54 WEYMOUTH AND THE WAR, 1802-3. 



Patriotism, the danger and need of their country, then 

 entering on the life - and - death struggle with Napoleon, did 

 not appeal to them. Such considerations passed over their 

 heads in their remote corner of Dorset and then out-of-the-way 

 part of the Kingdom, removed as they were from wider national 

 interests and clinging tenaciously to their lawless pursuits. It 

 is not a pleasant glimpse we obtain. Let us be thankful that 

 later times afford a pleasanter, finer, more patriotic spectacle! 



