The King's Own - Frederick Marryat - Bog

However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet. Byron. There is perhaps no event in the annals of our history which excited more alarm at the time of its occurrence, or has since been the subject of more general interest, than the Mutiny at the Nore, in the year 1797.