THE ADVANTAGES ARISING FROM GOOD ORDER ON THE ONE
HAND, AND THE DISASTERS ATTENDING THE WANT
OF IT ON THE OTHER.

BY CHRISTOPHER BIDEN,

Late Commander of the Honourable East-India Company's Ships Royal George
and Princess Charlotte of Wales.

"SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE."

LONDON:

J. M. RICHARDSON, 23, CORNHILI.

1830.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
BILSEN FOUNDATIONS.

THE

NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

7027

enox and Tilden
Foundations.
1896

Presented by 2. P. Avery

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY;

TO THE

ELDER BRETHREN AND CORPORATION OF
THE TRINITY HOUSE;

TO THE

HONOURABLE THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY;

AND TO THE

MERCHANTS, UNDERWRITERS, AND SHIP-OWNERS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN;

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THEIR FAITHFUL SERVANT,

CHRISTOPHER BIDEN.

MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-COURT.

PREFACE.

THE following pages exhibit such glaring proofs of insubordination, and unfold so much cause for alarm, that I have every confidence the most prejudiced person will yield to the necessity of our maritime interests being protected and governed by an efficient code of laws. Imperious necessity has lifted the hand of power against mutiny and outrageous revolt, and by a prompt display of firmness these evils have been quelled; but let the imagination. dwell upon the horrors of a conflict between a commander and his officers and a mutinous crew, where the numbers are greatly disproportioned, and the scene of action the confined space of a ship's decks, without any well defined or legal authority to guide the one party or the other! Surely, then, the true friends