"Her clear sight showed her at a glance that the vessels in the Mole must be seized if we were to cut the French off from their base, and she soon had the required order from the Queen. But this sad history of the army may have driven everything out of their heads. "Wyndham writes that it is settled that all the cargoes of the Genoese ships should be landed, and all the French privateers disarmed, and their crews sent away. So far I am content. Money is not our object, but to distress the common Enemy. I hope, if Troubridge liked it, he visited the Grand Duke in my stead; I could not have been better represented. The Copy is a d--d deal better than the Original. "_Naples, 10th December._--His Royal Highness, the Great Duke, paid me the high honour of desiring to see me at Pisa; but I was under a sacred promise to return here as expeditiously as possible, and not to quit the Queen and Royal Family of Naples without Her Majesty's approbation. "On the whole, I rejoiced to hear that the cargoes in the Mole of Leghorn will be landed--though I fear that some of it will find its way to the French--and the privateers disarmed, and the scoundrels belonging to them sent away. The Enemy will be distressed, and, thank God, I shall get no money. The world, I know, thinks that money is our God, and now they will be undeceived as far as relates to us. 'Down, down with the French!' is my constant prayer. I hope that the Emperor is marched to support this country; for, unused to war, _its officers seem alarmed at a drawn sword, or a gun, if loaded with shot_. Many of them, peaceable heroes, are said to have run away when brought near the Enemy.