It was not to be thought of that any of the race of those who, a few
years later, made the press-gang afraid to show their noses in the
west, would allow Justice Jones to continue to act oppressively. It was
about this time that upwards of four score men from St. Just, and
scores from other western parishes, volunteered to man the Nymph, and
went off in crowds to their Captain Pellew (whether he wanted them or
no, they wouldn’t leave his ship, unless some few of them were to go a
privateering, when he couldn’t tell what to do with all his Cornish
crew.) But this is a matter of history, that all know or ought to know:
above all, how he would never suffer any of his Cornish crew to be
flogged, and, if old men’s tales are true, he allowed them such
licence, when not in action, as the martinets of the service would now
think very irregular.