Next morning, the 27th February, William Webber was again called before the fiscal, and offered his life if he would produce the letter and postscript he confessed to have received from John Clark, which he could not do, as it never had existed:  Yet, at last, they pardoned him, and sent him to the rest of those who were freed, and Sharrock with him, whom they also pardoned.  That morning, Emanuel Thomson, learning that John Beaumont was pardoned, contrived to have him allowed to visit him, which was allowed with much difficulty.  Beaumont found him in a most miserable condition, the wounds or sores occasioned by the torture bound up, but the blood and matter issuing through the bandages.  Taking Mr Beaumont by the hand, he conjured him, when he came to England, to offer his duty to the Honourable Company, and others of his friends whom he named, and to assure them he died innocent, as was well known to Beaumont.

It is needless to dwell upon the minute circumstances of the catastrophe of this bloody tragedy:  Suffice it to say, that ten Englishmen, one Portuguese, and eleven Japanese, were publicly executed; of whom the following is a list: 

   English.

   Capt.  Gabriel Towerson, agent for the English at Amboina. 
   Samuel Colson, factor at Hitto. 
   Emanuel Thomson, assistant at Amboina. 
   Timothy Johnson, assistant at the same place. 
   John Wetheral, assistant at Cambello. 
   John Clark, assistant at Hitto.

   William Griggs, factor at Larika. 
   John Fardo, steward of the factory at Amboina. 
   Abel Price, surgeon to that factory. 
   Robert Brown, tailor.

The only Portuguese was Augustine Perez, born in Bengal, who was superintendant of the slaves in the employment of the English at Amboina.

Japanese.  Hititso, Tsiosa, and Sinsa, natives of Firando.  Sidney Migial, Pedro Congie, Thomas Corea, from Nangasaki.  Quinandaya, a native of Coaets.  Tsabinda, a native of Tsoncketgo.  Zanchae, a native of Fisien.

Besides these, there were two other Japanese tortured, who both confessed a participation in the pretended plot, but were not executed, or even condemned, for reasons which the surviving English did not learn.  The executions were all by cutting off the heads of the condemned with a scymitar; and the Dutch prepared a black velvet pall for Captain Towerson’s body to fall upon, which they afterwards had the effrontery to charge in account against the English East India Company.

SECTION XV.

OBSERVATIONS DURING A RESIDENCE IN TISLAND OF CHUSAN, IN 1701, BY DOCTOR JAMES CUNNINGHAM; WITH SOME EARLY NOTICES RESPECTING CHINA.[318]