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headed by Lieut.-Colonel Gr. Johnston. In May 
1811 Colonel Johnston was tried by court-mar- 
tial at Chelsea Hospital, found guilty of an act 
of mutiny, and sentenced to be cashiered. This 
trial lasted for thirteen days, and excited great 
public interest. Colonel Johnston was of a 
highly respectable family in Annandale, in Scot- 
land. He returned to New South Wales shortly 
after his trial, and spent the remainder of his days 
in the colony. The present Lord Chief Baron 
of the Exchequer, at that time Mr. Frederick 
Pollock, was one of Bligh's counsel at the trial. 
Captain Bligh afterwards became a Vice- 
Admiral of the Blue. In advancing years he 
found much happiness in the midst of his family, 
to whom he was greatly endeared. His eventful 
life was now drawing to its close. A serious 
internal complaint obliged him to come to Lon- 
don from his residence at Farningham, Kent, 
for advice ; and he died shortly afterwards in 
Bond Street, on the 7th of December, 1817, in 
the sixty-fourth year of his age. He left no 
son, but several daughters. His surviving 
daughters remember him with feelings of the 
most tender affection. 
The Admiral was about five feet six inches in 
height ; his complexion was naturally pale, or, 
as it has been described, " of an ivory or marble 
whiteness." His hair was black. His face, 
though it had been exposed to all climates, and 
to the roughest weather, was far from looking 
weather-beaten, or coarse. " This," it is added, 
"was probably owing to his temperance, and 
fine constitution." 
