Although their conduct is infamous, yet their doing wrong is no rule why we should.

There is a general principle which I have laid down for the regulation of the officers' conduct under my command--which is never to break the neutrality of any port or place; but never to consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

It is certainly justifiable to attack any vessel in a place from whence she makes an attack." "I very fully approve every part of Captain -- --'s conduct on the above occasion," he writes to the Admiralty in such a case.
The supplying of convoys, therefore, was ceaseless, for the depredations of the marauders were unending.

"I am pulled to pieces by the demands of merchants for convoys," Nelson said; and he recognized that it must be so, for he entirely disapproved of even a fast-sailing vessel attempting to make a passage unprotected.

"I wrote to the Admiralty for more cruisers until I was tired," he told Ball, "and they left off answering those parts of my letters.