A letter addressed to Captain Berry, Cook and Halfords, Beaufort Buildings, London. Nelson to Berry, glad to hear of his safe arrival in London, and congratualting him on being made a freeman of London. Captain Lejoille of Le GENEREUX was a prisoner of the Turks, Malta is blockaded by Ball, Hood commands in Egypt and Troubridge on the norst coast of Italy.

Administrative / biographical background
Sir Edward Berry carryed Nelson's dispatches from the Nile on HMS LENDER and accompanied by Captain Thompson. Leander encountered the 74-gun French third rate Généreux off Crete on 18 August 1798. In the subsequent action, HMS Leander was captured with a loss of 35 men killed and 57 wounded, including Thompson. The French took her into service under her existing name. The French treated the prisoners badly and plundered almost everything but the clothes the British had on their backs. When Thompson remonstrated with Captain Lejoille of Généreux, Lejoille allegedly answered, "J'en suis fâché, mais le fait est, que les Français sont bons au pillage." ("It makes me angry, but the fact is, the French are good at pillaging.") They refused treatment for Thompson, who had been badly wounded. Leander's surgeon, Mr. Mulberry, was able to remove a musket ball from Thompson's arm only after the vessels reached Corfu on 1 September and he was smuggled aboard the vessel where the French were holding Thompson. Siege of Corfu Awaiting a reconnaissance of Corfu, Captain Lejoille decided to moor Le Généreux in Brindisi harbour. He intended to sail past the fort defending the entrance channel without firing and attack it from behind. However, a navigation error grounded Généreux under the fort, forcing Lejoille to accept a gunnery duel. Lejoille was killed in the subsequent exchange of fire.