240 NARRA.TIVE OF THE MUTINY, &c. 



Honourable Court, for their distinguished loyalty and zeal in 

 the cause of this government. 



I have the honour to be, with great respect, 

 Honorable Sirs, 

 your most faithful and obedient humble Servant, 



ALEX. BEATSON. 



A%. Helena, January Ath, 1812. 



Extract from Colonel Beatson's second Letter to the Honourable the Court 

 of Directors, upon the Subject if the Mutiny. 



" St. Helena, ]4th January, 1812. 



" Par. 1. vJn the first instant, I had the honour of forwarding 

 by H. M. Sloop Acteon, a Narrative of Proceedings from the com- 

 mencement of the late mutiny until the surrender of the mutineers 

 on the morning of the 24th ult. I was prevented at that lime 

 from saying more, as the Acteon was under orders not to anchor 

 at St. Helena, and had lain to for only a few hours ; but after I 

 had sent off my letters. Captain Cator, hearing of the late occur- 

 rences, obligingly came to Plantation-house, and I had thus an 

 opportunity of adding to my dispatch a copy of the General 

 Orders of the 1st of January, by which your Honourable Court 

 would have the gratification of observing that I have been com- 

 pletely successful in restoring military subordination and thft, 

 tranquillity of the island. 



" Par. 2. I have now the honour to forward a detailed account 

 of every circumstance connected with the late mutiny. This 

 document, dated the 4th instant, I deemed proper to have printed ; 

 for the purpose of counteracting misrepresentations from discon- 

 tented persons who would gladly obstruct, by every means in 



