"There are some petitions you can draft, and some letters also to the Admiralty and to the Houses of Lords and Commons." "I am at your service," said Dyck.
He saw his chance to secure influence on the Ariadne, and also to do good to the service.

Besides, he felt he might be able to check the worst excesses of the agitation, if he got power under Parker.

He was free from any wish for mutiny, but he was the friend of an agitation which might end as successfully as the trouble at Spithead..