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The Naval History of Great Britain, From 1793, to 1820, With an Account of the Origin and Increase of the British Navy (2)
The Naval History of Great Britain From 1793 to 1820 With an Account of the Origin and Increase of the British Navy - 2 Author:William James Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a m... more »illion books for free. Excerpt: CRUISE OF REAR-ADM. BRUEYS. -- MUTINY AT THE NORE. 91 detached from the british fleet, then lying in the 1797. Tagus, the 50-gun ship Leander, captain Thomas 1v" Boidden Thompson, the Harmadryad frigate, and a sloop of war, to Algiers, to settle some dispute with the dey; a service which captain Thompson executed to the approbation of the admiral. About this time a small british squadron, associated with five portuguese sail of the line, cruised off Cadiz and in the neighbourhood of the Straits, to prevent the french ships at Toulon, or the few spanish ones at Carthagena, from effecting a junction, if such was their object, with the fleet of admiral Massaredo at Cadiz. The concessions made by government to the sea- May. men of the Channel fleet necessarily comprehending the whole british navy, it was justly considered, that any lurking disaffection, that might exist in detached quarters of it, would disappear, the instant the benefits, of which all were to partake, became generally known. Hence a mutiny that had broken out at Sheerness on the 10th of May was expected to subside of itself, when the accounts of what had occurred at Portsmouth on the 15th should have reached the malecontents. Unfortunately the news seemed to fan, rather than extinguish the flame; and, by the 20th of the month, many of the ships lying at the Nore, and, soon afterwards, nearly the whole of those belonging to the North-sea fleet, hoisted the flag of defiance. The complaints of the Portsmouth mutineers having been, for the most part, founded on justice, the sympathy of the nation went with them; and very few perso...« less