78 EXECUTION OF THREE MUTINEERS. 
Morrison, before his connexion with the 
Bounty, had served in the navy as a mid- 
shipman; and, after his pardon, had been 
appointed gunner of the Blenheim, in which 
he perished with Admiral Sir Thomas Trou- 
bridge. In a violent gale on the 1st of 
February, 1807, that vessel was lost, with 
all the passengers and crew, in her way from 
Madras to the Cape of Good Hope. 
Ellison, Burkitt, and Millward, were ex- 
ecuted, pursuant to their sentence, on the 
29th of October, on board the ship, Bruns- 
wick, in Portsmouth Harbour. Captain 
Hamond reported, that the criminals had 
behaved with great penitence and decorum, 
had acknowledged the justice of their sen- 
tence, and exhorted their fellow-sailors to 
take warning by their untimely fate ; en- 
joining them, whatever might be their hard- 
ships, never to forget their obedience to their 
officers, but to remember the duty which 
they owed to their king and country. The 
Captain said, that a party from each ship in 
the harbour, and at Spithead, had attended 
the execution; and that, from the accounts 
he had received, the example seemed to have 
