Pictures from the life of Nelson - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...justified her husband?--writes: "Joy, joy, joy to you, brave, gallant, immortalised Nelson! May that great God whose cause you so valiantly support protect and bless you to the end of your brilliant career! Such a race surely never was run. My heart is absolutely bursting with different sensations of joy, of gratitude, of pride, of every emotion that ever warmed the bosom of a British woman on hearing of her country's glory." The King's Speech on November 10 ran: "By this great and brilliant victory, an enterprise of which the injustice, perfidy, and extravagance had fixed the attention of the world, and which was peculiarly directed against some of the most valuable interests of the British Empire, has in the first instance been turned to the confusion of its authors." Nelson was made Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe. The House of Commons voted him a pension of two thousand a year, and the same sum to the two next heirs to the title. Special gold medals were ordered. Gifts of splendour reached him: a gold box set with diamonds from the Emperor of Russia, a "Plume of Triumph" blazing with diamonds from the Sultan of Turkey. The East India Company presented him with ten thousand pounds. There were many other costly gifts. Two ships, the " Culloden" and "Alexander," were sent to Naples to refit. The King went out to them in his barge, accompanied by a boatload of fiddlers. You will suppose that Lady Hamilton was not far off. She and Sir William went on board in a barge of their own, and they too were accompanied by musicians. All is gingerbread and tinsel. The Queen of Naples on receiving the news of the victory had fainted, recovered, cried, laughed, danced, and kissed everybody she could catch hol...