I sincerely hope the First Lord will not send a man like you, who are every way so capable of giving an account of your enemy with plenty of sea-room, on duly so scurvy as a blockade." "A man like _me_! Why a man like _me_ in particular?
I trust I am to have the pleasure of Admiral Bluewater's company, advice and assistance ?" "An inferior never can know, Sir Gervaise, where it may suit the pleasure of his superiors to order him." "That distinction of superior and inferior, Bluewater, will one day lead you into a confounded scrape, I fear.

If you consider Charles Stuart your sovereign, it is not probable that orders issued by a servant of King George will be much respected.

I hope you will do nothing hastily, or without consulting your oldest and truest friend!" "You know my sentiments, and there is little use in dwelling on them, now.

So long as the quarrel was between my own country and a foreign land, I have been content to serve; but when my lawful prince, or his son and heir, comes in this gallant and chivalrous manner, throwing himself, as it might be, into the very arms of his subjects, confiding all to their loyalty and spirit; it makes such an appeal to every nobler feeling, that the heart finds it difficult to repulse.

I could have joined Norris, with right good will, in dispersing and destroying the armament that Louis XV.