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Title: Southey's Life of Nelson
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 Westcott, Allan Ferguson, 1882- ed
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 Admirals
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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inion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and, thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil. With these feelings he engaged in the war. Josiah,^ his step-son, went with him as a midshipman. The Agamemnon was ordered to the Mediterranean, under Lord Hood. The fleet arrived in those seas at a time when the south of France would willingly have formed itself into a separate republic, under the protection of England. But good principles had been at that time perilously abused by ignorant and profligate men;and, in its fear and hatred of democracy, the English 1. Josiah. Josiah Nisbet, the son of Mrs. Nelson by her first marriage (See p. 68). He was later a lieutenant in the Theseus, amicaptain in the Dolphin and Thalia. According to Professor Laughton(Life of Nelson, p. 153), He seems to have been of intemperate habits and boorish demeanor. When drunk, he was violent and insulting. 80 The Life of Nelson 81
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82 The Life op Nelson government abhorred whatever was republican. Lord Hood could not take advantage of the fair occasion which presented itself; and which, if it had been seized with vigor, might have ended in dividing France:—but he negotiated with the people of Toulon,^ to take possession provisionally of their port and city; which, fatally for themselves, was done. Before the British fleet entered, Nelson was sent with despatches to Sir William Hamilton, our Envoy at the court of Naples. Sir William, after his first interview with him, told Lady Hamilton^ that he was about to introduce a little man to her, who could not boast of being very handsome; but such a man as, he believed, would one day astonish the world. I have never before, he continued, entertained an officer at my house; but I am determined to 1. Toulon. The city was recaptured largely through the skill of Napoleon, who commanded the republican artillery, organized the siege,and by training his guns on the British and Spanisoutheyslifeofne01sout

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