They have been most rigorously and closely confined since taken, and will continue so, no doubt, till Bligh's arrival.

You have no chance of seeing him, for no bail can be offered.

Your intelligence of his swimming off on the _Pandoras_ arrival is not founded; a man of the name of Coleman swam off ere she anchored--your brother and Mr.
Stewart the next day; this last youth, when the _Pandora_ was lost, refused to allow his irons to be taken off to save his life.
'I cannot conceal it from you, my dearest Nessy, neither is it proper I should--your brother appears, by all accounts, to be the greatest culprit of all, Christian alone excepted.

Every exertion, you may rest assured, I shall use to save his life, but on trial I have no hope of his not being condemned.

Three of the ten who are expected are mentioned, in Bligh's narrative, as men detained against their inclination.