The 1st of August being made the great day at Milford, the Honourable Mr. Greville had invited all the nobility and gentry of the county of Pembroke to welcome the hero and his friends at this intended annual festival.  A rowing match, fair day, and shew of cattle, were established for ever at Milford, in honour of the victory off the Nile.  All the most respectable families twenty miles round, with a prodigious concourse of the humbler classes, came to see their beloved hero.  Mr. Bolton, his lordship’s brother-in-law, too, determined to be present on the occasion, arrived at Milford, that very morning, from Norfolk.  It proved, all together a most interesting scene.  After dinner, Lord Nelson, with admirable address, gave “Captain Foley!” as his toast:  a friend and brother officer, he said, than whom there was not a braver or a better man in his majesty’s service.  He had been with him in all his chief battles; deserved to participate in every honour; and was, his lordship had the pleasure to add, in that respectable company, not only a Welshman, but a native of the county of Pembroke.  It need scarcely be added, that this toast, so honourable both to his lordship and Captain Foley, and so gratifying to the principality and county, was received, and drank, with the most rapturous delight.  At this public meeting, they had also the high satisfaction to hear, from his lordship’s lips, the result of his judicious observations on the matchless harbour which that county embosoms.  Lord Nelson had fully examined it’s entrance, and its qualities; and now declared, that he considered Milford Haven, and Trincomale in the East Indies, as the two finest harbours he had ever beheld.  The obstacles which had hitherto impeded the employment of so important an appendage as this to the empire, appeared merely artificial, and would speedily be removed when once fully known.  The rapid results of individual exertion had already, in fact, proved this, by bringing the mails to the water-side, rendering the custom-house shore accessible to ships of burden, and establishing daily packets to and from Ireland; so that nothing more was now wanting, to render Milford Haven, projecting into and separating the St. George’s and the Bristol channels, the only safe sea-port on the west coast of Great Britain for commerce, as well as a port of refuge and of call:  but, when viewed in relation to Ireland, it became the central port of the empire; particularly, as a bonding port.  The American settlers, by their character and ability, had been enabled to send eight ships to the South Seas, and thus established the whale fishery.  He had, himself, he acknowledged, supposed that the danger and natural defects of this port justified the official prejudice which, since the year 1757, has been attached to Milford Haven; but, the fortifications being now properly abandoned, as incapable of defending the harbour, the qualities of the port, stated in the petition of British merchants, and in the report