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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Letter signed ('Nelson', as Baron Nelson of the Nile) to Rear Admiral John Thomas Duckworth, Foudroyant, Naples Bay, 12 July 1799.
One page, 324 x 204mm, docketed on verso.
During operations to retake Naples from the pro-French rebels, Nelson requests that three of his captains be excused from attending a court martial. 'The Captains Trowbridge Hood and Hallowell of His Majesty's Ships Culloden Zealous & Swiftsure are now Employed on shore on His Majesty's Service by my Order in besieging the Castle St Elmo and in protecting the Castles of Novo & Ovo in the CIty of Naples. --- It will therefore be impossible ... for them to attend at the Court Martial assembled this Morning for the Trial of Barnard Trayner Private Marine Belonging to this ship for shooting Natale Lobrano a Neapolitan subject belonging to a polacre in this Bay'.
One page, 324 x 204mm, docketed on verso.
During operations to retake Naples from the pro-French rebels, Nelson requests that three of his captains be excused from attending a court martial. 'The Captains Trowbridge Hood and Hallowell of His Majesty's Ships Culloden Zealous & Swiftsure are now Employed on shore on His Majesty's Service by my Order in besieging the Castle St Elmo and in protecting the Castles of Novo & Ovo in the CIty of Naples. --- It will therefore be impossible ... for them to attend at the Court Martial assembled this Morning for the Trial of Barnard Trayner Private Marine Belonging to this ship for shooting Natale Lobrano a Neapolitan subject belonging to a polacre in this Bay'.
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