70 LETTERS. 
I shall for ever revere with the highest vene- 
ration. 
" I have one request to ask of you, Madam, 
which is, that you will Tbe so obliging as to in- 
quire whether Mrs. Duncan, in Little Hermitage 
Street, has in her possession the clothes, wilich, 
if you remember, I left with her in 1787 ; and 
gave you an order, by which you might at any 
time get them from her ; so that if they are still 
there, you will be so good as to send them down 
here, directing them for me, c On board his Ma- 
jesty's ship Hector, to the care of Serjeant 
William Clayfield, Marines, Portsmouth, or 
elsewhere.' But if you can hear no tidings 
of them or her, you will honour with a few 
lines your much obliged, obedient, and humble 
servant, 
" PETER HEYWOOD." 
He soon afterwards received from his three 
sisters replies to his letter of July 12th. These 
were on one sheet : the first was from his eldest 
sister: 
Miss Heywood to Mr. Peter Heywood. 
"ISLE OF MAN, July 17, 1792. 
" How can I sufficiently thank you, my 
dearest and most beloved boy, for your kind 
attention in remembering me, when I should have 
been the first to welcome you on your arrival in 
England. It is as impossible for you to conceive, 
as for me to express, the pleasure and satisfac- 
tion we felt on receipt of your several letters. 
James had your favour by the same packet 
which brought mine. What infinite obligations 
