3 adjectives to describe impressments
There is no evidence to show that even from the middle of the seventeenth century any considerable number of men was raised by forcible impressment.
In 1732 he made a spirited and patriotic effort in Parliament to restore a constitutional militia; and to abolish arbitrary impressment for the sea-service; and, on this subject, he published a pamphlet entitled "The Sailor's Advocate," for which Mr. Sharpe obliged him with a sarcastic preface.
Being importuned to appeal to the British Government on another scorethe impressment of American seamen into the English navyhe determined again to urge upon the Minister of Foreign Affairs a settlement of the treaty stipulations at the same time that he presented the new subject of grievance.