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sent case, the chief evideoce for the pemeention hatches to ore what we were
would be given by commis sets, were oil bawd a* who was one of .the soil
the time, but who were lII,Wf reOrlej.ell Cfralfregent ii 1414.1116.11,14 to irons for
a itite.eee 'by having received the partfoli of the per,. At a wester, :1 ,
Crow,,. The skip Chapman NM...vied rum the of liner were found broketi----
Cove of Cork curly is the )eon 1817, with about • pieces Of stick inside the
200 convicts on hoard alestiiied for Botany Bay. them. break the huh.
Her crew consisted of .1111- waists anal 40 soldiers; )landed to me, before -
she railed mime time its the mouth of hlarell. sud iss 1 rwors list I Dever saw a used
shout a mouth anirsequesti. ale Cummender sod I had broken my !ref's* bef
Olficets ware said to here rawseetiosesoect OW cwt- moil this was discovered I
duct or the coo.icto, .o.d VI vat their 115911e10411,111 1 None Of us ever 'attempted
wish etztroordinory fitteistioai. Oniliestifili April, :toot i the 17th April we were i
indeed previously. on the 1 7ils, the splitters boat firs i 12(1 men out of irons, nor
id mien the amends. find us,the,sot sonic lives 11 e koowied, a single mast ma out of woos. _
were lust, ono of which *as tlw suiljem of this pro. ; three were many out of irons. mote days before.
secutium N. impieineuts or arcs verefonied *pun t and that soma lever.. and a piece of du in the shape,.
any of the coneicts. to juetifirtbearpinlei %bet they of • tisife, were f0u.141 in my birth.
were engaged in any attempt t, 6 Ofethic pus. Were you ewer Rogged?-.4res, I was; bet the
toi.Ohitia.,..lthasosidieseir , vivre only. rear* why I wee so twat woo, beams. I spike
lithe mod luminary power; lint! the 1 in the LIMO 111111;112r to Doctor Driver Ascot:l4l"s
; wine a day or two imfore. The DUVI 01 it-ked mt.,
sentinels had orders immediately to hte if they
heard any noire among the convicts below, and dot ; are you the man •ho spoke Lorra to nee? I a sid I
not, after twice challenging, receice a salisfatiory 1 WM, rind he then replied. " You are a god scho-
account for it. The Crown felt it tiecessatc, that lar,:stit 1 believe s il-1 rascal, and you sholl he
as lives were lost in dd . c.oir. till as charges or the t tied by twice for it. The witness the:, itiocertird lb
.post s„joi„„ture 1„,‘I i,,,,,,„ ,„„d, by the „„vieb, I say toot thong', Clements charged him wills hoe-
against those who had them in cart, that the latter j iog concealed blobs. yet he had no Noah thing.—
should have an opportunity of being heard ra snit- j %Vital they called knives mete slips 1:f tin sonde
port of these charges, and that the whole lowlier ! filen the handles of the pore ingent nut of which the
should be fully silted by a British Jury. Ile would men used to drink, they shaped the tin this way
now proceed to call the witnesses for the pruaeco. 1 tor the purpose of cutting their Inca!, as no knives
titian. ; were 'allowed stasorig the cousiets. '. I know," lie
Terence Keernan was the first witness put into i added; " their was a Bible found below, hut it
the box anti sworn. • I did tint belong to me. 1)f. Re,ter and other officers
Mr. A Eht;tir —" Witness, were pm one of the j sod they were jammed by (:shin., who was Ole of
convicts on board the shift thesproun*" • the convicts, that we anemia to take the ship.--
rence Keerisssi—" I was." i We tool a cooviet stained Francis Murphy stnstnTe
The COMMON SERJEANT Hod Mr. ALLEY the.. I 1,,,,,,A. bin I ,ketorr heard hint say that they in-
submitted to the Coalit, that. before ,his WOO could I true-•d to 'nuttier rite MEC. TA and take the ship.
be made a rompeirut triturate, his pardon must be ! We had occasion:lily wine given us, IA wet enough.
