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      Account of the Mutineers in the Bounty , 1789 . ; ( From the Quarterly Review . ) IT is well known that' in the year 1789 his Majesty ' s armed vessel the Bounty , while employed in Conveying the bread fruit tree from Otaheite to the British colonies in the

      West Indiesj was taken from her commander , Lieutenant William Bligh , by a part of the crew , who , headed by Fletcher Christian , a . master ' s mate , mutinied off the island of fT 6-

      foa , put the lieutenant , with the Remainder of the ; crew , consisting of eighteen persons , into the ? . launch , which after a . passageof 1200 leagues , providentially arrived at a Dutch settlement on the Island of Timor . The

      mutineers , twenty-five in number , were supposed , from some expressions which escaped them , when the launch was turned a-dfift , to have made sail towards Otaheite . As soon as this circumstance was known to

      the Admiralty , Captain Edwards was ordered to proceed in the Pandora to that Island , and endeavour to discover and bring to England the Bounty , ¦ with such of the crew as he might be able to secure . On his arrival in March , 1791 , at Matavai Bay , in

      Otaheite , four of the mutineers came voluntarily on board the Pandora to surrender themselves ; and from information given by them , ten others ( the whole number alive upon the island ) were , in the course of 3 . few days taken ; and with the exception of four , who perished in the wreck of

      the Pandora , near Endeavour Strait , conveyed to England for trial before a court martial , which adjudged six of them to suffer death , and acquitted tlje other four . From the accounts given by these men , as well as from some documents that were preserved , it appeared that as soon as Lieutenant Bligh had been

      driven from the ship , the twenty-five mutineers proceeded with her to Toobouai , where they proposed to settle ; but the place being found to hold out little encouragement , they returned to Otaheite , and having there laid in a large supply of stock , they once more took their departure for

      Toobouai , carrying with them eight men , nine women and seven boys , natives of Otaheite . They commenced , on their second arrival , the building of a fort , but by divisions among themselves arid , quarrels with the natives , the design was abandoned .

      Christian , the leader , also very soon discovered ^ that his au thority over his accomplices was at an end ; he there fore proposed that they should return to Otaheite ; that as many as chose it should be put on shore at that l

      m — — island , and that the rest should proceed in the ship to any other place they might think proper . Accordingly they once more put to sea , and reached Matavai on the 20 th of

      Sep-Here sixteen of the five and twenty desired to be landed , fourteen of whom , as already mentioned , were taken on board the Pandora ; of the other two , as reported by Coleman , ( the first who surrendered himself to Captain Edwards ) one had been made a chief , killed his companion , and was shortly afterwards murdered himself by the natives .

      Christian , with the remaining eight of the mutineers , having taken on board several of the natives of Otaheite , the greater part women , put to sea on the night between &lst and 22 d September , 1789 ; in the

      morning the ship was discovered from Point Venus , steering in a north-westerly direction ; and here terminate the accounts given by the mutineers who were either taken or surrendered themselves at Matavai Bay * The

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      tio . CXXI . J JANUARY , 1815 . [ Vol . XI .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/1/