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Poverty - by James Platt

the six prizes to England with six English ships, we left the rest to cruise off the Egyptian coast and watch the French. We passed through the Faro de Messina. When off Stromboli we lost our jury foremast in a white squall, and signalled to the Thalia frigate to take us in tow. When we arrived at the Bay of Naples Sir William and Lady Hamilton came on board to congratulate the admiral on his success. When we anchored, the bay was covered with boats crowded with people, who cheered us heartily. The admiral went on shore with them, and was enthusiastically received by tens of thousands of people. We were now very busy refilling the ship, repairing the foremast, and other damages received in the white squall. These finished, we sailed with troops for Leghorn, landed them, and returned to Naples. Whilst there the French armies had overrun Italy very rapidly, the Neapolitan soldiers making scarcely a show of fighting, but invariably retreating when the French were in sight. Ferdinand, their king, always. remembered this; for his minister, a few years after