Carlow County. D. Latouche, G. O'Bagenal. Carlow Town. C. Montague Ormsby. Cavan County. Nath. Sneyd, F. Saunderson. Clare County. Sir E. O'Brien, hon. F. N. Burton. Clonmell. William Bagwell. Cork County. Lord Boyle, R. H. Fitzgerald. Cork City. M. Longfield, hon. C. H. Hutchinson. Coleraine. Walter Jones. Donegall County. Lord Sudley, sir James Stewart. Down County. Lord Castlereagh, F. Savage. Downpatrick. Counsellor Haythorn. Drogheda. Edward Hardman. Dublin County., H. Hamilton, F. J. Faulkener. Dublin City. J. C. Beresford, J. Latouche. Dublin College. Hon. Geo. Knox. milton. Fermanagh County. Lord Cole, Mervyn Archdall. Galway County. Hon. R. Trench R. Martin. Galway Town. J. Brabazon Ponsonby. Kerry County. M. Fitzgerald, James Crosbie. Kildare County. Lord R. Fitzgerald, Robert Latouche, Kilkenny County. Right honourable able W. B. Ponsonby, honourable J. Butler. ler. Kilkenny City. Hon. Chas. But King's County. Sir L. Parsons, T. Bernard. Kinsale. James C. Rowley. Leitrim County. Lord Clements, P. Latouche, jenior. Limerick County. C. S. Oliver, W. Odell. Limerick City. Charles Vereker. Lisburne. Earl of Yarmouth. Londonderry County. Lord G. Beresford, hon. C. T. Stewart. - Londonderry City. Sir G. Fitzgerald Hill. Longford County. Hon. T. Newcomen, sir T. Featherstone. Louth County. Right hon. J. Foster, W. G. Fortescue. Mallow. Denham Jephson. Mayo County. Hon. H. A. Dillon, hon. D. Browne. Meath County. Sir M. Somerville, T. Bligh. Monaghan County. R. Dawson, C. P. Leslie. Newry. Right hon. Isaac Corry. Portarlington. Henry Parnell. Queen's County. Hon. W. W. Pole, Sir E. Coote. Roscommon County. Hon. E. King, Arthur French. Ross (New). Charles Tottenham, The prisoners were fourteen in number, viz. Mayfield, Ward, Chesterman, Fitzgerald, Rowland, Jones, Cross, Cook, White, Collins, Lockyer, Comayne, Hilliard, and Daley. The charges against them were, first, making, or endeavouring to make, mutinous assemblies: second, uttering seditious expressions; and for concealing traiterous and seditious words spoken, and tending to the hindrance of his majesty's service, and not revealing the same to their commanding officer: third, being present at such meeting and sedition, and not using their utmost endeavours to suppress the same, between the 1st and 11th day of December 1801. The principal evidence for the prosecution was James Richardson, a seaman, who gave the following account of the mutiny: "I went down to the lower deck for a sheet of writing paper. On the starboard side I found Edward Taylor, and asked him to write a letter. He said, you had better wait till this business is settled. I then asked him what it was saying at the same time, that I supposed it was nothing concerning us. He answered, yes, it was concerning the whole of the ship's company. He then told me the ship was going to the West Indies, and that all hands were gone on the quarter-deck to tell the admiral they would not go. I then looked round and saw James Chesterman and John Snowden discoursing together, and a number listening to them. I heard Chesterman ask Snowden if he was agreeable to go to the admiral and speak to him. Snowden said he had no objection, if he got another or two to speak with him. That was agreed to, and Chesterman said, all we have to do is to let the people on the middledeck know it. Taylor answered, here is one who belongs to the middle-deck; he will do. Chesterman then touched me on the shoulder, and, telling me all I have before mentioned, asked me if I would go and let the people on the middledeck know of it. I then went up and told my messmates, John Clements and Joseph Wynne: but they began to laugh at me, and said there was nobody there wanted to hear of it. Johnson, who was reading a book, asked what it was I said? I told him the particulars I heard below, and asked him if he chose to let the people know on the middleHeck ? but he made no answer. As J found there was nothing to be done, and I found it raining, I went down again, and my messmates told me it was all true. I asked who told them? One of them pointed to James Chestesman, who was going round the deck. Some time after ward I went into the poop and swabbed it, and coming down again, saw a number collected on the forecastle, and calling others out of the waist. I went on the forecastle and heard Chesterman and Snowden talking together, saying they wished they could get the other man to go along with them. I asked who he was? They refused to tell me, but said he was on the poop. I guessed it was Barney Young. I told them they need not wait for him, as it was his watch upon deck, and he could not come down. The peo ple began shouting one another aft on the gangway till they were stop ped by the officers on the watch at the quarter-deck. The captain came out and asked what they wanted there? Some of them answered, they wanted to know where the ship was going to. The admiral came out and asked what was the matter? The captain told him, the ship's company wanted to know where the ship was going to. The admiral answered, "to hell, if she is ordered, and we must go with her." I was on the gangway: there was more conversation, but I could not hear it. The admiral desired them to go down and make themselves quiet, which was done. I then went upon the poop and staid till my watch was out. When I went to dinner, my messmates told me the word had been passed, that when bands should be turned up to bend sails, they were to go down to the lower deck. In the evening James Chesterman desired me to see that every person and messmate in the middledeck drank their grog, and that any man who was drunk would be turned down down in the lower-deck and cobbed. On Sunday morning the word was passed. This was the 6th of December. As before, when hands turned up to bend sails, they were to go down to the lower-deck. About eleven o'clock the hands were turned up to bend sails as usual. After sails were bent, I went down to dinner, Having dined, I went to lower-deck, where I saw Chesterman in his own birth, and