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the exertions of others, to take up, 

 cultivate, and extend the knowledge of 

 those branches of science that have 

 served to raise and to adorn this noble 

 profession. He has long since paid the 

 debt of nature, dying at home in peace 

 with his family, and has left behind 

 him a name that ought to be recorded 

 in the annals of the British Navy in 

 letters of gold. For myself, I have ever 

 cherished the memory of this highly 

 gifted man, with proud delight ; and 

 looked upon the limited, though I may say 

 familiar intercourse that passed between 

 us, as the greatest honour I have enjoyed 

 during my long and varied existence.* 



* Captain Peter Heywood. He was accused as one of 

 the mutineers of the "Bounty," brought to England, 

 tried (with others of the crew) by a court-martial, as- 

 sembled for that purpose on board the flag-ship at Spit- 

 head, and sentenced to death. For a full and correct 

 account of which, together with his correspondence on 

 that occasion, his defence, pardon, reinstatement, and 

 continued and brilliant career in the service of his 

 country, see "Memoirs of Peter Heywood," as compiled 

 and published after his decease, by a near relative. 



