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Lot 129

"very extraordinary and unjustifiable conduct"
Horatio Nelson

5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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"very extraordinary and unjustifiable conduct"
Horatio Nelson

Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Captain John Fyffe, approving of his conduct ("...I have read with much attention Your correspondence with the Popes Legate at Ancona and also Your correspondence at Venice relative to the very extraordinary and unjustifiable conduct of the Government at that place in seizing Your prizes, and from Your account of Your whole transactions in the Adriatic I have no scruple in saying that I most highly approve of Your conduct, and think that you have acted with that temper and forbearance which our Government must highly approve..."), and wishing that he had some good vessel to offer in place of the Cyclops, one page, 4to, some staining, detached at folds, archival restoration, Victory, off Toulon, 15 September 1803

Footnotes

The following January Nelson wrote to the Secretary of the British Legation at Vienna: "I have received your letter of 1st September last, acquainting me that every possible reparation has been made by the Austrian Minister for the outrage against the British Flag...I am very glad the Austrian Government have seen Captain Fyffe's conduct in its proper light, and that the necessary reparation has been made, as I was perfectly satisfied with the correctness of that Officer's proceedings on the above occasion" (Nicolas, v, p.393). This letter is not published by Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters or White, New Letters.

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