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[Carnillo L. <he...@fu...>]

Ation from? The Governments of Naples and Sicily either knew not, or
chose to keep me
in ignorance. Was I to wait patiently until I heard certain accounts?
If Egypt were their object, before I could hear of them, they would

have been in India. To do nothing was disgraceful;

therefore I made use of my understanding.

I am before your lordships' judgment; and if, under

all circumstances, it is decided that I am wrong, I ought, for
the sake of our country, to be superseded; for at this moment, when I
know the French are not in Alexandria, I
hold the same opinion as off Cape Passaro--that,

under all circumstances, I was right in steering for Alexandria; and
by that opinion I must stand or fall." It was ere long proved that
Nelson _was_ right,
and that Earl St. Vincent had made no mistake in sending him on a
service so important; for we now know that in all the British fleet
there was not another man so admirably adapted for the duty which was
assigned to him, of finding, fighting, and