Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . naA-al Avriters—duringthe Dutch Avars of the CommonAA^ealth and the reign ofCharles II. ; and admirals became gradually less and less hide-bound by Avritten rules, until progress Avas temporarih checkedby the finding of the court-martial in the case of MathcAvs,after the unfortunate battle of 1744 (p. 277). MatheAvs hadventured to quit the line; but as some of his captains, Avith thefear of the regulations b
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . naA-al Avriters—duringthe Dutch Avars of the CommonAA^ealth and the reign ofCharles II. ; and admirals became gradually less and less hide-bound by Avritten rules, until progress Avas temporarih checkedby the finding of the court-martial in the case of MathcAvs,after the unfortunate battle of 1744 (p. 277). MatheAvs hadventured to quit the line; but as some of his captains, Avith thefear of the regulations before their e3-es, if not, indeed, from lessAvorthy motives, had not folloAved him, failure had resulted, andMatheAvs Avas broken. Deterred by the fate of ^latheAvs, ByngAAent to the other extreme, and Avas punished still more seAerelyfor the fiasco of 1756. But these trials, though so lamentable, THE NAVY. 541 1802] and, it may be, so imjiist in their results, had the effect ofclearino- the air. Hawke had been with Mathews, and had beenthe one captain who had properly backed him up. The trial. ADJIIRAL LOUD HAWKE, BY TCAXCIS COTES, {By }xrmissioii of the Ili(jht Hon. Lord Hau-le.) did not affect the strong character of Hawke as it had affectedthe weaker character of Byng. It did not render Hawketimorous about incurring responsibility. Nor did it dauntEodney, who, though he had not fought in the battle off Toulon,had been one of Mathewss proteges. These officers, and 542 REVOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 especially tlie former, seriously studied naval tactics, not as ifthe beginning and ending of them were contained in theFigfhtincr Instructions, but as if tactics were still an infantscience. Independently they came to the conclusion that theremight be better systems of attack than those contained in theInstructions : and, independently, they decided that, Avhen them-selves leading a fleet, they must pay more attention to conditionsof time, position, and opportunity than to
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