Though we cannot but lament, with deep sorrow, and heart-felt anguish, the loss of the departed Nelson; despair, while we have so many “heroes of the dark rolling sea,” is a sentiment that can never enter the British bosom. We feel a cheering consciousness of superiority; satisfied that, from the acknowledged excellence of our naval tactics, and the proved valour of our seamen, we must ever retain that superiority; unless, indeed, for some wise purpose, a higher power than that of man should inflict the stroke of defeat.

The first name which we shall inscribe on our Fifteenth Column, is that of Rear-Admiral Domett, another friend of the illustrious Nelson! He is, we doubt not, impressed with a due sense of the honour, as it proves him to be deserving of his country's esteem.

This gentleman, who was born in the year 1754, is descended from a respectable family in Devonshire. In 1769, he embarked, as a Midshipman, under the patronage of Captain Hood (now Lord Bridport), on board His Majesty's ship Quebec, commanded by the present Lord Ducie, and served in that ship upwards of three years in the West Indies. On the return of the Quebec to England, in 1773, when she was paid off, Mr. Domett went on board His Majesty's ship Scorpion, under the command of Lord Keith, in the Mediterranean.