64 PETER HEYWOOD AND HIS FAMILY. 
te God moves in a mysterious way, 
His wonders to perform. 
He plants his footstep in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm." 
Among the prisoners cast about upon these 
dangerous seas, after the wreck of the Pandora, 
was a youth, who was reserved for still heavier 
trials, and with whose life and character the 
reader will have an opportunity of becoming 
more fully acquainted. 
Peter Hey wood, son of Peter John Heywood, 
Esq., and grandson of Mr. Heywood, Chief Jus- 
tice of the Isle of Man, was born in June 1773. 
He had left a happy home in the Isle of Man, 
in August 1787, when only fourteen years old, 
for his first voyage in the Bounty ', and was but 
a youth of between fifteen and sixteen on the 
occasion of the mutiny. He had now been away 
from his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, for 
five years. About the latter end of March 1790, 
his mother heard with grief and consternation of 
the mutiny which had taken place on board the 
Bounty. Her husband had died two months 
previous, and had thus been spared a painful 
domestic trial. The dreadful intelligence which 
reached her was aggravated by many malignant 
additions to the facts. She had been informed, 
by one who came to break it to her, that her 
son, as a ringleader of the mutiny, had gone 
armed into Bligh's cabin ! She could not, indeed, 
bring herself to believe the account ; but, though 
she knew her dear boy's good qualities, she feared 
the worst results from his having been mixed up 
in such a transaction. 
