Cork, August, 1851.
Minor Notes.
_Nelson's Coat_ (Vol. iii., p. 517.).--The recognition of the coat
Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends on its fulfilling a detail in the
following fact. The present Captain Sir George Westphal was a midshipman
on board the Victory, and was wounded on the back of the head: he was
taken into the cockpit, and placed by the side of Nelson. When
Westphal's wound was dressed, nothing else being immediately available,
Nelson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to Westphal's head.
Blood flowed from the wound, and, coagulating, stuck the bullion of one
of the epaulettes to the bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some
of the bullion curls to liberate the coat: so that the coat Nelson wore
on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the epaulettes.