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Millward, and Muspratt, with Churchill, were 
the men who had been deserters at Otaheite, and 
who had been forgiven by Bligh for that offence. 
Burkitt had been forward in the mutiny on board 
the Bounty. Ellison, who was a mere boy on the 
occasion of that act of violence, is thus described in 
the list forwarded from Batavia in October, 1789 : 
" Thomas Ellison, seaman, aged 17 years, five 
feet three inches high, fair complexion, dark hair, 
strong made; has got his name tattooed on his 
right arm,, and dated October 25, 1788." 
Morrison, before his connexion with the 
Bounty, had served in the navy as a midship- 
man ; and, after his pardon, had been appointed 
gunner of the Blenheim, in which he perished 
with Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge. 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. 
Burkitt, Ellison, and Millward, were executed, 
pursuant to their sentence, on the 29th of Octo- 
ber, 1792, on board the ship, Brunswick, in Ports- 
mouth Harbour. Captain Hamond reported, 
that the criminals had behaved with great 
penitence and decorum, had acknowledged the 
justice of their sentence, and exhorted their 
fellow-sailors to take warning by their untimely 
fate ; enjoining them, whatever might be their 
hardships, 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 
