222 NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, &c. 



that I would instantly order them to be fired upon, and the whole 

 destroyed if they did not submit. Upon receiving this reply, they 

 began to waver ; and finally they proposed to Majors Wright 

 and Hodson, that all they would now ask, was my promise of 

 pardon : but this 1 positively refused ; and, at the same time, in- 

 formed them, if they did not yield unconditionally, that Major 

 Kinnaird had received orders to put the whole of them to death. 

 It was now day-light, and seeing a superior force opposed to 

 them, they at length surrendered, saying they would trust to my 

 mercy. 



Of above two hundred men that sallied from James's Town, 

 upon this mad and desperate enterprise, only 75 remained toge- 

 ther in the morning ; all the others seem to have repented, and 

 returned to their barracks. 



The prisoners were put in close confinement at High Knoll, 

 and the following General Orders were issued. 



Head Quarters, St. Helena, 24th December, 181 1. 

 GENERAL ORDERS. 



" The Governor had hoped that the communication of his sen- 

 timents in the orders of yesterday, would have had the efltct of 

 convincing the soldiers in garrison of his dispositions to render 

 them the strictest justice on every occasion ; and of his readiness 

 to aflford redress for any real grievances they may sustain. He 

 could hardly have supposed that so numerous a body of the corps 

 of infantry, exceeding 200 men, could have been so misled by a 

 few discontented and factious persons, as to commit acts of mutiny 

 and rebellion in the manner they have done, by the seizure of the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, and by_avowing an intention of also seizing 

 the person of the Governor himself. From the conversations Lieute- 



