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that refpeft and obfervance which is due 

 from a petty officer to his commander, 

 the latter was ftill more unadvifed in the 

 method he took for the enforcement of 

 his authority ; of which, indeed, he was 

 jealous to the lafl degree, and which he 

 faw daily declining, and ready to be 

 trampled upon. His miftaken appre- 

 henfion of a mutinous defign in Mr. Co- 

 zens, the fole motive of this rafli action, 

 was fo far from anfwering the end he 

 propofed by it, that the men, who before 

 were much difTatisfied and uneafy, were 

 by this unfortunate ftep thrown almoft 

 into open fedition and revolt. It was 

 evident that the people, who ran out of 

 their tents, alarmed by the report of fire- 

 arms, though they difguifed their real 

 fentiments for the prefent, were extremely 

 affected at this caraftrophe of Mr. Cozens 

 (for he was greatly beloved by them) : 

 their minds were now exafperated, and 

 it was to be apprehended, that their re- 

 fen t men t, 



