They wasted so much ammunition on this useless display of fury that the buildings were completely riddled.

A few of the old soldiers opposed them, and were wounded; but it fortunately happened that they were, to an inconceivable degree, ignorant of the right use of firearms--holding their muskets in their hands when they discharged them, without allowing the butt-end to rest against their shoulders or any part of their bodies.

This fact accounts for the comparatively little mischief they did in proportion to the quantity of ammunition thrown away.
'The officers and sergeant-major escaped at the back of the building, while Colonel Bush and Adjutant Bentley came down a little hill.

The colonel commanded the mutineers to lay down their arms, and was answered by an irregular discharge of balls, which rattled amongst the leaves of a tree under which he and the adjutant were standing.

On this Colonel Bush desired Mr.Bentley to make the best of his way to St.James's Barracks for all the disposable force of the 89th Regiment.