We afterwards called on an old lady--a friend of papa--who told us that she clearly recollected going off from Ryde in a boat with her father and mother, and pulling round the Victory when she arrived from Gibraltar at Spithead, on the 4th of December, 1805, with the body of Nelson on board.  In many places the shot were still sticking in her sides, her decks were scarcely freed from blood, and other injuries showed the severity of the action.