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before as after they bei^an,) have been so truly conspicuous, that 

 no one can refuse him that tribute of praise, and particular 

 notice, to which he is so justly entitled. To Major Kinnaird 

 therefore, to Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, Major Wright, Captain 

 Sampson, and Captain Henry Pritchard, and Lieutenant Hunter, 

 and to all those officers who exerted themselves among the muti- 

 neers, to persuade them to return to their dnt}' ; as well as to 

 Captain Benjamin Hodson, commanding the important post of 

 Ladder Hill, and to Lieutenant Phillips in the command of High 

 Knoll, the Governor feels particularly indebted, for their spirited 

 exertions, and for the able manner in which they discharged their 

 respective duties, from the commencement, until the happy termi- 

 nation of the late mutiny and rebellion. 



The assistance he derived from Town Major Hodson, and Cap- 

 tain Henry Pritchard, his personal staff, and from Captain T. H. 

 Brooke of the volunteers, entitles them to his warmest acknow- 

 ledgments, and he thus publicly conveys to them his warmest 

 thanks, with an assurance, that he will not fail more fully to point 

 out their merits, as well as that of other officers, to the notice of 

 the Honourable Court of Directors. 



Captain Sampson is requested to communicate to the non- 

 commissioned officers and privates of the infantry, who advanced 

 imder his command, to re-inforce Plantation-house ; and Major 

 Wright, to those of that corps, who acted on the late occasion, as 

 good and faithful soldiers, the Governor's highest approbation of 

 their conduct, and his sincere thanks. 



The Governor trusts that Lieutenant-Colonel Broughton, and 

 Major Doveton, will readily admit of his thus publicly expressing 

 the high sense he entertains of their cordial co-operation in over- 

 coming the dangers with which this island was threatened. 

 Colonel Broughton's seizure might be considered as a providential 



