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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 
September, 1792. Vice- Admiral Lord Hood was 
the President. The officers who sat at the trial 
were Captains Sir A. S. Hammond, Bart., John 
Colpoys, Sir Geo. Montagu, Sir Koger Curtis, 
John Bazeley, Sir Andrew S. Douglas, John 
T, Duckworth, John N. Inglefield, John Knight, 
Albemarle Bertie, E. 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 Mus- 
pratt, Charles Norman, Joseph Coleman, Thomas 
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'In- 
tosh, and Byrne ; and recommended Peter 
Heywood and James Morrison to his Majesty's 
mercv. 
