[85] Henry Ellis (1721-1806) wrote an account of an expedition
in which he served to discover the North-West passage. His
_Voyage to Hudson's Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California in
the years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North-West Passage_,
was published in 1748. He was afterwards appointed successively
Governor of Georgia and Nova Scotia.
[86] Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Hamilton (1730-1803) was
appointed Envoy at the Court of Naples in 1764. In September,
1791, he married, as his second wife, Amy Lyon, who as Emma
Hamilton became famous.
43.
_To his Father._
Rome, the 19th of March, 1765.