The Life of Nelson
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" My answer," said he, " is ready — Who was I to get it from ? The Govern- ments of Naples and Sicily either knew not, or chose to keep me in ignorance. Was I to wait patiently until I heard certain accounts ? If Egypt were their object, before I could hear of them they would have been in India. To do nothing was disgraceful ; therefore I made use of my understanding. I am before your lordships' judgment: and if, under all circumstances, it is decided that I am wrong, I ought, for the sake of o...ur country, to be superseded ; for at this moment, when I know the French are not in Alexandria, I hold the same opinion as off Cape Passaro, — that, under all circumstances, I was right in steering for Alexandria: and by that opinion i must stand or fall." Captain Ball, to whom he showed this paper, told him he should recommend a friend never to begin a defence of his conduct before he was accused of error : he might give the fullest reasons for what he had done, expressed in such terms as would evince that he had acted from the Digitized by Google LIFE OF NELSON.
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" My answer," said he, " is ready — Who was I to get it from ? The Govern- ments of Naples and Sicily either knew not, or chose to keep me in ignorance. Was I to wait patiently until I heard certain accounts ? If Egypt were their object, before I could hear of them they would have been in India. To do nothing was disgraceful ; therefore I made use of my understanding. I am before your lordships' judgment: and if, under all circumstances, it is decided that I am wrong, I ought, for the sake of o...ur country, to be superseded ; for at this moment, when I know the French are not in Alexandria, I hold the same opinion as off Cape Passaro, — that, under all circumstances, I was right in steering for Alexandria: and by that opinion i must stand or fall." Captain Ball, to whom he showed this paper, told him he should recommend a friend never to begin a defence of his conduct before he was accused of error : he might give the fullest reasons for what he had done, expressed in such terms as would evince that he had acted from the Digitized by Google LIFE OF NELSON.
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