94 EXECUTION OF THREE MUTINEERS. 
passengers and crew, on her way from Madras to 
the Cape of Good Hope. Sir T. Troubridge was 
one of our most gallant and efficient admirals, 
the friend of Nelson and St. Vincent. 
Burkitt, Ellison, and Millward were executed, 
pursuant to their sentence, on the 26th of Octo- 
ber, 1792, on board the ship Brunswick, in Ports- 
mouth Harbour. Captain Hammond 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 
execution ; and that, fronf the accounts he had 
received, the example seemed to have made a 
salutary impression on the minds of all the 
ships' companies present. 
The following words were used by Mr. Hey- 
wood, when Captain Montagu had read to him 
his Majesty's free and unconditional pardon, on 
the 27th of October : 
" SIR, When the sentence of the law was 
passed upon me, I received it, I trust, as became 
a man; and if it had been carried into execution, 
I should have met my fate, I hope, in a manner 
becoming a Christian. Your admonition cannot 
fail to make a lasting impression upon my mind. 
I receive with gratitude my sovereign's mercy, 
