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The Life Of The Right Honourable Baron Nelson Of The Nile, &C.
that glorious day , when Lord St . Vincent , with a far inferior force , beat the Spanish fleet off Cape St . Vincent , and captured four of their largest ships , no inconsiderable share belongs to Nelson . The San Joseph and the San Nicholas , both ships of superior force , struck to him . The sword of the Spanish Admiral , which he received upon the quarter-deck ; and which the Spaniard refused to deliver to any but his Lordshiphe presented to the corporation of
, Norwich , as he has lately done that of the French Admiral Blanquet to the corporation of London . Upon the occasion of the aftion off Cape St . Vincent his Lordshi p was created Knight of the Bath ; and , about the same time , Rear-Admiral of the Blue .
The splendour of great aftions eclipses the refulgence of lesser deeds of renown ; and where a series of brilliant events have distinguished the life of a hero , we are at liberty to dwell upon such of them as principally excite our admiration , and command our praise . " For this reason we pass on to that glorious event in the career of our noble Admiralwhich has enrolled his name for ever in the
, book of fame . The vi & ory of the first of August , and the method by which it ¦ was obtained , are fully known . A few observations , however , upon the tactics made use of by the British Admiral will tend to enhance his nautical skill , because , in two instances , an English fleet lying at anchor had remained safe from the attack of the enemy . The one
was , towards the end of last war , when Admiral Barrington lay in a similar manner to the French line drawn up in the Bay of Bequiere , off the Mouth of the Nile , with a squadron at anchor at St . Lucie ; and when M . D'Estaing , with a superior fleet , ventured not to attack him : the other was , when the same success attended the position of a fleet under Lord Hood in the same part of the world , Opposed the same way to a larger force ; so that a British fleet at anchor may be
considered as so many impregnable fortresses , while British valour afloat Is not less aftive than when at anchor . For a circumstantial account of the glorious action fought off the Mouth of the Nile ' we beg leave to refer our readers' to ' the last Number of our Magazine . The limits of this brief memoir will not allow us to expatiate so amply as we could do upon the merits of an nftion great in every respeft . Suffice it to say that the first of August v-as a proud day for England . We shall therefore confine our
narrative to what is immediately subsequent to the victory ; the news ot which immediately reached the ears of the Grand Signior . As it was manifestly the design of the French General to revolutionize Egypt , as he had done Italy , and to extend his conquests as far as Greece and the islands of tlie Archipelago , no event could be more acceptable to the Ottoman Emperor than the destruction of a formidable fleet , made subservient to these purposes . Upon the arrival of the messenger with the intelligence at Constantinople , the Grand Signior immediately sent to the British Admiral apelice ofthe finest black sable . This stone the Sultan wore on the
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The Life Of The Right Honourable Baron Nelson Of The Nile, &C.
that glorious day , when Lord St . Vincent , with a far inferior force , beat the Spanish fleet off Cape St . Vincent , and captured four of their largest ships , no inconsiderable share belongs to Nelson . The San Joseph and the San Nicholas , both ships of superior force , struck to him . The sword of the Spanish Admiral , which he received upon the quarter-deck ; and which the Spaniard refused to deliver to any but his Lordshiphe presented to the corporation of
, Norwich , as he has lately done that of the French Admiral Blanquet to the corporation of London . Upon the occasion of the aftion off Cape St . Vincent his Lordshi p was created Knight of the Bath ; and , about the same time , Rear-Admiral of the Blue .
The splendour of great aftions eclipses the refulgence of lesser deeds of renown ; and where a series of brilliant events have distinguished the life of a hero , we are at liberty to dwell upon such of them as principally excite our admiration , and command our praise . " For this reason we pass on to that glorious event in the career of our noble Admiralwhich has enrolled his name for ever in the
, book of fame . The vi & ory of the first of August , and the method by which it ¦ was obtained , are fully known . A few observations , however , upon the tactics made use of by the British Admiral will tend to enhance his nautical skill , because , in two instances , an English fleet lying at anchor had remained safe from the attack of the enemy . The one
was , towards the end of last war , when Admiral Barrington lay in a similar manner to the French line drawn up in the Bay of Bequiere , off the Mouth of the Nile , with a squadron at anchor at St . Lucie ; and when M . D'Estaing , with a superior fleet , ventured not to attack him : the other was , when the same success attended the position of a fleet under Lord Hood in the same part of the world , Opposed the same way to a larger force ; so that a British fleet at anchor may be
considered as so many impregnable fortresses , while British valour afloat Is not less aftive than when at anchor . For a circumstantial account of the glorious action fought off the Mouth of the Nile ' we beg leave to refer our readers' to ' the last Number of our Magazine . The limits of this brief memoir will not allow us to expatiate so amply as we could do upon the merits of an nftion great in every respeft . Suffice it to say that the first of August v-as a proud day for England . We shall therefore confine our
narrative to what is immediately subsequent to the victory ; the news ot which immediately reached the ears of the Grand Signior . As it was manifestly the design of the French General to revolutionize Egypt , as he had done Italy , and to extend his conquests as far as Greece and the islands of tlie Archipelago , no event could be more acceptable to the Ottoman Emperor than the destruction of a formidable fleet , made subservient to these purposes . Upon the arrival of the messenger with the intelligence at Constantinople , the Grand Signior immediately sent to the British Admiral apelice ofthe finest black sable . This stone the Sultan wore on the