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contest. And to bring these crimes home to the guiltyparties, who ought, and could have stopped such evils, hasbeen the object of this long digression. Again, I repeat,and shall often so repeat, that my object in writing thesememoirs, is not so much for any purpose of giving to theworld the unimportant annals of my unhappy life, as ofcalling attention to all such things as I most sincerely thinkit advantageous to consider with attention, as moral andphysical facts of social importance.
The intelligence of the above capitulation of the repub-licans reached the Queen at Messina in a very few hours.Rage—disappointed vengeance—the cup of patriot blooddashed from her royal lips—her royal claws and fangssheathed in the hateful swaddle of the solemn compact, alltended to drive the royal sufferer to distraction. “ Emma!Emma! Emma ! my friend—” screamed the sister of MariaAntoinette . “ Save me from my friends, and from the eternaldegradation of royalty! Take ship—and try to overtake LordNelson , already on his way to Naples.” “ To you, my lady,”said the Queen, “ we shall owe the dignity of our crown, andall the princes of the earth will participate in the obligation ;you will save us all from the disgrace and fatal precedent oftreating with rebellious subjects.” Then, tenderly em-bracing her, she took her promise to do in all things asrequired. In fact, our Lady Hamilton embarked on boarda swift felucca, or rather galley, soon overtook the hero ofthe Nile , just as he was entering the bay of Naples. Theletters she delivered from the Queen, were both supplicatingand flattering, and terminated by saying, “ want of timeprevents me from stating more in writing ; Lady Hamilton,my advocate and dearest friend, will lay my prayer beforeyou, as well as the anticipated thanks of your affectionateCaroline.”