The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1Harrison, James
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The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
Harrison, James
Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography; Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
With the highest pleasure, I received your esteemed favour,
proceeding from your generous and well-disposed mind; since, on my
part, I conceive, no laurel is due to him who only fulfils what
humanity dictates: and I have done no more, in behalf of the
wounded men, as well as others who disembarked; and whom, after
all warfare has ceased, I ought to consider as brothers.
"If, in the state to which the uncertain fate of war has led you,
it were in my power, or could any thing that this island produces
afford the least comfort or aid to you, it would yield me the
truest satisfaction: and, I hope, you will admit of a couple of
large flasks of Canary wine; which, I believe, is none of the worst
that this island produces.
"A personal intercourse will give me great pleasure, when
circumstances permit it, with a person so deserving, and of such
distinguished qualifications as you so feelingly indicate.
Meantime, I pray God to preserve you in his holy keeping; and am,
Sir, your most obedient servant,
"Don Antonio Gutierrez.
"P.S. I have received, and highly esteem, the cask of beer, and
cheese, which you have done me the favour to send me."
"Rear-Admiral Nelson."
On the 27th of July, there was a solemn Te Deum sung by the Spaniards,
in the parochial church of Santa Cruz: that day being the festival of
St. Christopher, the tutelary patron of the island; on which an annual
thanksgiving is celebrated, as being the identical day when that island
was first conquered, three hundred and one years prior to this period.
Such are the chief particulars of the Spanish account, as supplied by
Sir John Talbot Dillon's most respectable translation; and which places
in a very amiable point of view the characters of the respective
commanders.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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