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love of diforder had feduced and drawn in the 
reft to the commiffion of fuch enormities, he 
promifed pardon to every man thus mifled, 
xvho fliould again return to obedience; and 
concluded his fpeech with a fharp reprimand of 
the ring-leader, who, though in confinement, 
wa?, no doubt, hatching in his mind nevar 
troubles. This man, perfedly naked and 
flretchcd at his length, was bound within 
a chicken- coop, which was fallened and barri- 
caded with clamps of iron. He was one of 
thofe beings to whom nature has given, with 
a robuft conRitution, that fortitude of mind, 
that contempt of danger and death, fo favour- 
able to, and fo deftrudive in, fadions. He 
ftill threatened. They had feized him at a 
moment when he was off his guard ; which was 
a necelTary precaution, as he was able of him- 
felf to infpire terror into the whole crew. Th^ 
bufinefs of bringing to trial and punifhing this 
man devolved upon the chief magiftrate of the 
Cape ; and accordingly he was ordered to be 
conveyed thither. From this moment tranquil- 
lity was reftored ; and we were convinced, 
frem what we faw in this inftance, that, ii^ 
every cafe of tumult, nothing more is neceffary 
to 
