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NOTES ON BOOKS:- Handbook of Homeric Study 'James Macpherson' Routledge's "New Universal Library" Heinemann's "Favourite Classics"- The Oxford Shakespeare-Catalogue of the Woodside District Library'-Jessel's Bibliography of Playing Cards'. 'Congregational Historical Society Transactions' 'Nelson's Homeland'-' What Nelson Said '-'Sky-High.' Booksellers' Catalogues. = Fotes. NELSON'S SIGNAL. THE grandest address to fighting men before a battle ever uttered is that of Nelson at Trafalgar. But the form of it is perpetually blundered over. Now that the centenary is about to be celebrated with much ado, it is only fit that the true words of the signal should be faithfully given-and yet they scarcely ever are so. A man only a few days ago wrote to the Daily Mail, saying that those who communicated with him on the subject were always wrong; and he laid it down that the right form was, "England expects that every man will do his duty.' Now as this is not the right form, I hope that 'N. & Q.' will point out what the words really were. It will be monstrous if the nation mars them on the celebration of Trafalgar Day-though I regret to say it would be very British if it did so. It is worthy of notice that the hero himself was very near spoiling the signal out of an over-confident vanity. Chance A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate as usual in all great actions, and inventions that are really grand, suggested the perfection of this thing. A forgotten fact will make this now apparent. It is a case of private biography illustrating a momentous instant in history. It is intensely interesting, for, as told in the plain simple letter subjoined, it carries us, as it were, on the round lift and swell of a green wave towards Biscay, to the deck of the flagship, and into the very presence of the one-armed sailor-king himself. It places before the eye the whole thing in the very process of the making of it, and it is honourable to every soul concerned in it. The letter appeared in The Standard, 13 October, 1883, and is as follows: THE FAMOUS SIGNAL. To the Editor of The Standard. SIR,-In reference to a statement in your issue of the 9th inst., relative to the late Admiral Pasco having "acted as Signal Lieutenant at Trafalgar," will you allow me to say that, if the implication is that it was he who had to do with the well-known is not quite correct? What actually happened be"Every man to do his duty" signal, the paragraph fore the action was this. The Admiral gave the order to telegraph the whole fleet-"Nelson expects every man to do his duty." This order was given had been disabled, I believe), but to my grandfather, not to the Signalling Lieutenant of the Victory (who the late George Lewis Browne, who was then serving on board the flagship. 66 My father has more than once heard him relate the incident which then occurred the young Lieutenant's suggestion, half hint, half request, that " England" should be substituted, as that word was in the signal code-book, and could be run up at once; whereas "Nelson" would require six Nelson's prompt and hearty reply was, sets of flags, displayed one after the other; and Browne; that's better." This officer was paid off, as Right, were so many others, in consequence of the war being virtually ended, as far as naval operations were concerned, by the victory of Trafalgar; and it was whilst he was practising as a barrister at the mander. Long after he was given post rank. Western Circuit that he got his promotion as Com I have once or twice seen a curiously garbled version of this little bit of history, in which Nelson is made to have carefully adapted his words on this occasion to the requirements of writers of popular songs. I am, sir, your obedient servant, J. WILLIAM THOMPSON. Cardiff, Oct. 11. Here we have the real form authenticated, England expects every man to do his duty. If this were not exactly the true form, its strength would recommend it in preference; for "that" and "will" in the other form, in place of "to," takes half the pith out of the sound of the thing. Now sailors are particularly strong in the vernacular. A great judge in style ought to know that of the two forms this would probably be the true one. Great commanders, if they do not take to scribbling books, as our generals do now, speak usually, as Cæsar does in his Com mentaries,' in a trenchant way, that makes you think of cutting the words out with a sword from a block of them in the dictionary. Now marine phraseology would not come weakened from the mouth of a Nelson. Caesar, Scipio, Saxe, Czar Peter, Wellington, are all laconic, as if they hailed more from Sparta than from Athens. It shines through even the wit of Napier's "Peccavi," "I have Scinde." Napoleon's "Behold the sun of Austerlitz!" has it, only glistening, as is usual in his case, with the tinselled