Morrison, Ellison, Burkitt, Millward and Muspratt were condemned to
death, the two first being recommended to mercy. On October 24th Heywood
and Morrison received the King's pardon, and both re-entered the Navy,
Heywood to retire in 1816, when nearly at the head of the list of
captains; Morrison to go down in the ill-fated _Blenheim_ in which he was
serving as gunner. Muspratt also was pardoned, but the three others were
hanged on board the _Brunswick_ in Portsmouth Harbour on October 29th,
1792. Thus ended a voyage that, for adventure and discovery, deserves a
high place in the history of maritime enterprise in the Pacific. Voyages
take their rank from the scientific attainments and literary ability of
the men who record them, and the _Pandora_, unlucky in her fate as in her
ill-omened name, was scarcely less unfortunate in her historian.

B. T.

FOOTNOTES:

[10-1] Mr. Louis Becke, "The Mutineers."

[24-1] The _Gorgon_ also carried Lieut. Clark, of the Royal Marines,
whose journal of the voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island in 1789
throws a very interesting light upon the early days of the colony.
Unfortunately the journal says very little of the _Gorgon's_ voyage
home.

CAPTAIN EDWARDS' REPORTS.

"_Pandora_ in Sta Cruz Bay,
Teneriff,
25th November, 1790.

[R 28 Dec. and Read.]

SIR,

Be pleased to acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that I
sailed again from Jack-in-the-Basket with His Majesty's Ship _Pandora_
under my command on the 7th day of November, and anchored in Santa Cruz
by Teneriffe on the 22nd: that nothing particular occured in my passage
to this place, except that of my falling in with His Majesty's sloop
_Shark_ on the 17th November in Latitude 32 deg. 33' Longitude 13 deg. 40' W.
bound to Madeira with despatches for Rear Admiral Cornish, and my
learning from them that the matters in dispute with Spain were amicably
settled, of which circumstance I was unacquainted when I left England. I
am now compleating my water, and have taken on board full 3 months wine
for my compliment, with some fruit and vegetables, and purpose and
flatter myself that I shall be able to sail from hence this evening.
Inclosed I send the state and condition of His Majesty's Ship _Pandora_
for their Lordships' information, and I have the honour to be,

Sir,
Your most obedient and ever humble servant,
EDWARD EDWARDS.

Phillip Stevens, Esq."

"_Pandora_ at Rio Janeiro,
the 6th January,