I did not hear him speak, there could be no crime in my laughing.  It may, however, very fairly be asked, why Mr. Hallet did not make known that the captain was calling to me?  His duty to the captain, if not his friendship for me, should have prompted him to it; and the peculiarity of our situation required this act of kindness at his hands.[29] I shall only observe further upon this head, that the boatswain, the carpenter, and Mr. Hayward, who saw more of me than any other of the witnesses, did say in their evidence, that I had rather a sorrowful countenance on the day of the mutiny.

’Fourth.  That I remained on board the ship, instead of going in the boat with the captain.—­That I was at first alarmed and afraid of going into the boat I will not pretend to deny; but that afterwards I wished to accompany the captain, and should have done it, if I had not been prevented by Thompson, who confined me below by the order of Churchill, is clearly proved by the evidence of several of the witnesses.  The boatswain says, that just before he left the ship I went below, and in passing him said something about a bag—­(it was, that I would put a few things into a bag and follow him); the carpenter says he saw me go below at this time; and both those witnesses say that they heard the master-at-arms call to Thompson “to keep them below.”  The point, therefore, will be to prove to whom this order, “keep them below,” would apply.  The boatswain and carpenter say they have no doubt of its meaning me as one; and that it must have been so, I shall have very little difficulty in showing, by the following statement:—­

’There remained on board the ship after the boat put off, twenty-five men.  Messrs. Hayward and Hallet have proved that the following were under arms:—­Christian, Hillbrant, Millward, Burkitt, Muspratt, Ellison, Sumner, Smith, Young, Skinner, Churchill, M’Koy, Quintal, Morrison, Williams, Thompson, Mills, and Brown, in all eighteen.  The master (and upon this occasion I may be allowed to quote from the captain’s printed narrative) mentions Martin as one, which makes the number of armed men nineteen, none of whom, we may reasonably suppose, were ordered to be kept below.  Indeed, Mr. Hayward says, that there were at the least eighteen of them upon deck, when he went into the boat; and if Thompson, the sentinel over the arm-chest, be added to them, it exactly agrees with the number above-named; there remains then six, to whom Churchill’s order, “keep them below," might apply, namely, Heywood, Stewart, Coleman, Norman, M’Intosh, and Byrne.

’Could Byrne have been one of them? No, for he was in the cutter alongside.  Could Coleman have been one of them? No, for he was at the gangway when the captain and officers went into the launch, and aft upon the taffrail when the boat was veered astern.  Could Norman have been one of them? No, for he was