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From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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way, but Mr. Trowbridge went straight on, for none but a sailor would think of opening his first batteries at five hundred yards and his second at two." Whilst lying here, Prince Caraccioli, a Neapolitan admiral, was tried and found guilty-the king being on the trial-although it was under compulsion that he joined the French, therefore he should have been dealt leniently with. However, he was hanged at the yardarm of one of their own frigates. He was buried in the bay, his body being sewn up in a hammock or sack with shot in it to sink if to the bottom.

 
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But I suppose that. it was clumsily clone, for the shot came out and the body rose, and the admiral came up head and shoulders above the water, and was seen by a Neapolitan fisherman, who was doubtless frightened out of his wits, and hastened to bring the astounding intelligence that the admiral was out. in the hay. A boat was sent. accordingly to sink the body in a proper manner. Nelson was much blamed for taking part in his trial.

The French fleet were not in these seas. We sailed with the king and Lord Nelson to Palermo. While we were there the Foudroyant, 80, came from England, as a new flagship, and Nelson shifted to her with all his followers, of whom I was one. Captain I tardy (afterwards his captain at Trafalgar), his lieutenants, and all the officers, quartermasters, and all who had risen to rank by merit, being men whom he could trust in the various posts that they occupied. When we first went on hoard we had nothing to do, and walked about like gentlemen, pointed at by the crew as "admiral's followers,"

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