1. Voltaire's Effect on Melville
"To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would be to London threatened by general arson," writes Melville, in regard to the uprising at the Nore, and he continues: [in] a fleet, the right arm of a Power then all but the sole conservative one of the Old World, the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and freedom defined, into the enemy's red meteor of unbridled and unbounded revolt. ... It can, of course, be argued ...
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