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m ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [June, 



very a&ive part, to crufh the diforder at once. He accordingly went 

 on board in perfon, with fome foldiers, and returned with Williams 

 and two others who were pointed put to him ; when they were taken 

 to the public parade, and there punifhed, Williams with one hundred 

 and fifty, and his companions with one hundred lames each. In the 

 moment of punimment Williams's courage forfook him and the fpirit 

 which he had difplayed on board was all evaporated. He would have 

 faid or done any thing to have averted the lafh; yet he well knew 

 what a flogging was, having been flogged from fhip to fhip at Spit- 

 head for a fimilar offence. 



The appearance of a mutiny is at all times and in every fituation to 

 be dreaded ; but in that country nothing could be more alarming. 

 The Lieutenant-Governor faw the affair in that light ; and, with a 

 celerity and firmnefs adapted to the exigency of the cafe, reftored 

 tranquillity and fafety to all thofe who were concerned in the fate of 

 the Kitty. On the following day feveral depofitions were taken by 

 the Judge-Advocate, for the purpofe of being tranfmitted to the 

 Navy-Board; and, the three feamen being replaced by convi&s, the 

 Kitty proceeded on her voyage. 



On the fourth of June his Majefty's birth-day was, as ufual, fet 

 apart as a day of reft: from labour, and dedicated to feftivity. On 

 this occafion his Excellency ordered twelve of the largeft hogs which 

 had been received by the Daedalus, to be killed and divided among 

 the military, fuperintendants, and fick at the hofpital. 



Notwithstanding the purchafes of provifions which had fortunately 

 been made from the Philadelphia brigantine before Governor Phillip's 

 •departure, and fince that time from the Hope and from the Shah 

 Hormuzear, the Lieutenant-Governor found it neceffary on the 12th 

 of the month to give notice, " That unlefs fupplies arrived before the 

 2 2d, he fhould be under the difagreeable neceffity of ordering the ra- 

 tion to be reduced on that day." The ftate of the ftore but too well 

 authorized this determination, it containing at the prefent ration not 

 more than ten weeks' fupply of any fingle article ; and it muft be re- 

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