Collingwood an Nelson

October 6, 1805

We shall have these fellows out at last, my dear Lord. I firmly believe they have discovered that they cannot be subsisted in Cadiz: their supply from France is completely cut off. And now, my Lord, I will give you my ideas. If the enemy are to sail with an easterly wind, they are not bound to the Mediterranean; and your Lordship may depend on it the Carthagena squadron is intended to join them. If they effect that, and with a strong easterly wind they may, they will present themselves to us with forty sail. Should Lois, by any good fortune, fall in with the Carthagena squadron, I am sure he would turn them to leeward; for they would expect the whole fleet was after them. Whenever the Carthagena people were expected, they opened the light-house.