A Selection From the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood - Interspersed With Memoirs of His Life #265923

Your Royal Highness, and respectfully to solicit for it your countenance and protection. Your Royal Highness was pleased to distinguish Lord Collingwood by your friendship, although he never had the honour of being personally presented to you: but many of his friends remember how he used to repeat what he had heard from Lord Nelson and Captain Wilfred Collingwood, that no Ship in the English Navy was ever conducted in a more able and Officer-like manner than that which Your Royal Highness commanded; and how often he expressed his concern that more frequent opportunities had not been afforded for the display of Your Royal Highness's activity and talent.