CHAPTER II. 
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE MUTINY 
CHURCHILL AND THOMPSON WRECK OF THE PANDORA 
PETER HEYWOOD AND HIS FAMILY LETTERS FROM NESSY 
HEYWOOD AND OTHERS TRIAL OF THE MUTINEERS THE 
KING'S PARDON HONOURABLE CAREER OF CAPTAIN HEY- 
WOOD HIS DEATH LINES BY ONE OF HIS CREW. 
LIEUTENANT BLIGH, on his return to England 
in 1790, published an interesting narrative of 
the mutiny, and the hardships which he had 
endured until his landing at Timor. This 
excited much sympathy in his favour, and no 
little indignation against the mutineers. 
As soon as the English government were 
made acquainted with the atrocious act 
of mutiny and piracy, of which Christian 
and his party had been guilty, they sent 
out the Pandora frigate, under Captain Ed- 
ward Edwards, with orders to visit the 
Society and Friendly Islands, and use every 
endeavour to seize and bring home the of- 
fenders. On the arrival of that officer at Ma- 
tavai Bay, off Otaheite, on the 23d of March 
