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Page 45
I find, that you fascinate all the navy as much at Palermo as you
did at Naples. If we had many such advocates, every body would be a
candidate for our profession.
God bless, and protect, you and Sir William. May prosperous gales
attend you! May you live a thousand years!
Believe me, with sincere respect and esteem, my dear Madam, your
Ladyship's most devoted and obliged servant,
ALEXANDER JOHN BALL.
23d February 1799.
Letters
FROM THE
EARL OF BRISTOL,
_Bishop of Derry, in Ireland_,
TO
LADY HAMILTON.
Letters OF THE EARL OF BRISTOL, _Bishop of Derry, &c_.
I.
Naples, Sunday Morning,
[1795.]
I return you the inclosed, my Dearest Emma, which does equal honour
to the excellent head and heart of the writer. I shall begin, for the
first time of my life, to have a good opinion of myself, after such
honourable testimonials.
In the mean time, I send you an extraordinary piece of news, just
written me from Ratisbon--a courier from the Elector of Mentz,
desiring _the Empire_ to make a separate peace with France.
Couriers have been sent from the Diet to Sweden and Denmark, desiring
their mediation: "and it is clear," says my letter, "_Somebody_ is at
the bottom of all this; the Elector of Mentz only lends his name."
The suburbs of Warsaw taken; the capitulation of the city daily
expected.
The King of Prussia totally retired beyond Potsdam, and supposed to be
at the eve of madness.
Oh! Emma, who'd ever be wise,
If madness be loving of thee.
B.
II.
Munich, 14th July 1795.
Dearest Emma,
Here is great news from England. My letters of the 26th June assure
me, seven thousand men are embarked for St. Pol de Leon, together with
an immense number of emigr�s--that, the week before, a bishop, and
sixty priests, were most prosperously landed at the same place, and
received with the greatest acclamations--that six sail of the line
from Russia, were in sight, and the pilots gone to conduct them--that,
in Amsterdam, and other towns of Holland, there is the greatest
insurrections in favour of that fool the Stadtholder. All this,
however, can only tend to facilitate peace, but not at all to restore
that despicable, odious family of Bourbons--the head of which is now
at _Verona_, where we left him eating _two capons_ a day; ('tis a pity
the whole family are not _capons_!) and, what is more, dressing them
himself in a superb kitchen--the true chapel of a Bourbon Prince.
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