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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: and took the Captain-General's receipt. Lord Palmerston approved
his course; but the zealots of the anti-slave trade movement (never
to be named without respect) were much dissatisfied; and thirty-
nine years later, the matter was again canvassed in Parliament, and
Lord Palmerston and Captain Jenkin defended by Admiral Erskine in a
letter to the TIMES (March 13, 1876).
In 1845, while still lieutenant, Charles Jenkin acted as Admiral
Pigot's flag captain in the Cove of Cork, where there were some
thirty pennants; and about the same time, closed his career by an
act of personal bravery. He had proceeded with his boats to the
help of a merchant vessel, whose cargo of combustibles had taken
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