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The Life Of The Right Honourable Baron Nelson Of The Nile, &C.
THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARON NELSON OF THE NILE , & c .
[ CONCLUDED rsoM v . 289 . ]
'T'HIS surely is an event in the life of our hero that would have ¦ " ¦ handed his name down to posterity clothed with immortal honour . But he was destined to give fresh proofs of signal heroism ; it was to be his lot to shine with greater splendour ; he was to add , by a series of glorious actions , another name to . the page of our naval biography , gilded with that intrinsic worth , which creates admiration , and excites sensations of
pleasure . A fortunate concurrence of circumstances sometimes tends to enhanc * the disclosure of merit—and' when they so fall Out as to prove of great advantage to a nation at large , it is not improbable that the commendation we ascribe to the agent mi ght be the natural consequence of the efficient cause .
This , without depreciating merit , has certainly been the case . But nothing ascribed to chance or fortune can derogate from the honour of Nelson . We shall be enabled to shew that in the pursuit of his naval career , no danger has suppressed his spirit of bravery , and no enterprize , however difficult in the execution , has damped his ardour .
Whatever events turned up he faced them like a British sailor , Who resolved to benefit his country as far as he could ; and , if Providence so ordered his fate , to die in her cause . Upon quitting his station in the Mediterranean , he returned to his native country ; -. and as there was no immediate call for his services , retired with Mrs . Nelson , his present lady ,- whom he had latel y * married and who the widow of Nesbit
, was Dr . , of Nevis , and niece to the governor ofthe island , to the parsonage house at Burnham-Thorpe , which his father , preferring a residence in the neighbourhood , gave up to him . In this retreat his Lordshi p enjoyed the olimn " emu ' ranqjiiUitate of a domestic life . He might have said' Inveni portum . Spes et-Fortuna valete ! Sat me lusistis : Indite nunc alios . '
' -But he was destined for future scenes of attion . By his Lady the Admiral has no family : the former , however , had a son by her first marriage . Mr . Nesbit is a Post-Captain , and has sfcrved under his Lordship during the whole of the present war . In a profession like the naval , calculated to raise heroes , bv "tiring the mind to difficulty and enterprize , it would be unjust to ^( of-one character at the ' expence of others ; yet in the triumph of
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The Life Of The Right Honourable Baron Nelson Of The Nile, &C.
THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARON NELSON OF THE NILE , & c .
[ CONCLUDED rsoM v . 289 . ]
'T'HIS surely is an event in the life of our hero that would have ¦ " ¦ handed his name down to posterity clothed with immortal honour . But he was destined to give fresh proofs of signal heroism ; it was to be his lot to shine with greater splendour ; he was to add , by a series of glorious actions , another name to . the page of our naval biography , gilded with that intrinsic worth , which creates admiration , and excites sensations of
pleasure . A fortunate concurrence of circumstances sometimes tends to enhanc * the disclosure of merit—and' when they so fall Out as to prove of great advantage to a nation at large , it is not improbable that the commendation we ascribe to the agent mi ght be the natural consequence of the efficient cause .
This , without depreciating merit , has certainly been the case . But nothing ascribed to chance or fortune can derogate from the honour of Nelson . We shall be enabled to shew that in the pursuit of his naval career , no danger has suppressed his spirit of bravery , and no enterprize , however difficult in the execution , has damped his ardour .
Whatever events turned up he faced them like a British sailor , Who resolved to benefit his country as far as he could ; and , if Providence so ordered his fate , to die in her cause . Upon quitting his station in the Mediterranean , he returned to his native country ; -. and as there was no immediate call for his services , retired with Mrs . Nelson , his present lady ,- whom he had latel y * married and who the widow of Nesbit
, was Dr . , of Nevis , and niece to the governor ofthe island , to the parsonage house at Burnham-Thorpe , which his father , preferring a residence in the neighbourhood , gave up to him . In this retreat his Lordshi p enjoyed the olimn " emu ' ranqjiiUitate of a domestic life . He might have said' Inveni portum . Spes et-Fortuna valete ! Sat me lusistis : Indite nunc alios . '
' -But he was destined for future scenes of attion . By his Lady the Admiral has no family : the former , however , had a son by her first marriage . Mr . Nesbit is a Post-Captain , and has sfcrved under his Lordship during the whole of the present war . In a profession like the naval , calculated to raise heroes , bv "tiring the mind to difficulty and enterprize , it would be unjust to ^( of-one character at the ' expence of others ; yet in the triumph of