speaking to the officers.  Could M’Intosh have been one of them? No, for he was with Coleman and Norman, desiring the captain and officers to take notice that they were not concerned in the mutiny.  It could then have applied to nobody but to Mr. Stewart and myself; and by this order of Churchill, therefore, was I prevented from going with the captain in the boat.

’The foregoing appear to me the most material points of evidence on the part of the prosecution.  My defence being very full, and the body of evidence in my favour too great to admit of observation in this concise manner, I shall refer for an opinion thereon to the minutes of the court-martial.

     (Signed) ‘P.  HEYWOOD.’

There is a note in Marshall’s Naval Biography,[30] furnished by Captain Heywood, which shows one motive for keeping him and Stewart in the ship.  It is as follows:—­’Mr. Stewart was no sooner released than he demanded of Christian the reason of his detention; upon which the latter denied having given any directions to that effect; and his assertion was corroborated by Churchill, who declared that he had kept both him and Mr. Heywood below, knowing it was their intention to go away with Bligh; “in which case,” added he, “what would become of us, if any thing should happen to you; who is there but yourself and them to depend upon in navigating the ship?"’ It may be suspected, however, that neither Christian nor Churchill told the exact truth, and that Mr. Heywood’s case is, in point of fact, much stronger than he ever could have imagined; and that if Bligh had not acted the part of a prejudiced and unfair man towards him, he would have been acquitted by the Court on the same ground that Coleman, Norman, M’Intosh, and Byrne were,—­namely, that they were detained in the ship against their will, as stated by Bligh in the narrative on which they were tried, and also in his printed report.  It has before been observed, that many things are set down in Bligh’s original manuscript journal, that have not appeared in any published document; and on this part of the subject there is, in the former, the following very important admission.  ’As for the officers, whose cabins were in the cockpit, there was no relief for them; they endeavoured to come to my assistance, but were not allowed to put their heads above the hatchway.’  To say, therefore, that in the suppression of this passage Bligh acted with prejudice and unfairness, is to make use of mild terms; it has more the appearance of a deliberate act of malice, by which two innocent men might have been condemned to suffer an ignominious death, one of whom was actually brought into this predicament;—­the other only escaped it by a premature death.  It may be asked, how did Bligh know that Stewart and Heywood endeavoured, but were not allowed, to come to his assistance?  Confined as he was on the quarter-deck, how could he know what was going on below?  The answer is, he must have