100 CAREER OF CAPTAIN HEYWOOD. 
wards in the Mediterranean, under the command 
of Lord Exmouth. 
On Captain Hey wood's return, the Montagu 
was paid off at Chatham, on the 16th July, 1816; 
and he came ashore, after having been actively 
employed at sea twenty-seven years, six months, 
one week, and five days, out of a service in the 
navy of twenty-nine years, seven months, and 
one day. 
On the 18th May, 1818, Lord Melville, with- 
out any solicitation, made him the offer of the 
command, with a Commodore's broad pendant, 
on the lakes in Canada. A considerable salary 
was annexed to this important office ; but as he 
had married in 1816, and there was no war 
requiring his active exertions for the benefit of his 
country, Captain Hey wood, with Lord Melville's 
permission, declined the proffered honour; and 
he afterwards found his chief happiness in the 
bosom of his family.- His career of activity 
being now at an end in an honourable profes- 
sion, which had acknowledged and appreciated 
a life of useful labour, his early afflictions, the 
sufferings of body and mind, began to tell upon 
his constitution. It is thought, that during the 
period of his imprisonment, the seeds were sown 
of the lingering and painful disorder (an enlarge- 
ment of the heart) which terminated his existence. 
In the description which was drawn up at 
Timor, in 1789, he was represented as "a mid- 
shipman, aged seventeen years, five feet seven 
inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, well 
proportioned, very much tattooed. At this time 
he has not done growing ; and he speaks with 
the Manks, or Isle of Man. accent/' 
