text:  The ships shared the infamy; the venerable and noble Caraccioli seventy-five years of age himself an admiral was the first _piaculum_! Summarily condemned by a court-martial _held on board Nelson's flag-ship_ he was executed like a felon and cast overboard from a Neapolitan frigate floating on the same anchorage and subject to the same authority! But Nelson's star was then in the ascendant; the presence and notorious influence of Emma Hamilton in these frightful transactions was unaccountably connived at by the British nation