MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. ,183 



Coated May id, 1797, and which has fince been 

 publillied, ay-, 



** I fincercly vvi(h (as do all the fhip's com- 

 " pany,) that we were now laying at Port- 

 ** Jackfcn, delivering our precious cargOy inftea.d 

 " of Torbay ; for the foldiers are the nnoft dif- 

 " agreeable, mutinous fet of villains that ever 

 " entered > to a fhip. — Two of the ferjeants 

 " behaved fo ill, that Captain Willcocks was 

 *' obliged to inOft upon their commanding offi- 

 *' cer confining them in irons; for they have 

 *' their own officers on board, and the Captain 

 " and officers of ihe fhip have no power over 

 " them. Major Semple is a quiet kind of a man, 

 " and I have no doubt will behave like a gen- 

 ** tleman and give us no trouble. — He was fome 

 " days fmcc applied to by two of the villains, 

 ** to know if he would head them in an attempt 

 " to feize the fhip after they fhould get well out 

 " to fea, and had left the convoy; one of them 

 " at the fame time telling him, this was the 

 " eighth time he had embarked for Botany Bay 

 *' without reaching it ; and he was determined he 

 " would not this time; and that he was fenit on 

 " board by force from a I olice Office. This 

 " w?<5 immediately reported to the officers of 

 " the irJp by Semple; in confequence of which 

 " the foldiers vow vengeance againft him, 



N 4 " threatening 



