Folios 213-214: Edward Killwick, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Refers to his letter of...

Folios 213-214: Edward Killwick, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Refers to his letter of 18 September in which he reported that 21 of the impressed men had escaped by cutting out two of the gratings in the Press Room. Has now good information that Sampson or Samuel Biggs, who was put on the Princess by Captain Horton as a deserter from the Caesar, and is one of the number that got away was the first proposer and also executor of cutting away of the sides of the Princess. Encloses a letter which has been received directed to him (not with letter) together with his age and description. Unfortunately the"strongest spirit of mutiny" still continues amongst the impressed men. The night before last they had succeeded in scuttling three planks of the Main Deck, in the manger of the ship, and most likely there would have been a great many lives lost had it not been for the information of J. M. Fleming, one of the impressed men. Their plan was to get fifty or sixty men through this scuttle into the manger and pig stye and then make a rush for the arms on the Quarter Deck to take the ship, liberate all impressed men and to take revenge on the officers for one of their comrades being shot in the former mutiny. They have no complaints to make only that they are kept so long in what they call a dungeon before being sent to the Naval Ports. By the enclosed weekly account (not with letter) it will be seen that the numbers at this time are very large, the men in the Press Room almost in a state of suffocation.