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cause, he should feel, in the posts he has occupied, the fullest 

 confidence and security. 



" He trusts, therefore, that those leaders may perceive the folly 

 and madness of their conduct ; and that no soldier may hence- 

 forward be misled by them, or seduced to return to such unlawful, 

 dangerous, and desperate acts, so that the peace and order of this 

 small community may soon be permanently established ; and the 

 dreadful consequences that infallibly await the crimes of mutiny 

 and rebellion maybe averted. 



The Governor will ask those deluded men what they could 

 possibly expect, even from complete success ? — Would the seizure 

 of his person be of the smallest advantage ? — Would his successor, 

 whoever he might be, shrink from his duties ? — Would he yield 

 to the demands of the rebels ? — Would he not carry into effect 

 the orders and regulations of the Company ? — Would the accom- 

 plishment of the avowed object of the late mutiny and rebellion 

 secure the return of spirits to the island ? — Undoubtedly not : 

 for spi-rits have been its bane for more than a century ; the primary 

 cause of all the disorders and mutinies that have taken place ; 

 and therefore the reform that the Governor has felt it his duty to 

 make, will undoubtedly be permanent. Yet if any persons con- 

 tinue dissatified, because they are now deprived of the means of 

 destroying their health by excesses, and of corrupting the minds 

 and morals of all around them, and of the younger men who 

 may from time to time, be sent to this island, they shall have the 

 Governor's free consent to change their situation, in the modes he 

 has pointed out, in the orders of the 24th instant." 



C. R. G. HODSON, 



Totcn Major. 



The General Court Martial which sat on the 25th, re-assembled 



