DEATH OF CAPTAI1S 7 HEYWOOD. 87 
pendant, on the lakes in Canada. A con- 
siderable salary was annexed to this impor- 
tant office ; but as he had married in 1816, 
and there was no war requiring his active 
exertions for the benefit of his country, 
Captain Heywood, with Lord Melville's per- 
mission, declined the proffered honour ; and 
he afterward found his chief happiness in 
the bosom of his family. His career of ac- 
tivity being now at an end in an honourable 
profession, which had acknowledged and 
appreciated a life of useful labour, his early 
afflictions, the sufferings of body and soul, 
began to tell upon his constitution. It is 
thought, that during the period of his im- 
prisonment, the seeds were sown of that 
disorder, (a complaint of the heart,) which 
terminated his existence. Bligh, in his ac- 
count of the mutineers, which was drawn up 
at Timor, in 1789, says, after describing 
Heywood's height and person ; " At this 
time he has not done growing." 
Whilst his body was ripening into man- 
hood, the iron entered into his soul. 
This valuable and excellent officer died in 
London on the 10th February, 1831, in his 
