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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.^ 



On my awaking in the morning, for I had slept 

 soundly during the night, I found upon inquiry 

 we were sailing up Southampton Water, with a 

 flowing tide. On reaching the quay we were not 

 allowed to land, not having received loratique from 

 the quarantine flag at the Motherbank, more particu- 

 larly as we had a sick person on board, the second 

 mate of the Indiaman, who had been lowered down 

 in his cot into the pilot-boat, in the last stage of 

 consumption ! Poor fellow ! he breathed his last before 

 w^e reached the Point at Portsmouth, where we landed 

 after calling at the ]\Iotherbank, in preference to going 

 back to Southampton. 



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 assembled for that purpose on board 

 the flag-ship at Spithead, 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. 



