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mind what they did, as we have begun it we Mall
go through it; and in cafe the officers should draw
their aims againl us, we will (hew no mercy;
they could not kill more than fifty or fisty people,
at molt, and they could find fifty or fiat y men to
take poireffion of the magazines of powder. John
Allen laid that night to Stephenfon, By G—d
there will be blood flied before the week is at an';
end.' Stephenfon replied, it would be a bad job :
fomebody might pay for it.' They were chinking
at the time. Allen Paid, 'God give me heart and
flrength, there is no fear ; we will go throwll
with It, fn that there arc no informers.' Philip I
Ilandcock, who was in his hammock, cried titanic
at us fqr making tire of fuch expretlions while the •
people were awake.

The hoatfwain's mate having been drunk, he
was cobbed, be received a dozen and a half from
Chetterm:in, with a pea-fqtreezer. About five in
the evening, I went up upon deck, and as I was
going towards the forecaftle, I heard a great noife
upon deck between the two foremoft guns, and I
came back and faw Patrick Cannan going to Ise
cobbed for wrangling and making a difturbance
among ,the Ship's company ; he called his ?mgr.
mate, George Dixon, a thief; Collins, the butcher,
anted him, if he could prove George Dixon a
thief r he laid, no;' .well, fays he, ' if you breed
a difturbance, you Shall be cobbed.' George
Dixon drew his knife to Patrick Cannan, who gave
him a flap in the face : Lieutenant Bogden came
down and allied, what noife it was? They told him
it was only a man going to be cobbed. Lieute-
nant Bogden told them they should punifh nobody
with their own hands; but fend them aft to be pu-
nned. Collins faid, 'it was only a cobbing match.'
Immediately Lieutenant Bogden was Shoved in the
crowd ; I faw a man Strike him, I cannot tell who
it was. An alarm came direetly afterwards, and
George Dixon came down the fore ladder from
the main-deck, and fung out bear a hand up you
b—rs, here is a man in irons t' the people went
up and made a rufh to go aft to take poffi:lfion of
the arras and difarm the fentries, and go upon the I
forecadle, and kill all the officers ; they hid they
would foon clear thole gentlemen quality off the
forecaftle, and fend them away, and began cheer-
ing all the way as they went. They flopt and did.'
not go aft; when they found the marines were
under arms, they went to the forecaftle and gain-
ed the others; Fitzgerald wanted them to gn aft,
and take the arms. The Cliptain immediately
after that came on the lot ecattle, and ailced-what
they all wanted, to make ft much noife at that
time of night ? they laid, they wanted the pr ;loner
to be delivered up. One Gailifpie, James Riley,
and many others, whom I could not obfcrve, laid,
• he Should not be punifhed.' The Captain laid,
he Should, he had been drunk on duty and info.
lent to his fuperior officers.' George bison was
one whole voice I could pick out among all of
them. Captain Eylce was w•t!hing fore an,' aft,
having hardly room, had been Shoved among them
in the crowd ; I could rot fee an.; bOdy in the ft out
that I could take no:ice of ; but Collins, Daly, Fitz-
gerald, Conk, and natny snore Shoved the Captain,
when they picked out the principal ringleaders.•
On the Bth, Tuelday, I forgot inflate that John
Allen afked if he thought they Should
find plenty of marines to join them; it was their
own good as well as theirs ?' M'Evoy faid, he
could ant'w er for twenty. twenty-four,that would
join them ;' be laid, ' C..ptain Vallock, of the ma-
rines, might order the mei:n.s to fire , there might
be a few girlpins who would are, but the refl would
pre over their heads, and th:n throw their arms
down, and come and join them ; pet haps with their
arms, if it was poffible to get them, if not the
bayonetwould do.' M'Evoy was frequently among
a few of the ringleaders talking what way they
should aft. John Fitzgerald, I faw vczy often
along with him, but I could not hear what he laid.
—On Thurfday in the forenoon the Admiral called
hands on the quarter deck concerning the letter
that was fent to him relpeCting the Ship's company,
that they were willing to fight for their King and
country, but not to go out of the land ; that the
molt part of them had been five, fcven, or eight
years in the fervice, and now the star was over
they wifhed to go home. Admiral Campbell de-
fired to know ifthe marines were in the fame mind
with the failors, and to fend two of them to fpeak
if they were, and the officers Should not take no-
tice of thole men, and he defired Captain Val-
lock to (peak. John Allen, as loon as the peo-
ple came down from the quarter deck under.
Ecath the forecaßle, defired M'Evoy to go aft
and tell the Serjeants of Marines to appoint two i
men to tell the Captain and the Admiral, if the
marines were in the fame min I. A man of the I
name of M'Eafh went, but I do not know what
he laid. Mayfield was the fitil man picked out,
on 'rhurfday, between five and fix ; Fitzgerald
was the next. Cooke laid, d—n your eyes, yon
b—s, why don't you fpeak your minds; don't be
afraid ;' he then fell back to the ranks for fear
of being picked out. Admiral Campbell came to
the marines 'to try to make them quiet. A few
fung out, Rand your ground, you Jones
raid this, and faid, if every man was of my mind,
no prifoner thould go out of the Ship, except they
punifhed all.' On that day all the prifoners were
picked out, except Daly and Hillier. I heard
Dixon and Comayne lay, and many more with
'them, near One hundred' and fifty, they would
take knives and flab the marines when they
were asleep in their hammocks. If every man
was of their mind, them poor fellows Should not go
cut Of the flrip ; it was not acting like shipmates,
bat d—d b—y rafcals to let there poor men go.' I
was prefent ; Miles, the Captain of the Waße
SliackledaY, Harris, Whittaker and Williams, all
belonging to the fame met's. George Conrayne
was dofe by the forebits. George Dixon faid to
me he did not tbink I was fit to be among the
true Britons:lie thought I would report them, and
begged me to go.' I would not, and he knocked
me down twice. On the r Ith day, about ten
o'clock,' he told mei (mould not o home; be
would make me Sick bere the week was , out ; I
told him I did not mind it. He and George Co-
Erayne lung eut aikod as they could, that m cafe
they could not dear" the marines, they would
+ill the dicers out revenge ; that their aim,

