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Reasonable discontent growing out of practical grievances in the fleet had been ignited into irrational combustion as by live cinders blown across the Channel from France in flames.
The event converted into irony for a time those spirited strains of Dibdin – as a song-writer no mean auxiliary to the English Government – at this European conjuncture, strains celebrating, among other things, the patriotic devotion of the British tar –
»And as for my life, 'tis the King's!«
Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not ›impartiality forbid fastidiousness.‹ And yet his mention is less a narration than a reference, having to do hardly at all with de
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