WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
cent behaviour entitled them to fome favour from tholir 
who were totally abandoned and obdurate. 
13th. Cornelius Connell, a private in the marines, was, 
according to the fentence of a court martial, punifhed with 
a hundred lafhes, for having an improper intercourfe with 
fome of the female convids, contrary to orders. Thomas 
Jones was alfo fentenced to receive three hundred la£hes, for 
attempting to make a centinel betray his truft, in fuffering 
him to go among the women ; but in confideration of the 
good chara£ler he bore previous to this circumflance, the 
court recommended him to the clemency of the commanding 
officer; and, in confequence thereof, he was forgiven^ 
John Jones and James Reiley, privates, accufed of fimilar 
offences to that of Connell's, were acquitted for want of 
evidence, there being no witneffes to fupport the charge 
except convids, whofe teftimony could not be admitted. 
icth. This being a day of great parade and gaiety with, 
the Portugueze, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, arrayed 
in their beft and richeft attire,; as their cuftom is on regale 
days, began to fhow themfelves, during the forenoon, be- 
tween the city and the church of St. Gloria, which is about 
a mile difiant, and fituated on a rifing ground near the fea. 
Perfons 
