40 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Roads important ; and was per- 

 suaded that the public thought 

 more highly of that noble lord 

 since the court-martial, than be- 

 fore it. He, for his part, would 

 give thanks to lord Gambler, not 

 only for having destroyed the 

 enemy's ships, but also for having 

 withstood that advice which was 

 calculated to hurry him into a 

 course of conduct, the conse- 

 quence of which must have been 

 great loss to the fleet which he 



commanded. — The earl of Darn- 

 ley had no objection to the vote 

 of thanks, but at the same time 

 he thought this one of the efforts 

 now too commonly resorted to, 

 by voting thanks to the officers 

 employed, to throw a lustre on 

 the government. 



The question was then put and 

 agreed to. Votes of thanks to the 

 other officers, non-commissioned 

 officers, sailors and marines, were 

 also passed nem. con. 



