The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

Admhal Lord Nelson.

Few are ignorant of the fact that the great Nel-
son, he who was called by the English the " God
of the Seas," and whose statue rises so proudly in
Trafalgar-square, was one-eyed ; but there is hardly
any one who knows to what accident was due the
loss of his eye, and many who fancy they know it
are far from being accurately informed, if, at least,
we may depend upon the following account which
comes_to us from trustwortlAy__ sources. To begin
with. The " American Cyclormlia," vol. xii., p.
175, relates that Nelson was,ins command of the
Agamemnon off Calvi, under the orders of Sir
Charles Stuart, and that he there lost an eye, being
struck by the sand and gravel thrown up by a pro-
jectile. The " Biographie Universelle des Contem-
porains," iii. 775, states that the loss of Nelson's
eye occurred at Bastia. The same assertion
51821 m. ad, ? in the
Arrieton:s' Conversationscyeiopmiia,
„ Lexicon,"p. G2#,-
xi
,7
is for
Calvi. So that of the authors above quoted,
the Americans refer the occurrence to Calvi,
the Europeans to Bastia. Both are, however,
misinformed, according to the most Excellent Senor
D. Liberato Abarca, General of the Republic of
Nicaragua, to whom we are indebted for the follow-
ing communication :—" About the year 1780 there
cruised along the coast of Spanish America (Central
America) a celebrated Engllth seaman, who was
afterwards to bear the appellation of God of the
Seas.' This man, who was destined to so glorious a
future, followed then the instructions of his Go-
vernmentminutely, reconnoitringthose coasts, suing
for sympathisers with the British trade, which was
then forbidden, and inflicting all possible mischief
on the Spanish colonies and on their material inte-
rests. In the discharge of such duties he entered
the mouth of Juan de Nicaragua, on the Atlantic,
and rowing up the river with an armed force, con-
sisting of various launches and other flat-bottomed
boats, came up within reach of the old Castle. There
he made his arrangements with the energy and ac-
tivity characteristic of English sailors, and deter-
mined to take the Castle by storm. The people
who composed the garrison of the said Castle, awed
by so bold a resolution,made up their mind to aban-
don the place. It is not well known why they
came -to such a decision ; but I may assert, as a
faithful narrator of this event, who have had access
to the official archives of the city of Granada, that
the commander of the fort was seriously ill, and that
his daughter or wife, Dona Rafaela Mora, being
aware of the intention of the garrison, and of their
actual dereliction of their duty, came also to her
resolution, which was worthy of an ancient heroine
of Saguntum or Numancia. Leaving the comman-
der in his helpless state and hastening to the bat-
teries, she soon perceived that the loss of the fortress
was inevitable, and that her father would have to
endure ill usage, and would besides be exposed to the
sorrow and shame of having his name associated
with that national disaster. She looked about the
spot, and without hesitation she took up the still
burying match which the soldiers, on deserting
the place, had thrown on the ground, and, with
manly courage, she fired all the cannons which
she found loaded and pointed at the invad-
ing flotilla. This noble deed was rewarded by
the happiest results that the Senora could possi-
bly have looked forward to. One of the many
projectiles fell on board the boat in which was the
commander of the flotilla, and a splinter of the bul-
wark struck the bone beneath his left eye, knocking
him down as if dead, whereupon the flotilla of boats
rowed back down the stream in the greatest haste.
They reached their ship without any further acci-
dent andleft those waters, freeing thus from danger
the castle of San Carlos de Nicaragua, and covering
with glory the heroine who had alone been able to
save the honour of her father and illustrate the
glory of Spanish arms by repulsing thegreat Nelson,
the God of the Seas,' the hero of Trafalgar. This
is an authentic fact, and rests on documents in the
archives of the city of Granada, of Nicaragua, re-
public of Central America, of which now General
Don Tomas Martinez, descendant of the illustrious
heroine, is President. This lady received by aroyal
decree the brevet of a captain in active service, and
the permission to wear the uniform which was sent
to her as a present together with the decree. She
also enjoyed an annuity from the Government."
We give thanks to General Abarca for his commu-
nication, which we think must interest the reader, as
revealing an incident which is but little known,
but which reflects so much glory on the memory of
one of the daughters of Spain.—Las Novedades.

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