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HARANGUES OF THE DELEGATES 231
Brilliant offered to go on shore, and Gregory ordered
them to be put in irons. 1
Houston, a mutineer of the Director, prevented Lieut.
Roscoe from reading the Proclamation, but read his own
version of it on the Director and on several other ships.
He explained that the words, " We have therefore
thought fit
" were " altogether a take in," and that the
promised pardon was " no pardon at all." 2
On the Hound sloop, Captain Wood, who was on very
friendly terms with the ship's company, himself read the
Act and the Proclamation, and the resolutions of the
meeting of merchants which had been given to him by
Admiral Buckner. But as he was reading, the boatload
of delegates came on board, and one of the delegates,
Appleyard, whose name appears very often in the reports
of the courts-martial, interrupted him. The scene is
vividly described by Captain Wood in his evidence at
Appleyard's trial :
Appleyard came up to me, took the proclamation out of my
hand, and told them it was a pack of flummery; and pointing
to one part, 3 he said that would hang them all. They had
nothing to do but stick true to the cause they had embarked
in, and they would bring them through it : that they had
waggon-loads of the same papers on board the Sandwich.
Finding he was not attended to, he turned round to the people
and said they were a set of damn'd rascals, who were led by
the nose by their Captain. He then went towards the gangway
saying that he would go on board the Sandwich and that
they would sink us. He was then shoved or struck by one of
my men, named John Driscoll, off the gun as he was going
into the boat. He then repeated his threats that he would go
and they should sink us, alleging to the delegates, that were
then on board the Hound from the different
ships, that they
that they
were a set of cowardly rascals on board the Hound ;
had run from their Admiral at sea ; that they had sworn to
be true to them, and now they wanted to leave them. He
then went on board the Sandwich.
1. Evidence at Gregory's trial.
2. A.S.I. 727, C 380.
3. The clause excepting ringleaders from the pardon