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two personages to be the same with a third of Hindoo, or Egyptian, or wild Irish family, having an N, or a D, or a J, or an E, or an A, or an O, in his name. This personage is holding up the dead body of Nelson, wrapt in a sheet, and resting upon what we take to be a cloud; three more little cupids are playing with the dead body, one of them peeping under the sheet: the head is supported by a handsome gentlewoman, decently drest, and with a large pair of wings, holding a trident in her right hand, which she is delivering to an armed virago, who is bending forward to receive the body from the aforesaid Neptune, or Davy Jones; and this transfer of the dead body from a male giant to a female one, is to represent the Immortality of Nelson. Two flying cupids are above steering towards the virago, one holding a wreath, the other a printed label, in the manner of those used at elections.