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Your methods, so far as this court can discern, show what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal. We cannot condemn zeal. We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline according to the articles of war but the articles are fallible, as any articles are bound to be. No code can cover all contingencies. We cannot put justice aboard our ships in books. Justice and decency are carried in the heart of the captain, or they be not aboard. It is for this reason that the Admiralty has always sought to appoint its officers from the ranks of gentlemen. The court regrets to note that the appointment of Captain William Bligh was, in that respect, a failure
Your methods, so far as this court can discern, show what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal. We cannot condemn zeal. We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline according to the articles of war but the articles are fallible, as any articles are bound to be. No code can cover all contingencies. We cannot put justice aboard our ships in books. Justice and decency are carried in the heart of the captain, or they be not aboard. It is for this reason that the Admiralty has always sought to appoint its officers from the ranks of gentlemen. The court regrets to note that the appointment of Captain William Bligh was, in that respect, a failure
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Your methods so far as this court can deserve
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showed what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal
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We cannot condemn zeal
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We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline
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according to the Articles of War
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but the articles are fallible as any articles are bound to be
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No code can cover all contingencies
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We cannot put justice aboard our ships in books
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Justice and decency are carried in the heart of the captain
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or they be not aboard
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It is for this reason that the Admiralty
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has always sought to appoint its officers from the ranks of gentlemen
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The court regrets to note that the appointment of Captain William Bligh
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was in that respect a failure
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Movie Summary
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
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