CHAPTER III. 
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE MUTINY— 
TOUBOUI — 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 HEYWOOD — HIS DEATH — LINES BY ONE OF HIS 
CREW. 
Resuming the thread of the history, the reader 
will now return to the period of Bligh's arrival 
in England, after his preservation from the vio- 
lence of the mutineers, and the terrors of the 
deep. On his return home in 1790, he published 
an interesting narrative of the mutiny on board 
the Bounty, and the hardships which he had 
endured until his landing at Timor. This ex- 
cited much sympathy in his favour, and no little 
indignation against the mutineers. 
As soon as the English government became 
acquainted with the criminal act of mutiny and 
piracy, of which Christian and his party had 
been guilty, they sent out the Pandora frigate, 
under Captain Edward Edwards, with orders to 
visit the Society and Friendly Islands, and use 
every endeavour to seize and bring home the 
offenders. 
On the arrival of that officer at Matavai 
Bay, off Otaheite, on the 23d of March, 1791, 
three of the men, who had remained there nearly 
