Nelson at Naples: A Journal for June 10-30, 1799; Refuting Recent Misstatements of Captain Mahan and Professor J. K. Laughton (Classic Reprint) by F P Badham (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Nelson at Naples: A Journal for June 10-30, 1799; Refuting Recent Misstatements of Captain Mahan and Professor J. K. Laughton All of us who are true Englishmen hour the memory of Nelson, and it is therefore with some difficulty that, in publishing fresh evidence as to the affair at Naples, I also answer, as I am obliged to do, attacks deuncing me as Nelson's accuser. That role I most certainly shall t accept. But just as it is possible to hour William III.'s memory, or Clive's, or Napoleon's, and yet to tell or listen to the truth in the affairs of Limerick, Omichund, and D'Enghien, so it is in Nelson's case; and it seems to me that patriotism and hero-worship are running riot in a field t theirs, when popular appeals about Trafalgar, prejudicial to impartial historical inquiry, are put forward to induce belief that Nelson committed crime at Naples. Circumstances w force me to this subject again. When I wrote before (English Historical Review, April 1898), bringing forward for the first time in this country the Italian evidence, and Sacchinelli's in particular, it was with the consciousness that other evidence existed which was then beyond my reach. With much of this I have since been furnished by the Marchese Maresca, the chief authority for the period, for whose generous and unwearying kindness (though t meaning for a moment to suggest that he is responsible for the use here made of it) I have words adequate to express my gratitude. Among the authorities so obtained, and new to English ears, may be ted the Memoria of Bocquet, the Rapporto of Lomonaco, and the Memoires of B. N (ardini), temoin oculaire. Above all, there is the newly discovered Compendio dei fatti accadutti in Napoli, a minute of the report drawn up by Micheroux for Acton, which decisively confirms the most suspected statements of Sacchinelli. To this fresh matter something more properly my own will be found added, as e.g. Ruffo's letter of June 26, and the letters from the rebel prisoners, L'Aurora More, Landini. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
