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on their flank and to harass them in whatever direction they may 



proceed. 



I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 



C. R. G. HODSON, 



Plantation-house, 2bth December, 1811. Town Major. 



25th December, 1811. 



GENERAL ORDERS. 



A considerable proportion of the St. Helena regiment having 

 been guilty of mutiny and rebellion on the night of the 23d 

 instant, by outrageously seizing the Lieutenant Governor, and 

 avowing their desperate intention of attempting to seize the 

 Governor: it is therefore the Governor's positive orders that the 

 men keep in their barracks, and that the main guard shall not 

 get nnder arms without the sanction of the commanding officer of 

 Ladder Hill, who has been ordered to depress guns loaded with 

 grape, and to fire upon the main guard if it shall presume to get 

 under arms without his previous permission. 



" Under the present state of affairs, the Governor deems it 



expedient to notify to the troops, that if any non-commissioned 



officer or soldier shall be guilty of disobedience to bis officers, or 



shall evince by words or actions the smallest symptom of mutinous 



spirit, he will instantly be seized, tried by a Drum-head Court 



Martial, and hanged. 



By Order of the Governor, 



C. R. G. HODSON, 



Totcn Major. 



Orders were also issued on the 25th, for assembling imme- 

 diately a General Court Martial. Nine of the ring-leaders were 

 brought to trial, all of whom received sentence of death. But six 



