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conduct of the men, both on shore and on 

 board ; and we have had undeniable proofs 

 in the Crimea and in India, that a high 

 religious feeling is not incompatible with 

 personal bravery, any more than clerical 

 instruction is with scientific acquirements 

 in the art of war, although it may not 

 require such religious fervour in these 

 times, as animated the soldiers of the com- 

 monwealth, to make a vigorous and mur- 

 derous onslaught successful. 



This, then, was the ground of dispute; 

 and those two gallant officers held different 

 and opposite opinions upon a practice that 

 one had sanctioned and the other con- 

 demned. 



The report then current was, that the 

 rear-admiral, being very much annoyed at 

 the instructions brought on board his ship 

 by Lord Gambier's flag-lieutenant, that the 

 command of the squadron destined for the 

 destruction of the enemy was to be given 

 to Lord Cochrane, an officer of a lower 



