Robert Southey's Life of Nelson
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12 178 TEE LIFE OF NELSON [1799 simple, are siicli notorious villains, fclaat it is a misery to be with them." Oapna, however, soon fell. Gaeta imme- diately afterwards surrendered to Captain Louis of the Minotcmr. Here the commanding officer acted more un- like a Frenchman, Captain Louis said, than any one he had ever met; meaning that he acted like a man of hon- our. He required, however, that the garrison should carry away their horses and other pillaged property: to v/hich Nelson replied, ^...'That no property wliich they did not bring with them into the country could be theirs; and that the greatest care should be taken to prevent them from carrying it away." — "I am sorry," said he to Captain TLouis, ' ' that you have entered into any altercation. There /is no way of dealing with a Frenchman but to knock him / down : to be civil to them is only to be laughed at, when ^ they are enemies. ' ' The whole kingdom of Naples was thus delivered by Nel- son from the French. The Admiralty, hoAvever, thought it expedient to censure him for disobeying Lord Keith's orders, and thus hazarding Minorca, without, as it appeared to them, any sufficient reason; and also for having landed seamen for the siege of Capua, to form part of an army employed in operations at a distance from the coast ; where, in case of defeat, they might have been prevented from returning to their ships; and the}^ enjoined him " not to employ the seamen in like manner in future." This reprimand was issued before the event was known ; though, indeed, the event would not affect the principle upon Avhich it proceeded.
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12 178 TEE LIFE OF NELSON [1799 simple, are siicli notorious villains, fclaat it is a misery to be with them." Oapna, however, soon fell. Gaeta imme- diately afterwards surrendered to Captain Louis of the Minotcmr. Here the commanding officer acted more un- like a Frenchman, Captain Louis said, than any one he had ever met; meaning that he acted like a man of hon- our. He required, however, that the garrison should carry away their horses and other pillaged property: to v/hich Nelson replied, ^...'That no property wliich they did not bring with them into the country could be theirs; and that the greatest care should be taken to prevent them from carrying it away." — "I am sorry," said he to Captain TLouis, ' ' that you have entered into any altercation. There /is no way of dealing with a Frenchman but to knock him / down : to be civil to them is only to be laughed at, when ^ they are enemies. ' ' The whole kingdom of Naples was thus delivered by Nel- son from the French. The Admiralty, hoAvever, thought it expedient to censure him for disobeying Lord Keith's orders, and thus hazarding Minorca, without, as it appeared to them, any sufficient reason; and also for having landed seamen for the siege of Capua, to form part of an army employed in operations at a distance from the coast ; where, in case of defeat, they might have been prevented from returning to their ships; and the}^ enjoined him " not to employ the seamen in like manner in future." This reprimand was issued before the event was known ; though, indeed, the event would not affect the principle upon Avhich it proceeded.
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