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"The sentences of these courts-martial were unknown 

 until the 14th of August, having been sent to Bar- 

 bados in order to be submitted to the Commander-in- 

 Chief, Lieutenant- General Whittingham, wlio approved of 

 the decision of the courts, which was that Donald Stewart 

 (Daaga), Maurice Ogston, and Edward Coffin, should suffer 

 death by being shot ; and that William Satchell should be 

 transported beyond seas during the term of his natural life. 

 I am unacquainted with the sentence of Torrens. 



" Donald Stewart, Maurice Ogston, and Edward Coffin were 

 executed on the 16th of August, 1837, at vSan Josef Bar- 

 racks. ]Srothin<]j seemed to have been neoiected which could 

 render the execution solemn and impressive ; the scenery and 

 the weather gave additional awe to the melancholy proceed- 

 ings. Fronting the little eminence where the prisoners were 

 shot was the scene where their ill-concerted mutiny com- 

 menced. To the right stood the long range of building on 

 which they had expended much of their ammunition for the 

 purpose of destroying their officers. The rest of the pano- 

 rama was made up of an immense view of forest below them, 

 and upright masses of mountains above them. Over those, 

 heavy bodies of mist were slowly sailing, giving a sombre 

 appearance to the primaeval woods which, in general, 

 covered both mountains and plains. The atmosphere indi- 

 cated an inter- tropical morning during the rainy season, and 



