lindsay Hilson, Mr. Keith H. Hopkins, Mr. Wm. MacArthur, Mr. B. W. Chippindale, and others.

I might also add by way of gentle reminder that I have still on my file some half-dozen letters from correspondents offering help which, though accepted is for some unknown reason so 'far withheld.

Addenda et Corrigenda. CRIMEAN WAR (US. vii. 344).

Sheffield. With respect to this memorial a correspondent writes :

" I have always thought that the memorial in Sheffield has been thoroughly degraded by the authorities.

" Its base is surrounded by railings, and ii further adorned by ladies' and gentlemen's lava- tories, a tramcar "shelter, horse drinking-trough, a drinking fountain, and stand for two cab?. Nothing could be in worse taste."

Woolwich. The same correspondent points out that "barracks for sappers and miners " should more correctly read " Royal Artillery Barracks."

He also adds :

" It might interest you to know that the late Queen Victoria subscribed 100 guineas to this memorial, and the Prince Consort 50 guineas*"

SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (US. vii. 444).

London. With respect to the memorial in The Mall I am informed that " the names of the men were so much worn through being ' inserted in the floor of the plat- form ' that last year they were removed, and are placed on the east and west of the two pillars at extreme ends of the semicircle."

The same correspondent adds : " There are representations of guns in action on the N. side of these two pillars."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)