put iii and read in Court. 1 I,Vben this fifmg look phieti the Captain was cer-
The ATTOIINEY-GENERAL replied, that its a I 'Moly not sorest'''. I nefte saw nor heard (except
point of form was here interposed, he intpd also n. I trot!! the soldiers and sailers) that an ott?inpt had
his turn call for an adherence to forms. Before, l bees' 'nude on the night of the 17th, by the con-
therefore, this maser testimony was rejected, it way i victs, to force the bulk-head with a view of getting
for the opposde Counsel to produce the record of : into the marmot! sod eeiztug *ruts. I never heard
his conviction. 1 or knew that live of my fellow calivicts had ar -
Mr. Justice PAIII-..." That is trite; hut would ' wally confessed the iittetiwt td seise
-the ship. *1
it not be as well, M
r. Attorory-tieneral, us nu do trot know, nor do I believe, that oily oaths were
doubt you hold the pardon, to produce it ut once, administered among the convicts.' 1 never braid it
and put an rod to the question i'" I except fruits the rmliliers."
The ATTOINET-GF.NEItILL immediately put in 1 The witness gave the following answers t,) goes-
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the pardon, which was read. It appeared from this I lions from the Judge:—
record, that Terence Keernan had been convicted, " I have studied Latin, anti spoke to the Doctor
at the Assizes at Drogheda, for a gratat larceny, on in that language. I was etlocatect by my father iii
the fad July. 1816. Ireland, and designed for the Church of Rome.
The Om We now declared Keernan to be a coo- I was to have heel. ii Pries!, but I mver took Holy
pelts! witnres. but botom,wo „rumination was p r 4,.. Orders. When the troll:nun:tie tabor teelr.place
eroded upon all the other la itnemies as to fa.ds acre which led to my transportation, it was going In
ordered wit *swot, ill
• , Dahlias to finish any mealasea.- I have se swami.
whatever that Clements the Frisian.? shut MoArdre.
• on the contrary', f the townie: I. vfIOCII the
I wound was aside, I believe be was killed by a bot:1
' Irum the soldiers below. I cool"; Hot see Clement?,
hut I heard hie voice in the ciiiirmmtiosb willi Mi.
Baxter. The ill usage *loch we received from the
officers and men was sithoripieot to the 1701 April,
alien e: were represented as ben* tnutitions—our
treatinesit previously was ":;:rialuly good; but 'lsere
was not, so fur us soy knowledge writs, any mutinous
tendency among the llfil4Oir FS ; we weir kt pt rpm t
from each other, so as that I should not know what
the other was doing. 1 slept so disai, to the hatch-
way that I could put my timid to it as I atvpiwri
use die upper tier. These were two bleeping tiers
iii the part of the s'ip called the Risen, en I I was
at the tip."
Thomas Kelly, examined by Mr. CASELEE.
Was put on hoard the Chapman iii the Cove of
Cork, in February or March. 1 8 17. Remtnibeied
the firing oil the 17th April ; at the time I slept in
the upper birth above the last witness. After this
j was taken out wounded and put in irmis on the
poop. I remember thet the firing which twain took
place ou the 28th, was about eight o'clock. Just
before this Arnie; I heard Clements call out to kiiew
who was speaknig Irish below; and they answered
that noliody was saying ally dritig. A person shore.
vat I believe to lie Clements:, said, " If you
don't keep wort l'il let go ;" and he shortly after
slid, and was followed by firing iso ispomos Eros, all
quarters of the ship. I thialt this general firing
lasted about two hours, though 'he comic,* cool-
nuttily cried out for mercy. My brother, M'Ardle.
and others were killed on that in gilt.
Ciosx-examined by Mz. A I.l.eri.
Q. How often have you beer' tried ?—lt's a very
unfair question to ask me. Bring told that he
must asisirsr, lie said he had been 'lied twice. He
recollected being brought op on drtk on the 17(11
April.—his irons erre nut then broke. but one was
off, by directioiss of Mr. ll.lottrr. to enable lent to
clean the aleck. Whets the iruits.uf the rest were
examined, stone of the users were discosered to have
broken them, but lie could not my *bat tisiniber.
All he knew was, thafthey were the *hole of one
evening floggiog men, lot having their jtons broker.
He knew nothing about an attempt to bribe a
sailor with id. to get a 1.,,,ie of pistols to slitiot the
Doctor, wises' he. caste down to do his duty its the
botrital. Neither did Ife ever hear it confessloss
'nide bf a nifitiny by one of the convicts. '' I was,"
said he, •• with others" flagged, because they said
we were all charged with mutiny. I recollect
nothing about a particular. Bible being found, nor
Was there ever, to my knowledge, any body swore.'
