teries striking the
ground near the battery which he commanded; and driving, with prodigious
violence, some minute particles of sand, or small gravel, into that
tender organ.

Even this shocking event, with all it's attendant anguish, was incapable
of forcing him from his post. With a ribbon tied over his inflamed eye,
he persisted in directing the batteries, till the last fortress of
Corsica had submitted to his sovereign's arms.

Surely, if the total loss of sight in one eye, which himself is said
never to have considered as a wound, did not entitle his name to be
placed in the list of wounded officers, which seems somewhat doubtful,
the gallantry of remaining at his post would never have escaped Lord
Hood, as it seems to have done the Honourable Lieutenant General Stuart,
had he been present on the occasion.

On the 8th of August, two days before the capitulation was signed, Lord
Hood, who had received the thanks of both houses of parliament, for his
very gallant conduct in the expedition against Corsica, voted on Friday,
the 20th of June 1794; when, also, the like thanks were voted to all the
officers, sailors, and soldiers, engaged in that expedition; sent a
letter to Captain Nelson, dated on board the Victory, off Calvi, in
which he inclosed the above resolutions: observing that, having received
his majesty's commands, to communicate to the respective officers,
seamen, marines, and soldiers, who had been employed in the different
operations which had been successfully carried on against the enemy in
Corsica, a resolution of the two houses of parliament; he desires that
he will make known, to all in the Agamemnon, and such other officers and
seamen as are with him, and were employed at Bastia, the sense that is
entertained of their spirited and meritorious conduct.

This, too, which is merely an official letter, has been magnified, by
those who clearly know nothing about the matter, into an additional
honour conferred on Captain Nelson, and said to have been highly
flattering to his feelings.

How his feelings were in reality affected at this period, the reader
will presently have an opportunity of knowing from much better
authority.

In the mean time, Lord Hood sent duplicates of his former dispatches to
the Admiralty, dated on board the Victory, off Calvi, August 9, 1794. He
herewith transmits a continuation of Captain Nelson's Journal, from the
28th of July, to the 8th of August: also, the copy of a lette