DEATH OF CAPTAIN HEYWOOD. 101 
He had not done growing. Whilst his body 
ripened into manhood, the iron entered into his 
soul. 
This valuable and excellent officer, having 
reached nearly the top of the list of captains, 
and being near the rank of Admiral, died in 
London on the 10th February, 1831, in his fifty- 
eighth year. He was buried in a vault under 
Highgate Chapel. 
There is not room in these pages for an 
enumeration of his professional services ^ but 
this deficiency may be supplied by the following 
passage respecting him in Marshall's Naval 
Biography: — "The misfortunes of his youth 
proved highly beneficial to him. The greater 
part of those distinguished officers who had sat 
as members of the court-martial, justly consi- 
dering him much more unfortunate than criminal, 
extended their patronage to him immediately 
after his release ; and through their good offices, 
and his own meritorious behaviour, he was 
subsequently advanced, step by step, to the rank 
he at present holds. The duties # which have 
fallen to his share he has ever performed with 
a zeal not inferior to that of any other officer in 
the service. The young men who have had the 
honour of serving under him, many of whom 
now enjoy commissions, will readily and grate- 
fully acknowledge, that, both by precept and 
his own example, he invariably endeavoured to 
form their characters, as men and officers, in the 
solid principles of religion and virtue. We do 
not hesitate to say, that his king and country 
never had a more faithful servant, nor the naval 
service a more worthy and respectable member/ 
