64 TRIAL OF THE MUTINEERS. 
viction. The first clause of the 19th Article 
of War (22d Geo. II.) is this," If any per- 
son in or belonging to the fleet shall make, 
or endeavour to make, any mutinous assem- 
bly, on any pretence whatever; every per- 
son offending herein, and being convicted 
thereof, by the sentence of the court-martial 
shall suffer Death." 
The Court-Martial for trying the prisoners 
was held at Portsmouth on board his Ma- 
jesty's ship, Duke, on the 12th Sept. 1792. 
Bligh was absent on duty at the time. 
Vice- Admiral Lord Hood was the President 
The officers who sat at the trial, were 
Captains, Sir A. S. Hamond, Bart., John 
Colpoys, Sir Geo. Montagu, Sir Koger Cur- 
tis, John Bazeley, Sir Andrew S. Douglas, 
John T. Duckworth, John N. Inglefield, John 
Knight, Albemarle Bertie, R. G. Keats. 
The names of the ten prisoners, capitally 
charged with mutiny and piracy, were, Peter 
Heywood, James Morrison, Thomas Ellison, 
Thomas Burkitt, John Millward, William 
Musprat, Charles Norman, Joseph Coleman, 
Thomas M'Intosh, and Michael Byrne. 
The trial was concluded on the sixth day, 