rides were gone out of the (hip, and if that would
not do they would blow the !hip up. Thomas
Symonds, a foretop man, was there at the fame
time, :bud faid to me he was lorry he had not kill-
ed the (Steers on Sunday ; he had it in his power
at the time, as he had a crow bar in leis hand.—
George Dixon gave me a kick, and I went away,
and bow went there again.
EN,nnind hy Captain Eykr, the Pretender.
or.
Did you ever hear any of the prifoners call
thenifelves delegates ?—A. Yes, on Thurfday night,
Fitzgerald, Collins, and Chellerman.
O. I:clate the words Fitzgerald made ufe of
he called himfelf a delegate ?—A. They were
flaking to all the men in the forecaille ; they all
thrc: ftid don't you know we arc delegates of the
flip for your own benefit?' fome anfwered • yes'—
this was on the loth in the afternoon, when Cannan
was going to he cobbcd.
tz,_ Dia they not fay they timid give all orders
for puniihmebt !—A. They faid they should punilh
themiclves.

Qz_ Dia they fay the officers lhould have nothing
to do with it ?—A. Yes, Cheiterman faid to Mr.
Forfar, the Lieutenant, no man fhould he punifbed
aft, they would punifh them themfelves.
Whm Christopher White was attempting to
unthip the laddcrs,did you hear him call out 'Fitz,
Fitz, it will be proper to fend a B—r after the
crow bar?'—A. Yes, I heard him lay fo, and there
was no fear but he would go through it.
Qz. Did you hearWilliamllilliard, the prifoner,
cry out on Sunday the oth, with his hands up to
his mouth, lower down the ports?'—A. I did, on
the [larboard fide.

Q._ Did you ever hear the prifoner, John May-
field, fay' he would fee himfclt damned before he
would go nut °ldle land P--A. I did, on the fore-
callic,fitiaing his pig Jam eslira rd was with him.

