60 LETTEES. 
Mr. Fryer and Cole. Rest assured of every 
exertion in my power to serve you. Let me 
hear from you, and be particular in anything 
in which you think I can serve you. Bear 
your present situation with patience and 
firmness. Adieu ! May God grant that your 
innocence may be made clear, which will 
make happy your family and your affectionate 
uncle, 
"Tnos. PASLEY." 
Heywood wrote a letter to his sisters, dated 
July 12, 1792, H.M. S. Hector, Portsmouth; 
beginning, " My beloved sisters all." 
In this he expresses his delight at hearing 
from them all, and alludes to a plan which 
his sister Nessy had projected for a visit 
to him, on board the Hector: "Oh, my 
Nessy, it grieves me to think I must be 
under the necessity, however heart-breaking 
to myself, of desiring you will relinquish 
your most affectionate design of coming to 
see me. It is too long and tedious a journey ; 
and even on your arrival, you would not be 
allowed the wished-for happiness, both to 
you and myself, of seeing, much less con- 
