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SIE,—Your correspondents "The Authors of 'The Book of the Dots " remark that there cannot be many persons living Who can say that their father fought at Trafalgar. My uncle, Captain Thomas Chtystie, R.N., was in Sir . Robert Calder's action and at Trafalgar in the ` Defiance' (seventy.four) : he was then eighteen. He subsequently had a distinguished career in the Navy. He lived till 1868: he was my godfather and I remember him well. Another uncle, Lieutenant John Chlystie, R.N., was in the 'Victory' with Nelson when he went to the West Indies in pursuit of Villeneuve just before Trafalgar, but on arrival home was promoted -to another ship. He wits First Lieutenant of the ' Tremendous ' (seventy- four) when she conveyed `Queen Caroline Murat 'from Palermo to France in 1814. 'The Queen gave him a diamond ornament which is in the family. He 'died before I was born.—I am,
Sir, &c., GEO. CHEYSTIE, Short Heath Lodge, Farnham. ColonoL
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