of the enormity of their guilt. Of those subsequently taken and brought to punishment, some, from repentance, others, from hardened shamelessness, confessed their guilt, and gave minute details of the horrid transaction.

East Indies.

Although no event of a strictly warlike character happened in the eastern quarter of the globe during the year 1797, an occurrence equally within the province of the naval annalist forces itself upon our attention. Sometime in the month of October that baneful spirit of mutiny and insubordination, which had caused such a sensation in England, burst forth among the few British ships of war stationed at the Cape of Good Hope. It began in the form of a complaint against the captain of a particular ship, and then spread over the whole squadron. Nothing but the most prompt measures on the part of the governor, Lord Macartney, and of Rear-admiral Pringle and General Dundas, put a stop to the violence of the mutineers. At length, the latter delivered up their delegates. Many of these were executed, and others severely flogged ; and, after a short time, good order and discipline again prevailed in the squadron.

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