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Our first settlement was at a pretty villa at Alassio, on the Italian Riviera; and here, in March, 1903, looking over my garden, a mass of bloom, shaded by palms and orange-trees in full bearing, and upon the Mediterranean beyond, I settled down to record these recollections of my life making excursions now and then into interesting parts of Italy.
Not many days before Nelson was thus summoned to Genoa, he chased a large convoy into Alassio. Twelve vessels he had formerly destroyed in that port, though 2000 French troops occupied the town. This former attack had made them take new measures of defence; and there were now above 100 sail of victuallers, gun-boats, and ships of war.
Cannes, Mentone, Ventimiglia, Ospedeletti, Bordighera, Taggia, Alassio: was that their fair succession, or did they follow in another order?
For the same object the coasting activity redoubled along the Riviera, from Toulon to the French front. By November 1st a hundred sail transports and small ships of war had assembled fifteen miles behind Borghetto, in Alassio Bay, whither Nelson had chased them. Depots and supplies were collecting there for the prospective movement.
There, too, in the library were collected the decorations bestowed upon him by all the sovereigns of Europe for his successful zeal in hunting down the common enemy "the Corsican Ogre." The palace, inside and out, is a monument to the most famous of Corsican vendettas. My two winters at Alassio after leaving Berlin, though filled with deferred work, were restful.
And one said "Ai! but their dresses are beautiful!" And the other said, "I thought it was mire when they came in, but see, it is all golden!" But another said, "Hush, it is the light from their faces!" And we went down to him. Alassio, Italy. In the dark one night I lay upon my bed.
We made Alassio in the evening, lay to, hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like a mile of porpoises.
As an illustration of the operations then possible, on the 26th of August, six weeks after the naval battle of July 13, the "Agamemnon," with her little squadron, anchored in the Bay of Alassio, three cables' length from the fort in the centre of the town, and with her boats took possession of all the French vessels in the harbor.
We made Alassio in the evening, lay to, hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like a mile of porpoises.
Gyp Campion told me as a fact do you know Gyp? he is in the Hussars, and a tiptop swell in the bargain well, Gyp let out that his brother Owen had proposed to Miss Elizabeth Templeton years ago at Alassio." "Oh, I daresay," indifferently. "I think I must go back to the house now;" it cost Malcolm an effort to be civil. "I will walk back with you. What was I saying?
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