The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-11-23
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son, whose zealoIs AMI sanctimonious oppoaiiion
20 the reform measure in question elected the
flowing satlling but "ower true" family history
ofthe Noble peer, which appeared in the Lond'a
Dispatch Of Aug. e6th. 1t viii be found worth
reading
Iihcyc fle Money Goes Among the loud
,-sttcnsued of The saints who try 10 save Eng
lsn.l b. white SUPPLIES, cricket, ne,iueva arcli-
lecture maths, vespers. and hair shirts is Hoa-
ito third Earl Nelson lie il also one a: the Ion
e.es.-wIndei Of the scniinels of our Zlon against
the incursi,fi If the Gotls Of Dissent and the
most tedious Of the orthodox orators who prove
from Scripture that charity and Brotherhood are
,tnScrois to the national filth On the jew
question he i, particularly up in that style Of
rhetoric which forms q cross hc:vixt bomlnst and
rigmarolc. He has a truc holy horror of I'LL hca-
thcns Whose principle are oppn}ed TO rashcrs on
the coals lie looks for sound fifth in por;butcl
ers. lie is too good for the archbiop of Dublin.
Young England anil Soapy Sam are his Alpha
AMI Omega. Lord JOHN Manners is his prophet
his fworite psalm is
'l.et wealth. md commerce. laws ard learning die;
but leave Us still our old nobility
Now who anl what is this prctcfp'upcrftc
thsistian--this extra, stpcrine Evangelist, wl,u
cannot suffer Jew to come betwiXt the wind and
III nobility! Let II, see. His history an in
siructiyc chapter in the annals Of Financial Re
form Association. Admiral Nelson in eager pun
s,lit Of the French fleet, fen short of provisions
water anil stores, wihou; IN immediate -upp!yoI
wArh he could proceed no further in hi, ch.c of
the enemy. In short there was the darcl Bon
pey, to pty, ar'l M pitch hot. By 'rc1'y oc,wiSt
Napoleon and the Kiiiy Of Naples all British Slips
were prohibited from approaching the shores 81
Sicily. Lady Hamilton by the most cNtraprdia
~ energy oi purpose, The most Singular diploma
Tie skill the greatest courage and the mtt enilu
siastic patriotism, induced the Si'iln cuUr and
cabinet to break tue treaty. to dismiss the French
ambassador, and receive the British ships into the
por. Of Syracuse, from whence, again fitted for
s,a, they started in pursuit, and achieved the go-
rious victory Of tle Nile triumph which certain
ly could not have becn aceomph he'd but b. The
Intervention Of teat dazzling and heroic beauty,
who inspired the alteration and was vanqui,hel
hy The noble deeds, Of the Lion Of the Seas
The diplomacy of Lady Hamilton reused the ven
.,tance Of Napoleon and She barely escaped cap
turc by fastening to the British ships, leaving
.f3oo00 worth Of property in the hands OF the
French
The battle Of the Nile. Of whose success she
WIS the-instTument s,rel? worth something
Tie prize money amounted 10 good round sum.
The victory saved many millions to the British
excncguer, and cost France more. Whatever La
dy Hamilton was in other respects, she WIS IN
honest cte,itor of the nation for 10000 Of a-
hardly AMI honestly earned money rs ever was
paid for lawful service. But, no. Parliament
could give compensation to the ,iS clerks Of ehan
c.rv--it owed n sacred Obligation To peidling
tjwnclerks for the loss Of thcir ciiices-it was
bounl BY h solemn moral obligation to pensionall
Marlbuoughs anu Ellcnhorou5hs and Schom.
bergs, 70 MI eternity, if there should ba no hiatus
IL the bread Bnt Lady Hamilton, who had been
the means C s3sag AMI gaining to the country
ten THOUSAND llacs as much rs these outdoor re
lief paupcrs had robbed IT, was cut or to shil'
linz her fortune ruined and herself left destitute
One jewel after another was sold to keep herself
and her husband from beg5ary. Sir William pc
titoned the government, importuncd George Ill
for compensation TO himself or Il small pension 10
hi> wife; but all in vain. In sglt Of The Traitl
gar fleet Nelson wrote coiril Ia his will fully
narrating the political services OF Lady Hamilton
calling upon his country to reward her, and leay
ing her a legacy to ls sovereign and his nation
Il also leave 10 the bcnifccnCc Of my country my
adopted daughter, Horatil Nelson. These are MI
tJnOrs ask Of my King and country eiMis no
me@t, rteA J dDi going 10 .fdhi their bfHcs. =
When he was shot he ..ll Dr.. Scott that h. left
i.ady Hamilton and Haratia as hs only claim up.
on the nation TO Capt Harly, when lie chbed
faster, he repeated the statement. Hall an hour
before his death he reformed it--with lls last
breath he renewed the cntrea'y. Capt Black
wood placed the will in the hi. i ot the Rev
william Nelson the hero, brother, ant her to his
,i,le. That slintly divine suppressed, cHncedLd
the will. He told neither Lady Ianb of the
government nor the country If is existence he
cause, as it left Lady Hamilton and her daugh er
as legacy Of the tcstator to his country, ana
made 40 mention whatever of him, the Rev VIII
inn Nelson he feared that parliament and the n-
ton AMI the nation would adopt the legacy and
obelient TO the reiterated wishes of the dying
warrior and the bcneftctor of ENGLAND. would
have made large provision for them, and left so
much the less to die a:niable d3interes.ed and
sCrupulous divine
The Rev William Nelson cribbed the colicil
kept it in hi' pocket, worked ont of the gulible
soitncss Of the nation 100000 to himself as the
reward due to n brother who never cared straw
Tor MIN, nor even 50 much rs mentioned his name
and not until he had secured all the money to him
self dill he hand over the codiril to Lady laml
ton, the only human being besides his daughter
fox whom Nelson ever asked his country to give a
frtllng in satisfaction of his own incompensb!c
claims No man had been II more obsequious n
dlla'or If Lady Hamilton during Nelson's life
Ia imI,lored her TO get bishopric for him His
daush'er was placed undor her care for sX wear.
10 educate. he himself was constant resident
IN her house, Whe he received ne wW h. ras hsr
guest Bat the moment he fingered the cash he
cut her experimentation his daughter from her
house affected pious squpamizlmcss of her CON
duc,--dcXterously chissoIled tn, country by q
suppression of legal instrument ont of that pro.
vision which Nelson had left To Lady Hamilton.
rdd resigned that heroine to pcnury, AMI ultimate
IL to absolute starvation. She del in a howell at
Calan ct absolute want-was coilincd in dead
box with an old petticoat for pail stitched on TO
white cTtain-an Irish subaltem read the fm,.
raj service, and she was buried in timber ward
The Earl Nelson' observes Mr. Pettigrew, went
over TO demand Lndy lIamilton's property, but
found only the duplicates of trinkets pledged.
which he wished to take away without payment.
He declined repaying any expenses which had
been incurred
Such is the foundation of the fortune Of the no.
bic family OF Nelson AMI we cannot hesitate To-
assert that il Mr.. Pettrew's uncontradic,cl mar.
ratiye be true tie nest egg of el2OO00, dililc,l
by pious monarch, and the highly respectable
Mr. Arlington from the nation, has been procurkd
upon utterly false pretences Al that Melton as-
ked Of his country was provision for Lady lIamil
ton. The fact was concealed by the Rev William
Nelson, and he obtained his fortuuc by conceal.
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