I did not see them come alongside.

I desired Lieutenant Larkin to bring them down to the cabin.
I asked them what news; Peter Heywood, I think, said he supposed I had heard of the affair of the _Bounty_.

I don't recollect all the conversation that passed between us; he sometimes interrupted me by asking for Mr.Hayward, the lieutenant of the _Pandora_, whether he was on board or not--he had heard that he was; at last I acknowledged that he was, and I desired him to come out of my state-room, where I had desired him to go into, as he happened to be with me at the time.
Lieutenant Hayward treated him with a sort of contemptuous look, and began to enter into conversation with him respecting the _Bounty_, but I called the sentinel in to take them into custody, and ordered Lieutenant Hayward to desist, and I ordered them to be put into irons; some words passed, and Peter Heywood said he should be able to vindicate his conduct.
_Lieutenant Corner_, of the _Pandora_, merely states his being sent to bring the rest of the mutineers on board, who were at some distance from Matavai Bay.
The prisoners being called on for their defence, the witnesses were again separately called and examined on the part of the prisoners.
_Mr.Fryer_, the master, called in and examined by Mr.Heywood.--'If you had been permitted, would you have stayed in the ship in preference to going into the boat ?' _Witness_--'Yes.' _Prisoner_--'Had you stayed in the ship in expectation of retaking her, was my conduct such, from the first moment you knew me to this, as would have induced you to intrust me with your design; and do you believe I would have favoured it, and given you all the assistance in my power ?' _Witness_--'I believe he would: I should not have hesitated a moment in asking of him when I had had an opportunity of opening my mind to him.' The same question being put to _Mr.Cole_, the boatswain, _Mr.
Peckover_, the gunner, and _Mr.Purcell_, the carpenter, they all answered in the affirmative.
Mr.Heywood asked, 'What was my general conduct, temper, and disposition on board the ship ?' _Witness_--'Beloved by everybody, to the best of my recollection.' To the same question, _Mr.Cole_ answers, 'Always a very good character.' _Mr.Peckover_--'The most amiable, and deserving of every one's esteem.' _Mr.Purcell_--'In every respect becoming the character of a gentleman, and such as merited the esteem of everybody.' _Mr.Cole_ being examined, gave his testimony,--that he never saw Mr.
Heywood armed; that he did not consider him of the mutineers' party; that he saw nothing of levity or apparent merriment in his conduct; that when he was below with Stewart, he heard Churchill call out, 'Keep them below,' and that he believes Heywood was one of the persons meant--has no doubt of it at all; that Bligh could not have spoken to him, when on the booms, loud enough to be heard; that Hayward was alarmed, and Hallet alarmed; that he by no means considers Heywood or Morrison as mutineers.
_Mr.Purcell_ being examined, states,--that, respecting the cutlass on which he saw Mr.Heywood's hand resting, he does not consider him as being an armed man; that he never thought him as of the mutineers' party; that he never heard Captain Bligh speak to him; that he thinks, from his situation, he could not have heard him; that he was by no means guilty of levity or apparent merriment; that he heard the master-at-arms call out to keep them below; that Mr.Hallet appeared to him to be very much confused; and that Mr.Hayward likewise appeared to be very much confused.
_The Court_ asked,--'As you say you did not look upon the prisoner as a person armed, to what did you allude when you exclaimed, "Good God, Peter, what do you do with that ?"' _Witness_--'I look upon it as an accidental thing.' _Captain Edwards_, being asked by Heywood--'Did I surrender myself to you upon the arrival of the _Pandora_ at Otaheite ?' _Witness_--'Not to me, to the Lieutenant.

I apprehend he put himself in my power.

I always understood he came voluntarily; our boats were not in the water.' _Prisoner_--'Did I give you such information respecting myself and the _Bounty_ as afterwards proved true ?' _Witness_--'He gave me some information respecting the people on the island, that corroborated with Coleman's.