66 ARRIVAL OF PETER HEYWOOD. 
sitting upon the arms-chest in the main hatch- 
way, with a drawn cutlass in his hand." Being 
confused with the scene presented on deck, and 
having heard two different accounts of the object 
and intent of the chief actors in this deed of 
violence, Heywood remained awhile a silent 
spectator of all that was passing, until, with the 
best judgment which his youth and inexperience 
could supply on such an emergency, he decided 
to remain in the ship. Afterwards, on his trial, 
he expressed a hope, that he might be reckoned 
among the friends whom Bligh acknowledged 
he had left on board the Bounty. " Indeed," 
said Heywood, " from his attention to, and very 
kind treatment of me, I should have been a 
monster of depravity to have betrayed him." 
Young Hey wood's arrival, as a prisoner in 
chains, in England on the 19th of June, 1792, 
was in itself a relief to his distressed mother and 
friends. He had been conveyed from Batavia 
to the Cape of Good Hope in a Dutch ship, in 
which he had endured much hardship, and had 
been thence removed into the Gorgon, where he 
was treated with kindness, and allowed to walk 
upon deck several hours a day. Two days after 
his return he was transferred to the Hector, a 74- 
.gun ship, commanded by Captain Montagu, which 
was, for upwards of eighteen weeks, his prison. 
Many letters passed between Heywood and 
his family after his return. Mrs. Heywood, his 
widow, has in her possession some affecting com- 
munications from himself, his sisters, and others 
interested in his case. That lady, who cherishes 
her late husband's memory with reverence and 