touches added of the tawdry stage, where they call a man an actor who can, at highest, only mimic men who act. I hope this may prevent the bastard blazon of this high-sea moralizing. C. A. WARD. Walthamstow. [A letter from Mr. G. Carslake Thompson, another grandson of Capt. Browne, with reference to Nelson's signal, was reprinted at 9th S. vi. 45 from The Times of 26 June, 1900. See also the articles on the subject at 8th S. xi. 405; xii. 9, especially the extracts from contemporary and other authorities at the latter reference. With respect to Nelson's signal and also the pronunciation of the name of the battle see CANON HEWITT'S article, post, p. 329, and the references appended. Is not the accuracy of the utterance attributed to Napier disputed ?] NELSON RECOLLECTIONS. YOUR readers may be interested in the following, which, under the heading The Nelson Centenary,' appeared in The Times of 15 September : "Mr. R. Robbins writes from Crouch Hill, N., under date September 14:-I was much interested in the letter which appeared in your issue of to-day relating to Lord Nelson embarking at Portsmouth exactly 100 years ago for his last and most glorious voyage. But I have a personal recollection in reference to the great admiral which goes back further even than Trafalgar; and as I was born in 1817, my recollections are long indeed. I knew well for many years a townsman of mine at Launceston, in Cornwall, who fought as a sailor in the battle of the Nile in 1798 on board his Majesty's ship Swiftsure, which, I have been told, was Nelson's flagship. John Burt was the name of this worthy, and he was born in or about 1767, the year of my own father's birth, and he had the bad fortune, not long after the Nile, to be taken a prisoner of war by the French. When he was released he returned to Launceston, and set up in business for himself as a shoemaker, to which trade he had been apprenticed before he went to sea; and he was appointed by the Corporation to be one of the town sergeants or sergeants-at-mace. He was always popularly known by the nickname of Swiftsure," in memory of the ship in which he had fought, and he died in 1843 or to the 1844. May I add another remembrance which also has to do with the long French war? A number of French prisoners, both officers and privates, were sent to Launceston during its progress; but though they all went home after the peace, one of them returned to the place, where he had made many friends, and, having become attached Methodist body, he was appointed caretaker of the Launceston Wesleyan Chapel. When I was a boy I knew very well this ex-prisoner of war, who was greatly respected in the town, and who died there just before the late Queen Victoria came to the Throne.' 399 An extract from The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine for October, 1844, referring to these prisoners of war in general and the one I myself knew in particular, was given at 8th S. x. 138. I might add, as specially touching my recollections of a sailor who fought under Nelson at the Nile, that on the evening after my letter had been published in The Times the London correspondent of The Manchester Guardian telegraphed to his journal the fol lowing: "A remarkable link with the past comes to my There lives in Stepney an knowledge to-night. aged Jewess, a Mrs. Hart, whose father fought on board Nelson's Vanguard in the battle of the Nile. His name was Richard Barnett, and his daughter, who is now ninety-five, says that he was forced into the navy by a pressgang, and afterwards bought out by his father. Mrs. Hart possesses an interesting log-book, which seems to have been kept by her father during the voyage of the Vanguard, extend ing from December 24, 1797, to January 31, 1800. It consists of eleven faded and worm-eaten sheets of quarto size. There is a fairly detailed account of the battle of the Nile, which is illustrated by a sort of plan of the fight, and accompanied by a list of the casualties. Richard Barnett, who was pro bably one of the first Jewish sailors in the English navy, was born in 1779. His private log-book must have been a contravention of the regulations, but it certainly forms a most interesting document. He died on June 20, 1819. He was an uncle of Samuel Phillips, critic and essayist, whose bust is in the Crystal Palace." The Vanguard, I now find, was the great admiral's flagship in that famous battle, though Nelson just previously had thought of shifting his flag to some other vessel because of her wretched condition; but the Swiftsure, on which my old friend was, did good service in the fight. NELSON'S ROYAL DESCENT. Ar a time when the nation is celebrating the centenary of the great admiral it may not be uninteresting to the readers of N. & Q' to be reminded that Lord Nelson had royal blood in his veins, being seventeenth in direct descent from King Edward I., as the following table shows: |