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Title: Naval courts martial
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hannay, David, 1853-1934
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- Great Britain Naval law -- Great Britain
Publisher: Cambridge, Eng. : University press

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than the corresponding military sin of cutting harness. If it had had its effect the guns would have broken loose. The lives of men and the ship herself would have been endangered—perhaps destroyed. That Nelson risked his own life with others shows the utter recklessness of his type. But the statement of Lieutenant Richardson, who appears to have been by far the most clear headed man concerned in the whole transaction, and who was not contradicted, proves that the Belliqueux was a regular built privateer, and that two years after the mutinies of 1797 the leaven of mutinous disorder was still working in the fleet in the North Sea. No doubt her crew had fought finely at Camperdown, and Nelson may well have done his duty among the best. The fact is that he and his like delighted in a fight. They rejoiced in a set to with the Dutch every whit as gaily as they did in collaring and beating a petty officer. * Spencer Percival, Solicitor-General, Prime Minister in 1809, who was murdered by Bellingham in 1812.
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The Execution of Richard Parker IV) MUTINY 141 When the occasion fitted the virtue they served their country in a way congenial to themselves. When, "suadente diabolo", they broke out against discipline, they beat officers, ran away piratically with the ships boats, cut the breechings and tackles of great guns on the main-deck in gales, or, rising to altitudes of disorder, mutinied in the Hermione, the Marie Antoinette,and the Danae, with or without murder. Tradition dies hard among sailors. The old tendency to mutiny did not disappear till the beginning of the present generation. CHAPTER V MURDER When we find that, between 1755 and 1778, more than fifty Courts Martial were held in the Navy on men accused of murder, at the rate, that is to say, of just over two a year, it is but natural that we should be shocked. Nevertheless it is the fact that The Index and Compilation of Courts Martial from 1755 to 1805 register that number of murder trials in those years. After 1778, the cases become rarer, though

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