Amazon.com description: Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: His due to his men, for the various ships in which popularity they had served during the war. ' The disgust seamen to the navy,' he said, ' was all owins i r i i r I r to the infernal plan of turning them over from ship to ship; so that men could not be attached to the officers, nor the officers care the least about the men.' Yet he himself was so beloved by his men, that his whole ship's company offered, if he could get a ship, to enter for her immediately. He was now, for the first time, presented at court. After going through this ceremony, he dined with his friend Davison, at Lincoln's Inn. As soon as he entered the chambers, he threw off what he called his iron- bound coat; and, putting himself at ease in a dressing-gown, passed the remainder of the day in talking over all that had befallen them since they parted on the shore of the river St. Lawrence. CHAPTER II ' T HAVE closed the war,' said Nelson, in one of his letters, ' without a fortune ; but there is not a speck in my character. True honour, I hope, predominates in my mind far above riches.' He did not apply for a ship, because he was not wealthy enough to live on board in the manner which was then become customary. Finding it, therefore, prudent to economise on his half-pay during the peace, he went to France, in company with CaptainMacnamara, of the navy, and took lodgings at Retires to St. Omer's. The death of his favourite sister, France Anne, who died in consequence of going out of the ball-room, at Bath, when heated with dancing, affected his father so much that it had nearly occasioned him to return in a few weeks. Time, however, and reason and religion, overcame this grief in the old man ; and Nelson continued at St. Omer's long enough to fall in love with the daughter of an English clergyman. Th...