Captain Edwards bore testimony that Morrison voluntarily surrendered himself.

Mr. Fryer did not see Morrison armed; he was in his watch, and he considered him a steady, sober, attentive, good man; and acknowledged, that if he had remained in the ship, with the view of retaking her, Morrison would have been one of the first he should have called to his assistance.

Mr. Cole gave testimony to his being a man of good character, attentive to his duty, and he never knew any harm of him.

Mr. Purcell bore witness to his good character, being always diligent and attentive; did not see him under arms on the taffrail; never heard him use any jeering speeches.  Respecting the prisoner Muspratt, Mr. Cole’s evidence proves that he had a musket in his hands, but not till the latter part of the business; it is also proved that he assisted in getting things into the launch. Mr. Peckover saw him standing on the forecastle doing nothing—­he was not armed.

Lieutenant Hayward saw Muspratt among the armed men:  was asked, when Captain Bligh used the words, ’Don’t let the boat be overloaded, my lads’—­’I’ll do you justice’; do you understand the latter words, ’My lads, I’ll do you justice,’ to apply to clothes or to men, whom he apprehended might go into the boat? Witness—­If Captain Bligh made use of the words “my lads,” it was to the people already in the boat, and not to those in the ship.’ The Court—­’To whom do you imagine Captain Bligh alluded:  was it, in your opinion, to the men in the boat with him, or to any persons then remaining in the ship?’ Witness—­’To persons remaining in the ship.’

Against the prisoners Ellison, Burkitt, and Millward, the evidence given by all the witnesses so clearly and distinctly proved they were under arms the whole time, and actively employed against Bligh, that it is unnecessary to go into any detail as far as they are concerned.

The Court having called on the prisoners, each separately, for his defence, Mr. Heywood delivered his as follows:—­

’My lords and gentlemen of this honourable Court,—­Your attention has already been sufficiently exercised in the painful narrative of this trial; it is therefore my duty to trespass further on it as little as possible.

’The crime of mutiny, for which I am now arraigned, is so seriously pregnant with every danger and mischief, that it makes the person so accused, in the eyes, not only of military men of every description, but of every nation, appear at once the object of unpardonable guilt and exemplary vengeance.

’In such a character it is my misfortune to appear before this tribunal, and no doubt I must have been gazed at with all that horror and indignation which the conspirators of such a mutiny as that in Captain Bligh’s ship so immediately provoke; hard, then, indeed is my fate, that