250 NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, &c. 



I was much indebted to Mr. Hall, the conductor, for his cool, 

 steady, and soldier-like conduct on the night of the 23d, and par- 

 ticularly in spiking the two guns after they were in possession of 



the mutineers. 



E. S. BROUGHTON. 



St. Helena, 25th December, 181 1. 



C . Lieutenant- Colonel Smith's Report of Occurrences, which took place in 

 Garrison, on the Evening of the 23rf Instant. 



As soon as I was informed there was a disturbance in barracks, 

 which was about a quarter before 9 o'clock, and Captain Pritchard 

 came and spoke to me, concerning the ammunition chest in the 

 guard room, I directed him to go down and have the ammuni- 

 tion destroyed by throwing water upon it. I then sent for all 

 the keys of the magazines, chests, and laboratory, which were 

 brought by Serjeant Clenchman, and secured in my house. I 

 then went down to the guard, and told the officer I wished to 

 speak to the men a few minutes. T went into their guard room 

 and told them, that I was one of the committee which sat that 

 day, and that the Governor would arrange every thing to-morrow 

 for them, and I doubted not to their satisfaction. They made 

 answer, " It is too late now, and that they would not stay," and 

 immediately rushed out of the guard. I used all my endeavours 

 to persuade them to fall in : but the mutineers, at that instant, 

 came on the parade, and surrounded me. I tried to persuade 

 them to go back again ; they said, " No ! they came for ammuni- 

 tion, and ammunition they would have." Some of them imme- 

 diately went in the officers' guard room and broke open the chest; 

 but finding all the ammunition in it spoiled, they ran down to 

 the laboratory and demanded the keys. One of them called out, 



