72 TEIAL OF THE MUTINEERS. 
written to Mary, James, and Nessy, my turn 
must come next, or I shall feel jealous. Heaven 
grant we may soon embrace you in the island ! 
You may expect to be almost suffocated with 
caresses for the first week. Adieu ! Take care 
of your health, and keep up your spirits, my dear 
Peter. Your affectionate and faithful sister, 
" ELIZA HEYWOOD." 
Nessy added these few lines: " For me 
there is no room left, but to say that his faithful 
and affectionate Nessy sends ten thousand bless- 
ings, the best which Heaven can bestow, and 
every wish that love and friendship can dictate, 
to her best beloved brother, PETEB." 
Then came the trial, and the conviction! 
The first clause of the 19th Article of War 
(22d Geo. II.) is this, " If any person in or 
belonging to the fleet shall make, or endeavour 
to make, any mutinous assembly, on any pretence 
whatever ; every person offending herein, and 
being convicted thereof, by the sentence of the 
court-martial shall suffer Death." 
The Court-Martial was held at Portsmouth, 
on board his Majesty's ship, Duke, on the 12th 
Sept. 1792. 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 Roger Curtis, 
John Bazeley, Sir Andrew S. Douglas, John 
T. Duckworth, John 1ST. Inglefield, John Knight, 
Albemarle Bertie, E. G. Keats. 
