HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
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Causes of Discontents in the British Navy and Army.—Notices given of 
these Discontents.—Mutinous Comlination among all the Ships in tie 
Channel Fleet. Organization of this Naval Democracy.— Petitions from 
» the Mutincers to the Admiralty ard the House of Commons.—Generai 
Alarm.—The Board of Admiralty transferred to Portsmouth.—Con- 
ciliatory Terms of a Return to Subordination and Duty proposed to the 
‘Seamen.— Demands of the Seamen —Complied with.—In consequence of 
a Mistrust of Government, a fresh Mutiny.—Zealous, prudent, and suc- 
5 cessful, Exertions of the Earl Howe.—The Affairs of the Navy with the. 
Estimates of the additional Expences now become-necessary, brought into 
the House of Commons-—Ministry accused of Procrastination and scan= 
dalous Neglect of Duty.—Motion for a Vote of Censure —Negatived.— 
4 Mutiny, more alarming still than thatin the Chaunel Fleet, breaks out 
at the Nore.—A Board of Admiralty held at» Sheerness.—Audacious 
Behaviour of the Mutineers. ~The Lords of the Admiralty return from 
Sheerness to Town, without the least Success in their Endeavours for the 
Restoration of Order.—Tnansactionsin the Fleet at the Nore.—Condemned 
by the Divisions of the Fleet at Plymouth and Portsmouth.—As wel!.as 
by the Nation at large. —Intelligence of this produces, in the Ships Crews, 
at the Nore, Divisions, Terror, and Despair.—The principal onductor 
of the Mutiny seixed, condemned to Death, and executed.— Bul for pre= ~ 
venting the Seduction of Soldiers and Sailors. 
HE seamen and soldiers in the 
: British navy and army bad 
Jong complained of the smallness of 
their pay, and that, contrarily to the 
clearest justice, it continued the 
same as when. the ‘price of neces- 
saries, and of all articles, was in- 
comparably lower than at the pre- 
sent period. They were not alone 
in this complaint; it was justified 
by the concurrence of all men. 
Those who endeavoured to excul- 
pate government, alleged, the mal- 
tiplicity of business, in which those 
at the helm were incessantly in- 
volved, and that with the best in- 
tentions, it was notin their power 
to remedy the abuses that had crept 
into the various departments of the 
state: But this exculpation was 
trite and obsolete in the opinion of 
the equitable part of the public; 
and the patience with which so re- 
solute a class of men had'so long 
submitted toa treatment which they 
did not certainly deserve, was much 
more an object of surprise, than the 
determination they eame to finally, 
to insist upon, and.toenforee.a re+ 
divess of their grievances, 
Other causes have been assigned 
for the discontents that prevailed in 
the 
