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with ammunition, &:c. &;c. when they proceeded ; and as I got to 

 Long Wood gate, I asked them to wait until my horse came, as 

 also two lanthorns with lights ; — to which they did not object : 

 and during our stay at the gate, I again addressed them, and 

 pointed out the enormity of the crime they had committed — 

 Mutiny and rebellion, I said, were punishable with death, and 

 nothing could possibly save them ; and if they would return to 

 their barracks, and give up their advisers and leaders, I would 

 recommend them to the Governor's clemency. ' No ! No ! they 

 said, we must have spirits.' It was now about one o'clock, when 

 the party consisting of about 120 men, and the three-pounder 

 gun proceeded. I was placed in the centre, under the charge of 

 Anderson, a private of the light company. Sisell, a private gre- 

 nadier, appeared the most active, and the leader. Corporal 

 Smith was violent, and threatened to take Mr. Hall's life, for 

 spiking the guns, and not giving up the keys of the magazin,e. 

 After passing Hutt's gate, and half way to the Alarm-house, I 

 found an opportunity of telling one of the servants who carried 

 a lanthorn, to make the best of his way to the Governor, and 

 inform him of my situation, and the strength of the mutineers ; 

 — to give the lanthorn to one of my party, a prisoner with myself, 

 and to go back as if returning to Long Wood. By this stratagem, 

 he got clear off from the mutineers, and carried the first notice to 

 the Governor. Two other men I afterwards sent, were made 

 prisoners. The night was dark, and at times light rain, which 

 caused much delay in getting on the gun. At one place it was 

 overturned — this caused a halt of nearly half an hour;— and 

 during that time, much confusion and quarelling took place 

 amongst the mutineers, which gave an opportunity to Matross 

 Smith (who had been forced) to escape, and to carry off the pouch, 

 containing 15 rounds of grape for the gun, which was all the 



