426 



A. D. 1797. 



other articles, vrhich were confidered as inadmiflible. Being joined by 

 feveral fhips, which had deferted from the fleet in the North lea, they 

 alfo divefted the officers of their command, and chofe delegates, who 

 appointed Richard Parker to be their prefident, or, in fact, admiral of 

 the fleet. As a further means of compelling a compUance with their 

 demands, they put almofl: an entire fl;op to the navigation of the 

 Thames. Only coal vefl'els, lome fmall craft, and veflels belonging to 

 neutral nations, were permitted to pafs up or down ; and all other vef- 

 fels were ordered to anchor between the flilps of war, and under their 

 guns. Notwithftanding this appearance of hoftility and defiance, and 

 the perilous fituation they had put themfelves in, they reprobated a 

 propofal for carrying off the fliips, and delivering them to the French ; 

 and they obferved the kiiig's birth-day with the cuflomary falute and 

 demonflrations of loyalty. Eleven fliips of the line and thirteen 

 frigates, attended by a vafl; number of trading veflels, all under the 

 command of men, who ufed themfelves to be fubjed to the ftridleft 

 command, prefented a fpedacle new and Angular, and furnifliing mat- 

 ter for the mofl: ferious confide ration, and awful apprehenfion. But 

 this mofl formidable confpiracy did not remain long united. On the 

 9'* of June fome of the fliips broke off from the affociation. Next day 

 the inward-bound merchant veflels, except thofe loaded with ftores and 

 provifions, were allowed to proceed up the river. And on the 13"" the 

 mutiny was at an end. 



The following accounts, illuflrative of the affairs of the Eaft-India 

 company, are extraded from the papers annually laid before parlia- 

 ment. 



jiti account of the amount of all goods fold at the Eafl-India company'' s 

 f ales from the 1" of March 1796 to the V^ of March 1797. 



Teas 



Bengal piece goods . . . 

 Coast and Sural ditto . . 



Raw silk 



Organzine silk 



China ware 



Nankeens 



Pepper 



Saltpetre 



DragSj sugar, indigo, &c. 



CotTce 



Riee 



