Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. CONTEXTS. Nelson goes to France during the peace.--Re-appointed to the Boreas, and stationed at the Leeward Islands -- His firm oonduct concerning the American interlopers, and the contractors.--Marries and returns to England.--Is on the point of quitting the service in disgust.--Manner of life while unemployed. Appointed to the Agamemnon on the breaking out of the war of the French Revolution. " I Have closed the war," said Nelson, in one of his letters, " without a fortune; but " there is not a speck in my charaeter. True " honour, I hope predominates in my mind " far above riches." He did not apply for a ship because he was not wealthy enough to live on board in the manner which was then become customary. Finding it, therefore, prudent to economise on his half pay during the peace, he went to France, in company with capt. Macnamara, of the navy, and took lodgings at St. Omer's. The death of his favourite sister Anne, who died in consequence of going ont of the ball-room, at Bath, when heated with daneing, affeeted his father so much, that it had nearly occasioned him to return in a few wecks. Time, however, and reason and religion, overcame this grief in the old man; and Nelson continued at St. Omer's long enough to fall in love with the daughter of an English clergyman. This second attachment appears to have been less ardent than the first; for, upon weighing the evils of a straitened income to a married man, he thought it better to leave France, assigning to his friends something in his accounts as the cause. This prevented him from accepting an invitation from the Count of Dcux Ponts to visit him at Paris, couched in the handsomest terms of acknowledgement for the treatment which he had received on board the Albemarle....