The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-04 00:00:00

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Pin DAT —norning 22 min. after 8 Evening 5 Tn;:n .aft. 9
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THE WEATITER.--Strg OFFICH, MARCH 4.
THERMOUETER, ET THE SHADE.
sinco noon yesterday.
23—lowest this morning and during the night.
35—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'17.

WIND, variable from W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Fine,; clear,
sunshiny weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1853.

NELSON'S DAUGHTER.

" Westminster Abbey or Victory !" It was
the battle-cry of the noblest, the truest,, the
bravest of the hero-sons of England. It was the
exclamation with which he signalised the migl atiest
of his many glorious achievements. It was with
this ejaculation on his lips that he bore dow n his
ship " The Captain" (74) on the 14th of Febmary,
1797, upon the Spanish squadron, under Ad) -Ural
CORDOVA, and, by a memorable disobedien.3 e of
orders, won the great fight of St. Vincent--4 tfter
boarding the " San Josef " (112) and the " San
Nicholhs" (74), and grappling with a still 'more
formidable antagonist (136), the " Santi s,sima
Trinidada." It was with that sentiment i n his
heart that he succeeded, on the Ist of Au gust,
1798, in utterly destroying the French fleet,
under Admiral BRUEYS, in the wonderful a ction
of the Nile—an action fought at anchor, ai n 1 at
midnight, for which and other reasons it has been

regarded by. our naval historians as in man y re-
spects altogether unparalleled. It was with the
same magnificent alternative burning in, his
bosom, firing his valour, inciting his
genius, and exalting his enthusiasm, -that
he effected on the 2d of April, 1 801,
that extraordinary conquest at Copenhagen, which
was at once a triumph of courage and a triu a iph
of diplomacy. It was animated by the same ar-
dent aspiration that he gained the crowning gl'.c.ry
of his career on the 21st of October, 1805, pur-
chasing the final victory of British arms upon tile
ocean off that fatal Cape of Trafalgar, with - the
very name of which his memory has been e•. Ter
since identified.

-HORATIO NELSON gave everything to his COP Di-
try He devoted himself from a child to the
cause of patriotism. He dedicated to its sacr ed
interests all the energies of his impassioned toe
perament. He offered up to the service of Ervig-
land all the force of his genius, all the ardour of
his daring, every personal comfort, every priva to
or merely selfish consideration. He sacrificed for
her his scanty fortunes, his health, his time, and
at last his very existence. His bodily wounds are of
all this surely sufficient attestation. He lost an amn,
having his right elbow perforated
by a mull cet-
ball, at Teneriffe. Re lost an eye, upon another
d. encounter.
occasion, in a hand-to-sand
He :had
his forehead, so to speak, scalped by a lanoTi
due
shot, during the carnage in the Bay of Aboukir
Although merely forty-seven when he died, •
age very wonderful considering all his as tonisthanl
achievements—his frame was so battered a'-nd
maimed by hard usage, that life seems only to
have been sustained through all those shocks and
disfigurements by the innate vigour of his still
youthful constitution. Comparatively brief thorgh
his existence was, beginning on the 29th of Sop-.
tember, 1758, and ending on the 21st of October,
1805, it nevertheless comprised more suffering
than is frequently endured by a score of octoge-
narians, besides being illustrated during four-and-

thirty years of active service in the maritime pro-
fession, by deeds of valour sufficient to build up
a dozen heroic reputations. The service began at
thirteen on board the " Raisonnable," and ended
only with death, appropriately, it must always be

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felt, on board the " VICTORY." And from first to
last there was manifest the same zeal, and the
v..„..... same dauntless set sacrifice—the Admiral display-
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fr
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j,_ , - i.- ,*r;, a Captain. We address ourselves to a
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