"I should not be surprized at seeing a French Army conveyed by a British Navy to an attack upon this Kingdom."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Letter to French Laurence (12 May 1797) after hearing of the mutinies in the Royal Navy, quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume IX: May 1796–July 1797 (1970), p. 333