232 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



on the 26tli, for the trial of three other ringleaders, who were all 

 capitally convicted. Hewit alone was ordered for execution ; and 

 the sentences of the other two were remitted. This execution 

 was conducted with great solemnity. The whole of the garrison 

 were drawn up on the lower parade ; the prisoners led along the 

 front ; the dead march was played ; and immediately after the 

 prisoner Hewit was turned off, the Town Major read to the troops 

 these orders. 



GENERAL ORDERS, by the GOVERNOR and COUNCIL. 



27th December, 1811. 

 Parole, — Peace. 



" The Governor and Council most earnestly hope, that the 

 necessary and awful examples which they have been compelled 

 to make, from the madness and folly of a few malicious persons, 

 who had artfully misled, or forced, a great number of the St. 

 Helena regiment to join in acts of open mutiny and rebellion, 

 will be sufficient to produce the happy effect of restoring military 

 subordination, and the peace and tranquillity of the island. 



" The Governor and Council will soon take into consideration, 

 the expediency of granting an amnesty to the remainder of the 

 prisoners ; and will also adopt such measures as may tend to re- 

 dress the grievances of which the mutineers complained to the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, whilst he was their prisoner ; and which 

 complaint, until the morning of the 24th instant, had never before 

 reached the ears of either the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, 

 otherwise they would undoubtedly have long since been attended 

 to : but at the same time it must be distinctly understood, that 

 the existence of grievances, even of the greatest magnitude, could 

 never justify such daring, unlawful, and desperate proceedings 



