: CHAPTER III. 
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE MUTINY 
CHURCHILL AND THOMPSON WRECK OF THE PANDORA 
PETER HEYWOOD AND HIS FAMILY LETTERS FROM NESSY 
HEYWOOD AND OTHERS TRIAL OF THE MUTINEERS THE 
KING'S PARDON HONOURABLE CAREER- OF CAPTAIN HEY- 
WOOD HIS DEATH LINES BY ONE OF HIS CREW. 
To take up the thread of the history, the reader 
will now return to the period of Bligh's arrival 
in England, after his preservation from the 
mutineers, and the terrors of the deep. On his 
return home in 1790, he published an interesting 
narrative of the mutiny on board the Bounty, 
and the hardships which he had endured until his 
landing at Timor. This excited much sympathy 
in his favour, and no little indignation against 
the mutineers. 
As soon as the English government became 
acquainted with the criminal act of mutiny and 
piracy, of which Christian and his party had 
been guilty, they sent out the Pandora frigate, 
under Captain Edward Edwards, with orders to 
visit the Society and Friendly Islands, and use 
.every endeavour to seize and bring home the 
offenders. On the arrival of that officer at 
Matavai Bay, off Otaheite, on the 23d of March, 
1791, just eighteen months after the Bounty's 
