THE KING PARDONS HEYWOOD. 93 
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest ; 
It blesses him that gives and him that takes ; 
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown. 
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 
The attribute to awe and majesty, 
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings : 
But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; 
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 
It is an attribute to God himself, 
And earthly power doth then show likest God's 
When mercy seasons justice." 
On the 24th of October, 1792, the royal 
warrant was despatched, granting a free pardon 
to Heywood and Morrison, with a respite for 
Muspratt. At the same time was sent a warrant 
for executing Burkitt, Ellison, and Millward. 
Muspratt was afterwards pardoned. 
Millward, and Muspratt, with Churchill, were 
the men who had been deserters at Otaheite, and 
who had been forgiven by Bligh for that offence. 
Burkitt had been forward in the mutiny on board 
the Bounty. Ellison, who was a mere boy on the 
occasion of that act of violence, is thus described 
in the list forwarded from Batavia in October, 
1 789 : " Thomas Ellison, able seaman, aged 17 
years, five feet three inches high, fair complexion, 
dark hair, strong made ; has got his name tattooed 
on his right arm, and dated October 25, 1788." 
Morrison, before his connexion with the 
Bounty, had served in the navy as a midship- 
man ; and, after his pardon, had been appointed 
gunner of the Blenheim, in which he perished 
with Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge. In a 
violent gale on the 1st of February, 1807, that 
vessel foundered and was lost, with all the 
