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" My situation in Lord Hood's Fleet must be in the highest degree flattering to any young man. He treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him : nor is my situation with Prince William less flattering. "
The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes by sir N.H ... - Page 64
by Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844
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The Life and Times of "England's Patriot King," William the Fourth: With a ...

John Watkins - 1832 - 800 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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The life of Nelson revised and illustrated, by the Old Sailor

Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...England at the Peace. the following passage in a letter from Nelson to his friend Captain Locker : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man : he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him." The return of peace, however,...
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The History of the Life and Reign of William the Fourth, the Reform Monarch ...

Robert Huish - 1837 - 806 pages
...writing home to one of his friends, thus speaks of Prince William whilst he was at Jamaica : — " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any tiling I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 972 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced;, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth, Volume 1

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1857 - 462 pages
...respect, His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 954 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 572 pages
...has promised me his friendship." In another letter dated, Off Cape Tiberoon, Feb. 25, 1783, he says, "My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the...am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him." Under this command, he sailed to the West Indies in November, and remained there until the peace with...
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Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B.

Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...Captain Locker he thus mentions his position, and gives an opinion respecting the young prince : — " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest degree flattering to a young man. He [Lord Hood] treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything...
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The Life and Times of William IV.: Including a View of Social Life ..., Volume 1

Percy Fitzgerald - 1884 - 428 pages
...favourable opinion • if UuL ^itllaut young captain, imparted to a friend. The now in the Barjieur. " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with...
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Nelson; the Public and Private Life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson: As Told by ...

George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 pages
...Boreas frigate, of 28 guns, and ordered to Leeward Island Station." " OFF CAPE TIBEROON, "Feb. 25, 1783" My situation in Lord Hood's Fleet must be in the highest degree most flattering to a young man. He treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me...
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