Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CONTENTS. The Agamemnon sent to the Mediterranean.?Commencement of Nelson’s acquaintance with Sir W. Hamilton.?He is sent to Corsica, to co-operate with Paoli.?State of affairs in that island.?Nelson undertakes the siege of Bastia, and reduces it.?Takes a distinguished part in the siege of Calvi, where he loses an eye.?Admiral Hotham’s action. The Agamemnon ordered to Genoa, to co-operate with the Austrian and Sardinian Forces. Gross misconduct of the Austrian General.
Tiiehe are three things, young gentle- man, said Nelson to one of bis midshipmen,
which you are constantly to bear in
mind. First, you must always implicitly (( obey orders, without attempting to form
any opinion 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 Anti- Jacohin war. Josiali, his son-in-law, 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 government leagued itself with despotism: ? a miserable error, of which the consequences will long be to be deplored: for had not England in an unhappy hour, interfered, the rotten governments of the continent would then have fallen: and the continental nations acquiring a revolutionary impulse and strength, at the same time as France, would now have been the rivals of France, instead of her prey. Lord Hood …
