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management of the manufactory to the eldest brother, and estab- 

 lished at Liverpool the firm of Ormerod Heyworth & Co. 



From Rio the firm soon extended itself, establishing branches 

 at Bahia, Pernambuco, Buenos Ayres, Lima, Monte Video, 

 Valparaiso, and Hamburgh. The plan adopted by the Hey- 

 worths was to raise to the position of Junior partners such 

 of their young men as showed distinguished ability, and to give 

 them the management of branches ; the several branches worked 

 well together. 



With the exception of a short visit to England, Lawrence Hey- 

 worth remained for seven years in South America. In 181 2 he 

 sailed again on his return to Rio-de-Janeiro, in the new ship 

 Wellwood, which was wrecked on the third day after setting sail 

 from Liverpool on a sand-bank off Wexford on the Irish coast ; 

 and if Mr. Heyworth (as the Captain's energies were paralysed) 

 had not taken in charge the management, and given directions to 

 the sailors about getting the boat afloat at the critical moment 

 when the vessel was breaking up, the passengers and crew would 

 have all perished. Escaping from the broken masts and )4ards of 

 the sinking ship in the open boat, with a terrible sea running, 

 which every moment threatened to swamp them, they safely landed 

 on the coast of Ireland ; Mr Heyworth without any clothing except 

 his shirt. 



In 1815 Sir James Chamberlain went out to Rio as Consul- 

 General, with a patent from George IV., allowing him to levy a 

 tax of half per cent, upon all English goods imported to Rio, 

 which would have brought him some six or seven thousand 

 pounds a-year. This imposition Mr. Heyworth at once resisted, 

 urging its injustice towards British Merchants, and the 

 impossibility of their being legally compelled to pay it. The 

 resistance brought him some persecution from the Consul, but he 

 was successful in preventing the impost ; and the whole matter is 

 remembered in Rio with scarcely less regard than Hampden's 

 resistance of ship money is in this country. In 1816 Mr. 



