Lastly Nottingham was an honest man; and Russell was a villain.

They now became mortal enemies.

The Admiral sneered at the Secretary's ignorance of naval affairs; the Secretary accused the Admiral of sacrificing the public interests to mere wayward humour; and both were in the right.
[320] While they were wrangling, the merchants of all the ports in the kingdom raised a cry against the naval administration.

The victory of which the nation was so proud was, in the City, pronounced to have been a positive disaster.

During some months before the battle all the maritime strength of the enemy had been collected in two great masses, one in the Mediterranean and one in the Atlantic.