S7* THE LIFE OF, 



Extra^ from the Star, of Enjign Prater's 

 Nm rathe of the Mutiny, on board the Lady 

 Shore. 



" Oil the I ft day of Augufl", 1797, about 

 *' four o'clock A. M. the French emigrants, 

 " and a number of deferters (fent on board the 

 " Lady Shore) bound to New Holland, af^ 

 " fifted by the feamen,* revolted, and took pof- 

 " fefTion of the fi"iip, guns, fmall arms, and the 

 " arm-cheft. Mr. Lambert, Chief Mate, whofe 

 " watch it was upon deck, having obferved 

 " them for fome time loading their mufkets aj: 

 " the main hatchway, without alarming the 

 *• Captain or Officers Commanding the troops, 

 imprudently went into the cabin, loaded his 

 piliols, and difcharging one of them, Ihot a 

 Frenchman, named de la Hay; the muti- 

 neers immediately fhot Mr. Lambert dead 

 on the fpot. As Captain Wilcox, hearing 

 a noife, was coming out of his cabin, he was 

 ftabbed in the right fide of his neck, and in 

 *' his left breaft, which occafionesd him to fall 

 *' down the companion ladder into the great ca- 

 ** bin, which was our apartment. By this time the 



* The Teamen evidently lent no afiiftance in the time of the 

 mutiny, they afterwards were compelled to affifl in working 

 the fliip. (P. 206,) 



" revolters 



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