The President. Have you any application to make on behalf of the prisoner?
Mr. Lawless said he had no application to make.
The President. Under these circumstances the trial must proceed without counsel.
Colonel, the Hon. S.J.G. Calthorpe, 5th Dragoon Guards, was examined to prove that the prisoner had not given him notice of an intended mutiny in her Majesty's forces in Ireland.
Sergeant Alsopp and Sergeant Miller of the 5th Dragoon Guards were examined to prove the desertion of the prisoner, and the making away with regimental necessaries.
The prisoner was placed on his defense, and stated that his counsel having left him, he did not know what to do; he could get no other counsel now, and felt inclined to throw himself on the mercy of the Court.
The president said he would receive his defense in the morning, and adjourned the further hearing of the case in order to give the prisoner time to prepare it.
The trial of Martin Hogan was resumed.
Mr. Lawless was present, and handed in a written statement to the president.