Examimel by Admiral Hallway.
You have 11tid in the begmninfl of your nat...
rative that there were 19 or 20 perfens affemhled,
who fwore they would go through the bufinefs.
Did you either at that or any other time fee them
make dfc of a book to bind themselves to be true
to each ether ?—A. Yes.

Q. Do you know siho were the mcfrmates of
James Ward ?—Ycs, Jofeph Drinkall, Whitfield,
Mayfield, Ward, eras, and Lockier.
Q.: At the :i•ne you went forward to the nipper-
locket s, and ftw the cartridges of powder you have
defcribed, did you hear Daly or any other prifoner
at the bar fay they had brought that powder there
to dck.nd themfclves ?—A. I heard Daly fay to
Bill Hilliard, we have plenty of powder forward
in the nipper-lockers to cool the officers' temper,
and if that would not do, tbey would ruth aft
and kill all the offiect Hilliard laid, that will
do very ‘vell, to my hearing, on the (larboard fide.
Examinal Ihit:1:.11, the Prffidersi.
Q From the la to the t Ith of December, in
the cou:fc ulthare did you fee in any of the
births either 13 the tuidc:lc or loWer deck any more
of the i;arrlcn or marines adminilleting the oath
the ',liftmen be;, e mentioned had taken in their
own birth, or any other oath to fiand by them-
felves ?—A. No, did not.

At the time Daly was looking out at the
!I:u.. to-hole to fcc if boats were coming, did you
übferve any of the prifoners caning look any of
the tackle of the foreman guns?--A. Fitzgerald
told than he would foon get two guns pointed aft,
for the guns were loaded ready.
Q._ Did you know the guns were loaded ?
A. No.

R- Did you know that all the lower deck guns
were loaded !—A. Snowden ftid there were many
of them loaded.

Cris-examitied 6y John 111/7,ft.ld.
Q.: At what time of the day did you fee the fea-
men take the oath ?--A. In the morning, about
nine o'clock.

Crelkeximined b 7 .7q1;•41.6 Pard.
Q` Where did you fee me at the time they were
taking the oath ?—A. Abreaft the fore-gun.
Crtyi-examined by games Cher; -hat.
Q~ Can yon recolleCt any perfon who was pre.
fent to certify you faw me take the oath, or handle
the book ?—A. None but them I mentioned before.
Ijo you recollect who &it took the oath ?
A. Fitzgerald was the firft man, Chefterman the
next. They (wore to be true to each other.
Admiral Holloway.—The Court would advife
you not to afk fuch queitions : you only Ramp the
fita (Ironer again ft you than it was before.
Prifoner.—Q_ What part of the quarter deck
was I in when you Paid I rung out No, No, when
the Admiral was giving orders ?—A. On the flax.
board fide of the quarter deck, dofe to the fore.
mott gun. In front almoft; there were not more
than five or fix men before it.

Q.:„ In what part of the forecafile was I when
Admiral Campbell came forward, and (poke Tome
words on Thurfday ?--A. He fiood by midthips,
and came over to the larboard fide to the rank
where the Captain was fhoved. He was one of them.
Q, Can you point out any perfon at the time
that heard me exprefs the words, that I no-
minated myfelf as delegate for his lajetly's chip
the Temcraire "—A. It was dark, but I knew
his yoke : there were 6o or 7o people. He was
one of them.

Admiral Mitchel.—lf there was any doubt of
eflablilhing charges againll you, you would crimi•
nate yourielves.
Prifoner.—To the bell of your knowledge, what
time cf the evening was it ?—A. A few minutes
after five, when Cannan was cobbed.
Croft-examined by join Fitzgerald.
What time were the words fpoken to you
in our birth, 'that y need not be afraid r—A.
On Wednefday and Thurfday ; likewife before all
his meirmates: James Kelly was facing me: I was
between Fitzgerald and Chellerman.
Croft examined by jofepb Rowland.
Q_ Do yon recoiled on any occafion fince you
have-been on board, my faying the cord Damn'
and fuch like, too commonly Ad ?—A. I efficci..
ally heard you when you hove the capitals bar, and
Paid you would not go out of the land.
Thomas Jones alked no Qellion.
Croji.exmained by ?roma: Croft.
Q What day, and 'what time of the day, did
youree ma talk to any of ;be Fifa= is Fitzge.

raid's birth ?—A. I faw him on Wednefday and
.Thurfday in Fitzgerald's birth : alfo in Ward's';
I faw him often there between the 111 and fah.

Qt. You fay George Perron was in the birth
when the letter was wrote to Admiral Campbell ;
where was he fitting ?—A. Sitting in his own birth
on a (tool. Ido not know he was there all the time.
He was there the beginning of writing the letter.
(),:_Was he there at the time Crofs was?—A. I
believe he was : I am not pofitive.
Where was I fitting at the time ?—A. He
did not fit at all : he was leaning over the table,
(peaking to Taylor.
William Cook. No queflion.
CrO-exavtined &y Chriflotber White.
Q Can you point any man who faw me at the
lower ladder ?—A. Yes, Paul Rouireau, and many
more. Sutherland was here.

Croft-exatained by John Collitu.
O, You fail you law me and others inviting the
(hip's company to go aft ; what part of the (hip
was I in ?—A. On the larboard fide of the lower
deck.

O When the hammocks were going up on
Thurfday you Paid you heard me fay, Damn you,
you don't know your own mind's ; what time was
it ?'—A. In the morning about nine o'clock ; he
was (landing on the forecaftle.
Croft examined by yaw: Leekier.
Q:you fay it was about nine o'clock in the fore-
noon you faw me, can you recoiled any other vet.-
fon who faw me ?—A. I cannot recoiled any other
than I have mentioned.

Croft examined bj yam Cummiru.
QYou fay I called for (hut; whereabouts was
I when I called for shot ?—A. Nigh to your birth,
dole to me ; I moved a bit from the place I was
(Landing on, and he defired me to Rand m y ground
and Ping out for fhot as loon as the officers came
down.

OYou faid I was putting words in the letter ;
do you know what they were ?—A. I cannot fay,
becaufe you did not (peak load enough to let any
one hear.

Cry:Le:ea:nisei I by Williarn Hilliard,
Q. Do you think it was poffible for a man to
pats through the chip's company forward, or fee
through them on Sunday after the ports were
down—A. No, not very well in tome parts.
What fide was I on when the ladder was un-
fhipped?—A. He crolfed over on both fides; he
was on the !larboard fide.

Q._ Where was I when you heard me ring out for
(hot 7—A. On the (larboard fide, to the bea of my
knowledge.
Croft examined ly Join Daly.
Qt. Was any one by when I made ufe of thofc
barbarous expreMons you raid I did ?—A. Ycs,
James Ward. He made ufe of as bad expredlons.
He raid he would net leave the capflan bar to go
out of the land.

Q._ What time of the day was it?—A. On
Sunday the 6th, before to o'clock.
Qz... Where was you llanding, when you faw me
look out through the hawfer.hole was abreaft
of it ; and I fpokc to Daly myfelf : I afked him
if he faw any thins coming. He gave me no an-
fwer.

(Z_ Was my body, or head, or any part out of
the hawfer-hole ?—A. No part at all ; but he was
looking out to fee whether any boats were coming.
The Court adjourned.
SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, JAN. 7.
.7anzes R?ckarcfcn Avorn.
I went down to the lower deck for a meet of
writing paper. On the !larboard fide I found
Edward Taylor, and afked him to write a letter.
He laid, You had better wait till this bufinefs is
fettled.' I then afked him what it was ? I
dared fay it was nothing concerning us.' He an-
fwered, Yes; it was concerning the whole (hip's
company.' He then told me the fhip was going
to the Weft Indies ; and that all hands were go-
ing on the quarter-deck to tell the Admiral they
would not go. I then looked round, and faw James
Chefterman and John Snowden difcourfing toge-
ther, and a number liftening to them. I heard
Chefterman alit Snowden if he was agreeable to
go to fpeak to the Admiral ? Snowden Laid, he
had no objelion, if he could get another or two
to fpeak with him ; that was agreed to. Chewer-
man Laid, All we have to do is to let the peo-
ple in the middle deck know it.' Taylor anfwer-
ed, ' Here is one who belongs to the middle deck
will do.' Chefterman then touched me on the
amidst, telling me all I have before mentioned ;
and alked me if I would go and let the people of
the middle deck know of it? I then went up, and
told my meffmates, John Clements and joreph
Wynn. They began to laugh at me, and raid
there was nobody there wanted to hear of it.
Johnfon was reading a book ; I afked whit it
was? I told him the particulars I heard below ;
and afked him if he chofe to let the people know
on the middle deck ? He made no anfwer. As
I found there was nothing to be done, and it was
raining, I went down again. I went down : and
my meffmates told me it was all true. I wilted
who told them ? One of them pointed to James
Chefterman, who was going round the deck.—
Some time after I went on the poop, and fwabbed
it, and coming down again, I faw a number col-
lated on the forecaft'e, and calling others out of
the walk. I went on the forecallle, and heard
Chefterman and Snowden talking 'together. fay-
ing, they wifhed they could get the other man to
go along with them. I afked who he was ? They
refuted to tell me : 'but told me he was oa the
poop. I gueffed it was Barny Young. I told
them they need not wait for him, as it was his
watch upon deck, and he would not come down;
the people began fhoving one another aft on the
gangway, till-they were flopt by the officer on
the watch at the quarter deck. The Captain came
out, and afked what they wanted there ? Some
of them wanted to know where the fhip was go-
ing to. The Admiral came out, and alksal what
was the matter ? The Captain told him the (hip's
company wanted to know where the fhip was
going? The Admiral anfwered, to Hell, if the
is ordered, and we mutt go with her.' I wasion
the gangway. There was moue converfation I
could not hear. The Admiral defired them 'o
go down below, and tnakc theznielves quiet,

which was done I then Went urns the rnrp and
(laid till my watch was out. Went to
dinner, my mellinate, told me :he .id hr.d been
paged when ands were turned lip ro bend faiis,
to go down to the lower deck. James eh:Herman
in the afternool &fired me to lc:: that ev,:l y otr-
fon and metrmates in the niidd:e deck al !:
grog, and that any mar. wl••. was '...-ou';d be
turned down on the lower deck, ao. c. ,bed. Ott
Sunday morning the wind tw...! paired irzfore,
when hands turneJup'to bend fail:, to go dc:wil to
the over deck as before. were turned
up about eleven to bend the fail,„ which was donc.•
as ufual. After falls *etc bent; I went down to
dinner. After I got my 1 -.vent to the iov.-er
deck, where I law James Chcitt :±anti in hi, (itch
birth. I glad him what they were going to do;
whether to unmoor the iltip or not s ale Bird he
did not know. During the time we were difoourting;
Edward Taylor came down, and afited, what we
, were to do ? Clieflertnan anfwered he did not
know. He fail we malt loon w, there is no
time to be 1011, as the hailds would ix turned up
to unmoor as loon as they had got their dinner.—
I then went to the middle deck to my birth, where
I (Laid till my grog was nerved ow. As loom as I
got my grog, a man came and palled wordfor
us to go down below, but who it was I do not ne.
collat. I went down to the lower deck, and flood
along fide Jaines Ward. I asked him what he waa
going to do? He anfwered, he did not know yet,
but he believed he was going to lower the porta
down—.the words were hardly fpoken when Will.
Hilliard was in the manger and putting his hand
to his mouth, tinging out with a loud voice-'—
What do you fay lads, one and all, fore and aft
lower away ports r He had no anfwer the Srli
time ; then he repeated the fame words overagain,
and the ports were lowered accordingly, and the
people all began cheering, and diced where the
Ihip was going ? Some of the ladders were unfhip-
ped, but the officers got down below, and fent all*
the people on the quarter deck. When they were
on the quarter deck the Admiral asked, What
all that noife was below ?' A great deal palled, but
I could not hear it. I went away. After that
Edward Taylor told me to go down to the lower
deck. I was going up to the head, vliere4 law
John Collins, thc prifoncr, fmoking a pipe on the
forecaftle • I aced hint what the people were
talking ofbelow ? he anfwered he did not know till
fix o'clock ; he told me I might as well comedown
then, and I Ihould know. Pitt as we had ended,
John; Cummins, the prifoner, came up atafard,
there is Franey on the foregratings asdrank as hell,
land quarrelling with every body that comes pall.
Collins knocked the lire out of his pipe, and went
below with John Cummins ; I followed them, but
when we came there, Franey was gone. John
Collins went tip again, and I went to tht lower
dick and raw Franey in his own birth. I went
up again tinder the forecastle, and Collins asked
me if I had Gen any thing cf Franey fnce? I
t-)1d him yes, he was in his own birth. He af4:l
me if I thought he was drunk I told him I
thought he was: I had fees hips in the foregtat-
ings, as I came up the firfl time. I then suer; to
my own birth, and ilaid till ft: o'clock- I wen: to
the lower deck, on the larboard tide; there I raw
Edward Taylnr, John Collins, John Cheffermatt,
John Fitzgei ald, James Ward, and James Lockier.
The two latter were in their own birth ; they were
all fpcaking about carrying the hammocks up in
the morning, and a number of people were lillat-
ing to them. The people who dept aft were 14
come forward. I heard fay hehad palled
the word aft ; and the people had all agreed Wit.
After the difcourfe was fettled about the haw
mocks, Edward Taylor obfcrvcd to the company
they mull beware of Mr. Stanton, ;he znaller's
mate. John Collins made anfwer, raying, d—n
him, he will be no trouble at all ; we can fmother
him in his bed.' I laid,' Collins, hope you Will
do no filch thing; he anfweied, aMn my blood,
what's one man's life to a thoufand 1' I laid' Jack,
I hope there are none going to lore their lives.'—
Taylor obferved, he hoped we could do it without
it, but there was one more man we mull take care
of, John Blake, the boatlwain's mate. One amuug
the croud Paid damn him, we can huille hi&
among ourfelves.' I went away a little while al-
ter ; T met Taylor on the lower deck, and asked
him if he was going forward again to mela fuels
a noife as in the afternoon ? (aid he did not
know. I told him I thought it would be better to
get three men to (peak to the Admiral when he
came to the hatchway, for that when we were to-
lether making filch 'a noik, no one could know
what the Admiral laid, or the Admiral what the
(hip's company laid ; he laid, he thought that
would be the bell way, if we could get any body to
fpeak to the Achniral. I told him; 4 Ldare fay,
there were plenty in the (hip would do it 2' he
Paid,' I dare fay John Collins will do it, and Jo-
fePh Rowland;' I then went away to the middle
deck. Between fix and km, I met joleph Row-
land on the middle deck, and began to tell hiaa
what Taylor and I had been talking about 2 he
raid, he was agreeable to (peak, as he thought it
better ;for two or three to (peak to ski Adrai-
ral than fo many. On Monday morning, I nut
Taylor on the middle deck, and alked lii* again,
about my letter ; he raid,' 'had better wait ano•
ther day or two ;' he told me when the hands ware
turned up to unmoor, to repair to the lower deck
again. Ater dinner, I was carrying my dirty
water to the head ; I Etw a parcel of people Rand-
, ing at the foremoll gun of the main deck ; 1 few
Franey over the a—e of the gun, and James C 141.-
terznan, with a pair of pea-fqtteezers in his hard,
I to cob him-with ; before he began, he poked otf
his hat and• laid, he was going to cob him for
breaking the rules and laws of the (hip's company
then he gave him a dozen.
On five o'clock it, the evening of Monday I was
going down the starboard fide of the lower deck,
when I met Cook, the prifoner, who ailed me
where I was going ? I told him no whoeo in parti-
cular ; he fitict, you may as well look out here ; I
afkcd, what for? he laid they were going to do
lonic bufiners; I told him I was going to look cut
on the other fide; I went back, and crolled ore •
the fore-gratings, and went into Cheftertran')
birth, where Fitzgerald and Cheltersogi were

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