... , in regard to the uprising at the Nore, and he continues: [in] a fleet, the right arm of a Power then all but the sole conservative one of the Old World, the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and ... 's red meteor of unbridled and unbounded revolt. Reasonable discontent growing out of practical grievances in the fleet had been ignited into irrational combustion as by live cinders blown across the Channel from France in flames (Stafford, pp. 11-12). V...

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