I asked him what they were going to do, if to unmoor the ship or not? He answered, he, did not know. During the time we were discoursing, Edward Taylor came down and asked what we were to do? Chesterman again answered he did not know, but that we must soon know there was no time to be lost, as the hands would be turned up to unmoor, as soon as we had got our dinners. I then went to the middle-deck to my birth, where I staid till my grog was served out. As soon as I got my grog, a man came and passed the word for us to go down below, but who it was I do not recollect. After this I went down to the lower-deck, and stood alongside James Ward, and asked what he was going to do? he answered, he did not know yet, but he believed he was going to lower the ports down. The words were hardly spoken when William Hilliard was putting his hand to his mouth in the manger, and singing put in a loud voice, "What do you say lads, one and all, fore and aft, lower away ports?" He had no answer the first time; he soon repeated the same words again, and the ports were lowered accordingly, and the people all began cheering, and asking where the ship was going. Some of the ladders were unshipped. But the officers got down below, and sent all the people on the quarter-deck. When there, the admiral asked them what all that noise was about below? A great deal passed, but I could not hear it, and I went away. After that, Edward Taylor first told me to go down to the lower-deck. I was going to the head when I saw John Collins, the prisoner, smoking a pipe on the forecastle; I asked him what the people were talking of below? He answered, I might as well come down, then I should know. Just as we had ended, John Cumings, the pri soner, came up and said. There's Franey in the fore-gratings as drunk as hell, and quarrelling with every person he meets. With that Collins knocked the fire out of his pipe and went below with John Cumings. I followed them, but when we came there, Franey was gone. John Collins went up again, and I went to the lower-deck, and saw Franey in his own birth. I went up again under the forecastle, and Collins asked me if I had seen any thing of Franey since? I told him yes, he was in his own birth. He asked me if I thought he was drunk? I told him I thought he was. I had seen him in the foregratings as I came up the first time. I then went to my own birth, and staid till six o'clock; then I went to the lower deck on the larboard side. There I saw Edward Taylor, John Collins, John Chester, man, John Fitzgerald, Janies Ward, and James Lockyer. The two lat ter were in their own births. They were all speaking about carrying the hammocks up in the morning, and a number of people were listening to them. The people who slept aft were to come forward. I heard Col. lins say he had passed the word aft, and the people had all agreed to it After After the discourse was concluded about the hammocks, Edward Taylor observed to the company, that they must beware of Mr. Staunton, the master's mate. John Collins made answer, saying, "Damn him, he will be no trouble at all; we can smother him in his bed." I said, Collins, I hope you will do no such thing," he answered, " Damn my blood, what's one man's life to a thousand." I said, "Jack, I hope there are no..a going to lose their lives." Taylor observed, he hoped we could do without it, but there was one man more we must take off. John Blake, the boatswain's mate, one among the crowd, said, “D--n him, we can hustle him among ourselves." I went away; a little while after I met Taylor on the lower-deck, and asked him if he was going forward again, to make such a noise as in the afternoon? He said he did not know. I told him I thought it would be better to get three men to speak to the admiral when he came to the hatchway, for that when we were together, making such a noise, no man could hear the admiral, nor the admiral hear us. He said, he thought that would be the best way, if we could get any body to speak to the admiral. I told him I dared say there were plenty in the ship who would do it. He then mentioned John Collins and Joseph Rowland. Between six and seven, I met Rowland on the middle-deck, and began telling him what Taylor and I had been talking about. He said, he was agreeable to speak, as he thought it better for two or three to speak to the admiral than so many. On Monday, the 7th, in the morning, I met Taylor in the middle-deck, and asked him again about my letter. A He said I had better wait another day or two. He told me when the hands were turned up to unmoor, to repair to the lower-deck again. After dinner, as I was carrying my dirty water to the head, I saw a parcel of people standing at the foremost gun of the main deck; Francy over the hawser of the gun, and James Chesterman with a pair of pea-squeezers in his hand to cob him with. Before he began, he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship's company. Then he gave him a dozen. At five o'clock in the evening of Monday, I was going over the shipboard side of the lower-deck, when I met Cook, the prisoner, who asked me where I was going: I told him no where in particular; he said, you may as well look out here. I asked what for? He answered, they were going to do some business. I told him I was going to look out on the other side. I went back and crossed over the foregratings, and went unto Chesterman. Fitzgerald and Chesterman were talking about it. Chesterman called William Lockwood, and asked him if he would look out? They went out of the birth, and were taking a man out of every birth, all the way aft to the main hatchway. As Chesterman came back, he gave the watch-word. If any officer came forward, the watchword was given in a chew of tobacco. Then he went into the midshipman's birth under the bowsprit along with Edward Taylor, who began to write a letter. There was ne other man in the birth, or near, except the people looking out. An officer came forward; they sung out, who will give me a chew of tobacco? The candle was put out till the |