a contagion caught from the Revolutionary Spirit that
that at the Nore Spithead inspired emboldened the sailors of
the British fleet in the first place the man-of-war's men to rise
against real abuses, long-standing ones, and afterwards
at the Nore to make inordinate and aggressive
demands, successful resistance to which
was confirmed only when the ringleaders
were hung for an admonitory spectacle
to the anchored fleet. Yet in a way analagous
to the operation of the Revolution at large
the Nore Great Mutiny, tho' by Englishmen naturally deemed by
monstrous at the time, doubtless gave
the first latent prompting to those most
progressive important reforms in the British navy .
which for its sailors makes it a service
a contagion caught from the Revolutionary Spirit that
that at the Nore Spithead inspired emboldened the sailors of
the British fleet in the first place the man-of-war's men to rise
against real abuses, long-standing ones, and afterwards
at the Nore to make inordinate and aggressive
demands, successful resistance to which
was confirmed only when the ringleaders
were hung for an admonitory spectacle
to the anchored fleet. Yet in a way analagous
to the operation of the Revolution at large
the Nore Great Mutiny, tho' by Englishmen naturally deemed by
monstrous at the time, doubtless gave
the first latent prompting to those most
progressive important reforms in the British navy .
which for its sailors makes it a service
Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley