98 DEATH OF NESSY HEYWOOD. 
after her beloved brother's liberation, whilst 
still in her youthful days, she was called away 
from taking a part in this busy, anxious world. 
It no longer remained for her to " rejoice with 
them that do rejoice, and weep with them that 
weep." Active and alert no more in the service 
of those she loved, she was to seek her occu- 
pation and comfort in her sick chamber; and 
there is reason to believe, that, trusting in her 
Redeemer's merits, and daily preparing for eter- 
nity, she found consolation in true religion, 
without which the ties of affection must, she 
knew, be utterly dissolved, the enjoyment de- 
rived from it pass away for ever. 
In the manuscript collection, from which the 
above letters and verses have been extracted, 
is a memorandum by Mrs. Heywood (Peter's 
mother) in her own handwriting, dated, Douglas, 
Isle of Man, shortly after Nessy's death. " My 
dearest Nessy was seized, while on a visit at 
Major Yorke's, at Bishop's Grove, near Tun- 
oridge Wells, with a violent cold ; and, not 
taking proper care of herself, it soon turned to 
inflammation on her lungs, which carried her off 
at Hastings, to which place she was taken on 
the 5th of September, to try if the change of 
air, and being near the sea, would recover her. 
But, alas ! it was too late for her to receive the, 
wished-for benefit, and she died there on the 
25th of the same month, 1793, and has left her 
only surviving parent a disconsolate mother, to 
lament, while ever she lives, with the most 
sincere affliction, the irreparable loss of her most 
valuable, affectionate, darling daughter." 
