ARTICLES OF WAR 



must comraence much higher,^ — T^itli the inventors of gmi- 

 powdor, and grape^ and rockets ; or at least, seriously, 

 with the state department ^hich gives out to the British 

 navy these destructives, as munitions of war. Mr, H^me 

 "wilL moreover, have to explain to Captain Farquhar, on 

 tlie map which he has Iiad litliographed,— and on which, 

 to assist an impai'tial judgment, he conspicuously lays 

 down the " scene of the massacre,"— ho must, I say, shew 

 Captain Farquhar in what direction, after allowing tbe 

 pirates to escape, he could have himself escaped from a 

 certain awkward document, the repeal of which I am not 

 aware tliat Mr. Hume ever proposed,* and which m 

 therefore in full force, under the common title, " AuTiCLBS 

 OF Waic,— "to be duly observed and put in execution," 

 says the preamble, " as well in time of peace as in time 

 of war/* 



In the ISthdaiise of this Act we read as follows 

 " Every person in the fleet, who, through cowardice, 

 negiigcncej or disaffection, shfill forhetir to purme die cfmse 

 of any enemy, pirate, or rebel, beaten or fl^ing^ &c., shall 

 suffer death." 



Such is at this monicnt^^ except as to a modification of 

 the pmaishment, the law of the land : Commander 

 Farquhar had accordingly to choose between two com^ses ; 

 one^ that would Etigmatiso him as " cowardly, negligent, 



* ^'Aa Aot for Amooding^ tc, tlict LavFa njlating to tlic gmflrnmeat cf His 

 MfijcBty's diipH, Tca«cb, imd Torm aca, pAfiscd in iliii tircniy-fieaoiid year of 

 tbe reign of EJnj^ George the Second." 



