. Review of reviews and world's work . li MakfiCMl-LL JNELSONS FLAGSHIP THE VICTORY AT PORTSMOUTH. THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. :m continently sold her. The Foudroyant was Nelsonsflagship, inseparately associated alike with his gloriesand his frailty, and as such she should have beenjealously preserved as an inestimable heirloom bythe nation whom he x)rotected by his valor and glori-fied by his genius. Just imagine what vividness andcolor the Foudroyant might give the story of the oldwars to all Londoners if it were but used as the navalobject lesson. She should be moored opposite SomersetHouse
. Review of reviews and world's work . li MakfiCMl-LL JNELSONS FLAGSHIP THE VICTORY AT PORTSMOUTH. THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. :m continently sold her. The Foudroyant was Nelsonsflagship, inseparately associated alike with his gloriesand his frailty, and as such she should have beenjealously preserved as an inestimable heirloom bythe nation whom he x)rotected by his valor and glori-fied by his genius. Just imagine what vividness andcolor the Foudroyant might give the story of the oldwars to all Londoners if it were but used as the navalobject lesson. She should be moored opposite SomersetHouse, where her great Sea-King Captain lay in statewhen he came back deadfrom the greatest of his vic-tories, and be fitted up fromstem to stern with relics andrecords and pictures of allthe great sea fights by whichEnglish sailors have keptthe seaward wall of Albioninviolate. On the anniver-saries of great naval battlesshe should be beflagged, andher guns should fire a saluteto wake the echoes of ancientglories. Four Old I* W^^^l^ ^^ ^.^
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