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in anything in which you think I can serve you. 
Bear your present situation with patience and 
firmness. Adieu ! May God grant that your 
innocence may be made clear, which will make 
happy your family and your affectionate uncle, 
"Tnos. PASLEY." 
Heywood wrote a letter to his sisters, dated 
July 12, 1792, H. M. S. Hector, Portsmouth; 
beginning, " My beloved sisters all." 
In this he expresses his delight at hearing 
from them all, and alludes to a plan which his 
sister Nessy had projected for a visit to him, on 
board the Hector: " Oh, my Nessy, it grieves 
me to think I must be under the necessity, how- 
ever heart-breaking to myself, of desiring you 
will relinquish your most affectionate design of 
coming to see me. It is too long and tedious 
a journey; and even on your arrival, you would 
not be allowed the wished-for happiness, both to 
you and myself, of seeing, much less convers- 
ing w r ith your unfortunate brother. The rules 
of the service are so strict, that prisoners are 
not permitted to have any communication with 
female relations." 
Two days after writing this letter, he addressed 
the following communication to Mrs. Bligh, who 
was then in London, Captain Bligh having sailed 
for Otaheite, on his second commission for bread- 
fruit plants. 
The reader will observe with interest the poor 
youth's allusion to his clothes, which he had left 
in London nearly five years before, and which 
he seems to have wanted in time for his trial. 
