E'en the trees drooped their heads, and the tamarind tree died:--all was melancholy: the road is covered with thistles; let them grow.

I shall never pull one of them up." His regard for this attractive woman seems to have lasted through his life; for she survived him, and to her Collingwood addressed a letter after Trafalgar, giving some particulars of Nelson's death.

Her only son also died under the latter's immediate command, ten years later, when serving in Corsica.
The chief interest of the dispute over Moutray's position lies not in the somewhat obscure point involved, but in the illustration it affords of Nelson's singular independence and tenacity in a matter of principle.

Under a conviction of right he throughout life feared no responsibility and shrank from no consequences.

It is difficult for the non-military mind to realize how great is the moral effort of disobeying a superior, whose order on the one hand covers all responsibility, and on the other entails the most serious personal and professional injury, if violated without due cause; the burden of proving which rests upon the junior.