218 NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, &c. 



been instructed to fire a general alarm, upon the first appearance 

 o^ commotion, (which would soon bring the volunteers to ray 

 post) I was certain, therefore, of being re-inforced long before the 

 mutineers could reach me : and, under these circumstiinces, I had 

 no doubt as to the issue, being firmly determined not to yield a 

 single point, nor to suffer my person to fall into their hands. 



According to information I have since received, the mutiny 

 was not to have broken out until the morningof the 25th. It had 

 been settled by the mutineers, that when the troops paraded for 

 relieving the guards, that the whole of the regiment, joined by 

 the main guard on duty, after seizing their officers, should march 

 to Plantation-house and seize me: but, providentialiy, the mea- 

 sures I had adopted, made a change in their plan : and the ring- 

 leaders seeing I was preparing, considered that no time should 

 be lost, and therefore they commenced their operations within 

 five hours after I had left the castle. 



At half-past seven o'clock in the evening, I received a report, 

 that the mutinous troops intended to proceed to Long Wood, for 

 the pvirpose of getting possession of some field-pieces and ammu- 

 nition. Upon hearing this, although I did not know how far it 

 might be depended on, I sent an express to the Lieutenant- 

 Governor ; in which I suggested the advance of some field-pieces 

 to oppose the mutineers, if they should move in that direction. 

 The Lieutenant-Governor lost no time in taking up an advanta- 

 geous position with the field-pieces, manned by the guard at 

 Long Wood ; but, at the moment the advanced gun was loading, 

 the mutineers surrounded him and his party, and took them 

 prisoners. 



The particulars of their transactions at Long Wood, and after 

 they had seized Colonel Broughton, will be seen in his narrative.* 



* Appendix, B. 



