84 LETTERS. 
Two days afterwards, the youthful convict 
wrote the following letter to the Rev. Dr. Scott, 
of the Isle of Man, who was a friend of the 
Hey wood family : — 
Mr. Peter Heywood to Dr. Scott. 
" Hector, Sept. 20th, 1792. 
" Honoured and dear Sir, — On Wednes- 
day, the 12th, the awful trial commenced ; and 
on that day, when in court, I had the pleasure 
of receiving your most kind and parental letter, 
in answer to which I now communicate to you 
the melancholy issue of it, which, as I desired, 
my friend Mr. Graham to inform you of imme- 
diately, will be no dreadful news to you. The 
morning lours, and all my hope of worldly joy 
is fled far from me. On Tuesday morning, the 
18th inst., the dreadful sentence of Death was 
pronounced upon me ; to which (being the just 
decree of that Divine Providence who first gave 
me breath) I bow my devoted head, with that 
fortitude, cheerfulness, and resignation which is 
the duty of every member of the Church of our 
blessed Saviour and Eedeemer Christ Jesus. To 
Him alone I now look up for succour, in full 
hope, that perhaps a few days more will open to 
the view of my astonished and fearful soul His 
kingdom of eternal and incomprehensible bliss y 
prepared only for the righteous of heart. 
" I have not been found guilty of the slightest 
act of the detestable crime of mutiny, but am 
doomed to die for not being active in my endea- 
vour to suppress it. Could the evidences who 
appeared in the court-martial be tried, they 
