ass NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, &c. 



was Jewitt, formerly a corporal of artillery, but he did not think 

 it worth his while to trouble himself with him." I asked him 

 how far he was away ? he said, "just outside ;" and immediately 

 after he said, " he was on the Alarm-house road." I asked him 

 if he was halfway to the Alarm-house .> he then said, "just 

 under it; that if I would go a little way on the road, I should 

 hear him ; for he was making a great noise." I told him, I did 

 not think there was any person on the road : it was certainl^'^ a 

 falsehood. As he was intoxicated, I said I would go with him to 

 his post at Deadwood shed ; which I did. On the road, at one 

 time he told me the disturbance would happen on Christmas 

 night ; and at another, he told me it would happen the night 

 after Christmas. I saw him safe to his room ; the guard peace- 

 able and quiet, and the sentinel on his post ; I then returned to 

 my quarters. Immediately I got home, the general alarm tired, 

 and I returned to the Lieutenant-Governor for orders, agreeably 

 to the directions he had given me about half an hour before the 

 prisoner came to my quarters. I met the Lieutenant-Governor, 

 with the prisoner, coming to the shed, and the Colonel desired 

 me to go and take charge. I paraded the men ; the Colonel 

 asked them, if they had any complaint to make to him? they 

 said none ; they would stand by him if any disturbance took 

 place. The prisoner assured the Colonel there was no danger, 

 and suggested that the men should go into their barracks, and 

 take off their side-arms, saying there was no occasion for them : 

 and further observed to the Lieutenant-Governor, that he might 

 go to bed, and rest as quiet and safe as ever he had done in his 

 life. I ordered, however, that the men should not go into the 

 barracks, nor take off their side-arms ; but to come and get out 

 the guns, agreeably to the Lieutenant-Governor's directions. The 

 men obeyed me, and Serjeant Lassells said, " there was no ocoa- 



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