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tains and lieutenants—Other officers—Feeling in the Nore fleet
Charges against surgeons—Trivial charges—Exaggeration—Popular
officers—Need for severity—But real grievances—Improvement after
the mutinies—Thought to have gone too far ... ... 268-279
CHAPTER XX. OTHER GRIEVANCES.
Impressment—No demand for its abolition—Unpopular but necessary—Merchant
and naval services very similar—Limits of impressment—Worst
form : impressment at sea—Long confinement to ships
Common to officers and men—Prize-money—A real grievance unredressed
—Good reason for reforms—Unnecessary evils ... ... 280-288
CHAPTER XXI. A COMPARISON WITH EARLIER
CONDITIONS.
Wages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Nominal wages
the same in the eighteenth century—Purchasing power lower—But no
sudden change—Provisions bad at all times—Improved in eighteenth
century—But "extras" more expensive—Discipline also improved
Fewer savage punishments—Amended Articles of War—Increasing
humanitarian feeling—Conditions in general better than in earlier
times—Need for reform long recognized (by a few people)—Reason for
mutinies : a change in the men themselves ... ... ... 289-296
^ Book VI. The Political Aspect of the Mutinies.
CHAPTER XXII. THE RIGHTS OF MAN.
Some theoretical principle stimulating the movement—Evidence of
political feeling : in petitions ; in the "Address to the Nation "
Desire for liberty—Hostility to the Government—Customs copies from
political societies—Proposal to sail to France—Political feeling in the
Channel fleet—Contemporary opinions : Annual Register; Thomas
Grenville; Admiralty Minutes; House of Commons Report—Presence
of revolutionaries—Influence on loyal men—Earlier agitations—Petitions—Rising
when petitions failed ... ... ... 299-314
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE AUTHORS OF THE MUTINIES.
Quota-men—More discontented than seamen—Some said to have
enlisted to spread sedition—Examples : Evans, a lawyer ; Lee, United
Irishmen ; Bowstead ; Hawkins, Irish Actor ; Parker ; Layton ; Brown ;
Slack, Hagan and Tomms connected with Corresponding Society;
Daniel Price's pocket-book ; George Shave's opinions ; MacCarthy