? ? ? ? Though after parleyings between Government and the ringleaders, and concessions by the former as to some glaring abuses, the first uprising- that at Spithead- with difficulty was put down, or matters for the time pacified; yet at the Nore the unforeseen renewal of insurrection on a yet larger scale, and emphasized in the conferences that ensued by demands deemed by the authorities not only inadmissible but aggressively insolent, indicated- if the Red Flag did not sufficiently do so- what was the spirit animating the men. Final suppression, however, there was; but only made possible perhaps by the unswerving loyalty of the marine corps and voluntary resumption of loyalty among influential sections of the crews.
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