LORD NELSON AND LADY HAMILTON.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3884, 10 June 1881, Page 3

LORD NELSON AND LADY HAMILTON.

death of Mrs Horatio Nel- * MW'Wwd will probajbly rewire, cays <a 'eaiteppenfyw the old interest about Lady Hamilton and kelson. The nation, in ft'fit of-'Puritanism;^ did not behave gratefully to the-woman and cbild whom Nelson Mqueathed to his country. Lady Hamilton was ito saint. She was a po«r^ and uneducated -girl, dowered with the fatal gift of wonderful beauty, and with aa*y< ethers natural, talents and areomplithments. Her early life was no wdrse (in tpite if exploded slanders), her cWaeter and actions mneb better tban might havvX-fertar-'expeeted. In one way her "" "vMav-ift lapetishable. Her beauty surtfe^itiwpbant and immortal, on tbe , J\m*tnmf' of -Ramney, -and in tbe well ennraTingti after his pictures. In 'vjHldlier' ninety is infinite. , She appears " rjawi keantirol Unglisb girl' in *n English 1 mt% i a> Casiandra, at a Saeebante, as a '", ma|ier, wit^.her distaff, in many another of mythology, history* and actual Itw. Her beauty cotour^d Bomney 's work - ,ftf4Jfßt,ftgira«e,to hi» pictures, of other . ladiea whieb kepi a reminiacence of her. seeaaa, to:ba?e believed that she MTed an English fleet, and won a battle < ftvaa tke^French, by procuring, through tB« QkeM of Naples, proTiaibua to victual i» fwiNit'ib««ld have been a closed port. Htr enemies and their invented tales and HOSMfed" facts 'may 'be said to have * aw*rdispro»ed by Mr Pag^tin bis Essay •«n liatfy Hamilton. It is difficult to * tHSwvV that ifTeison cherished bis deep aajd unbroken affection for any woman w^> was not; essentially noble. She w>s left by Englßad to starve in a little French teaport. France and Greece would honor hat lse Rinott and Aspaaja. We do not _, saytSat England ought tohave_ done so, bet there is & mid course between -half* defying- • K&«4 and erring woman aad ' leavlsg Jber ~to "squalid - and exiled asdigence. , '„>•' -i • •