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fence or mutiny. Ufeful regulations \vere at the fame ^ 
time eftabliflied for the effe6lual governing of thefe 
people ; and fvich meafures were taken as could not fail 
to render abortive any plan they might be defperate 
enough to form for refilling authority, feizing any of 
the tranfports, or effeiling, at any favourable period, an ^ 
efcape. We have, however, the teflimony of thofe who 
commanded, that their behaviour, while the fliips re- 
mained in port, was regular, humble, and in all refpe6ts 
fuitable to their iituation : fuch as could excite neither 
fufpicion nor alarm, nor require the exertion of any 
kind of feverity. ... . .- ., 
When the fleet v/as at length prepared for iliilingv 
the complement of convidls and marines on board the 
tranfports was thus arranged. The Frieiulfotp carried, 
a Captain and forty- four marines, fubal terns and privatesj^^ 
with feventy-feven male and twenty female convicfts^ 
The Charlotte^ a Captain and forty-three men, vvqth. 
eighty-eight male and tvv^enty female convic1:s. In the 
Alexander-^ were tvvo Lieutenants and thirty-five ma- 
rines, with tvv'o hundred and thirteen convids, all male. , 
In XhQ Scarborough^ a Captain and thirty-three marines^/ 
ivith male convids onlv, tv/o hundred and eis'ht in num- 
ber. The Prince of Wales tranfport had two Lieute- 
nants and thirty marines, with only fifty convi6ls, all 
female. And the Lady Pemyn^ a Captain, two Lieute- 
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