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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: Government. While yet a midshipman, he accompanied Mr. Cockburn to
Caraccas and had a sight of Bolivar. In the brigantine GRIFFON,
which he commanded in his last years in the West Indies, he carried
aid to Guadeloupe after the earthquake, and twice earned the thanks
of Government: once for an expedition to Nicaragua to extort,
under threat of a blockade, proper apologies and a sum of money due
to certain British merchants; and once during an insurrection in
San Domingo, for the rescue of certain others from a perilous
imprisonment and the recovery of a 'chest of money' of which they
had been robbed. Once, on the other hand, he earned his share of
public censure. This was in 1837, when he commanded the ROMNEY
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