not only chaplain of the Victory, but private and foreign secretary to Lord Nelson, who also often employed him in confidential communications on shore.  They had known each other ever since the year 1793; when Mr. Scott was chaplain to Sir John Collins in the Mediterranean, and Lord Nelson captain of the Agamemnon.  On the death of Sir John Collins, Captain Nelson asked Mr. Scott to go with him as his chaplain; which he was under the necessity of declining, having previously engaged to go with Sir Hyde Parker in the St. George.  During the expedition to Copenhagen, Lord Nelson, not having his chaplain, Mr. Comyns, with him, borrowed Mr. Scott, then Sir Hyde Parker’s chaplain and foreign secretary, to read prayers in his ship; and, on his lordship’s going ashore, he chose Mr. Scott to accompany him, as secretary to the commission for arranging the convention:  the articles of which were, in fact, penned by this gentleman.  Lord Nelson kindly advised Mr. Scott to subscribe the Convention with his name, as secretary; but he diffidently declined the honour:  for which Lord Nelson greatly blamed him; and he has since often blamed himself, as his lordship predicted would one day be the case.  From this period, Lord Nelson was always greatly attached to Mr. Scott, and constantly kept up a correspondence with him.  He had then first asked this gentleman if he would attend him as his confidential foreign secretary, in case of his ever getting the Mediterranean command; which Mr. Scott readily promised to do, should his old friend, Sir Hyde Parker, “be laid on the shelf.”  Had the then war continued, that arrangement would have taken place.  On the peace, Mr. Scott went to the West Indies:  from whence he returned, just before the present war broke out, in a very deplorable state of health; having been struck by lightning, and severely wounded.  He had, however, no sooner arrived in London, than Lord Nelson was at his bed-side:  where the generously humane hero continually visited him, during his confinement; and, soon after, took him, in the Amphion, to the Mediterranean, on this expedition.  It is somewhat remarkable, that his lordship’s regular secretary, though no relation of this gentleman, should also be a Scott:  the former, the Rev. Mr. Alexander Scott; and the latter, John Scott, Esq.  So numerous were his lordship’s correspondences, that both secretaries were often fully employed:  his lordship, from the time of his having engaged Dr. Scott, constantly accompanying his original letters to foreign courts, by translations into the respective languages; a point of etiquette always highly gratifying to the power addressed, and frequently attended with other beneficial consequences.  There was, in short, no point of probable advantage to his country, however minute it might appear, which Lord Nelson ever thought unworthy of his strict regard.