THE VERDICT. 73 
The names of the ten prisoners, capitally 
charged with mutiny and piracy, were, Peter 
Heywood, James Morrison, Thomas Ellison, 
Thomas Burkitt, John Millward, William Mus- 
pratt, Charles Norman, Joseph Colemaii, Tho- 
mas M'Intosh, and Michael Byrne. 
The trial was concluded on the sixth day, 
the 18th of September, when the prisoners were 
brought in. The court having agreed, that the 
charges of running away with the ship, and 
deserting his Majesty's service, had been proved 
against six of the prisoners, they found Heywood, 
Morrison, Ellison, Burkitt, Millward, and Mus- 
pratt, guilty ; and adjudged them to suffer death 
by being hanged by the neck on board one of 
his Majesty's ships of war. The court acquitted 
Norman, Coleman, M'Intosh, and Byrne ; and 
recommended Peter Heywood, and James Mor- 
rison, to his Majesty's mercy. 
Two days afterwards, the youthful convict 
wrote the following letter to the Rev. Dr. Scott, 
of the Isle of Man, who was a friend of the 
Heywood family: 
Mr. Peter Heywood to Dr. Scott. 
"HECTOR, Sept. ZQth, 1792. 
"HONOURED AND DEAR SIR, On Wednes- 
day, the 12th, the awful trial commenced ; and 
on that day, when in court, I had the pleasure 
of receiving your most kind and parental letter, 
in answer to which I now communicate to you 
the melancholy issue of it, which, as I desired 
my friend Mr. Graham to inform you of imme- 
diately, will be no dreadful news to you. The 
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