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judge me to have been worthy of my ancestors,
watchful of your interests, steadfast in danger,
and undaunted by the enmities encountered in
the public service. These are the temples I
would erect in your hearts, these are the fairest
images and such as will best endure. As for those
built of stone, if the judgment of posterity turn
into hate, they are but dishonoured sepulchres.
Hence I here invoke the Gods that to the end
of my days they grant me a spirit undisturbed
and discerning in my duties towards them and
towards mankind; and hence I ask our citizens
and allies that when I shall have departed this
world, they will honour my life and my name with
their approval and their kindly recollections.”
We climbed up to Damecuta. The old
Emperor knew what he was doing when he built
his largest villa there, next to San Michele
Damecuta commands the most beautiful view
on the island of Capri. I told the ambassador
that many of the fragments found here had come
into the hands of his colleague Sir William
Hamilton, the British Ambassador to Naples in
the time of Nelson, and were now in the British
Museum. Many were still lying hidden under the
vines, I meant to start excavations here in earnest
next summer, the vineyard now belonged to me.
Lord Dufferin picked up a rusty soldier’s button
among the debris of mosaic and coloured marble
slabs. Corsican Rangers! Yes, two hundred
Corsican Rangers were encamped here in 1808
but unluckily the bulk of the English garrison
in Anacapri consisted of Maltese troops, who
retired in disorder when the French rushed the
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