1788-07-02 (static/transcriptions/1788/07/053.jpg)

2d Wts for the King
Robert Marshall

I arrived in Bengal last October as a Compy’s recruit but was rejected on account of a lameness in my hip; I therefor expected to go back to Europe by one of the latter ships of this last season. On the night when Serjeants Ross & Towe were robbed, I was in the Artillery barracks where I was quartered. Serjt Towe came in without his hat, betw 8 & 9 o’clock, on about 9, and told how he had been