Jo seize the ship. When I saw the shot Bred
tint on the night of the 23th, I could oat see 00
man who fired it; I was nearer to the spot tbati
Kerman. In answer lb questions frnAb the Judse,,
lie said, that lie heard no such %uOSertition as
Boater's asking Cletnents to II re in, end the latter
wishing to {rut It oft Until the Officiri able gbuble
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bed. . ...L.
Michret Wood, ezastiwed by Atpww.txo.ps.
Sant be was put on board tip, Chapman, c
convict, in the Cove of Cetk. Ile recullected
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Terence Keenan, 'moulted by the ATToito ET-
GENERAL.
I war shipped on board the ship Chapman, for
Botany Bay, in March. 1817, atid wrist on noted
in live Cove of Cork, to which place I was brought
round in a brig with upwards of twenty nthers.--
There were altogether rosettibled in the thtspmun
about 20Q convicts. The prisoner. Drake. was
Captaiu of the ship—and the other prisoner. Cle-
ments', was a soldier under his command. When
we got as far as St. Jago on our votyrge, seine of
the convicts were killed; 1 thitsk ili.s urcurreel on
the night of the 17th of April, but 1 cautiot say po-
sitively. as no man dare keep a log under the pe.
nutty of death. Just below this, l acknowledge
several of the iron* were brokers by the convicts. to
enable them to clean their trowser.—tlit uciddle
liimk of mine among the number. On the 17th of
April we were alarmed by 14 shot being tired from
the deck—anti afterwards, shout the eltli or
April. at bed time, as we were going to rest in our
births in the prison below, another tiring took place.
I was than in my birth at the head of tile slop, viol
a lumen& before the shuts were tired I heard one bf
the officers of the ship. the mate Baxter, who is
since dead, as y to Clements, *6 Clements, ore you
there ?" the Prisoner Clements replied, " 1 inn."
Baxter said, " Raise a false alarm this tsight. such
we'll kill them every h--y Clements
said. " I will, but it is too soon het; wait till the
gentlemen go to bed, and we'll have thin hone to
play upon them. Baxter raid, " 'Tie a good time
now—the gentlemen are in the cabin ; and when
you begin don't be commanded by Cuptaiu, Doc-
tor, or Officer, and I'll be accountable." I then
heard what I supposed to be the sound of using a
ramrod, and I raw Clements come forward to the
little starboard hatchway. nearly under which I lay,
he used some expression which I did not exactly
hear about Irish, cod said, " I'll let go." He
then put down his musket into the hatchway and
fired. The tiring was instantly repeated from clif:
&rent quarters down the hatchways, and through
the holes and scuttles into the prison where we lay.
I think the tiring lasted an hour amid a hall; but
can't speak as to the length oflime from the pretli-
wand in which we were. J remained in my birth
time whole time. Sucre time after the firing crusetle
Bolter, some "ohliera oud osuturs depeesided into
our prism, with a light, and thou I observed that a
massusate of mitre. Jahn WA rat., was dead. He
was struck with a ball its the head. which entered
his .birth from the direction of the soldiers' apart-
Mesita. What I hare stated is all I then knew of
Closuento.
Cron-examined by the COIXON SItILIRANT.
The soldiers' apartnients were under the &wk.
and from there lie thought the shut came ; but
Clement' was on the deck.
He then, when further questioned, sohd lie did
not think it fair to tell how many gatilii he kid been
in; but when told he must answer, is replied. " I
never sows ho ammy gaol as a prisoner„ until I was put
into that of Drogheda, on tlieLimarge for which .1
was transported. 1 wow no picking of locks io the
moon-stop while we were in the Care of Cork;
there were lights occasio:,:illy Vat down

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6e, bringing sews into the
. wink niure than its pair
eit—we used to put in two
ite rings. mid by t wise%
gisver sow the knife saw
p • it I. Hatched like a
w;ed staong the Prisoners.
before we got to St. Jae,
beture the 17th April.—
ed to get 'upon deck. Ou
tanstertd; there were not
or wig there on that der, to
lase out of ;rims. 1 admit