88 DEATH OF NESSY HEYWOOD. 
In the manuscript collection, from which the 
above letters and verses have been extracted, is 
a memorandum by Mrs. Heywood, (Peter's 
mother,) in her own handwriting, dated, Douglas, 
Isle of Man, shortly after Nessy's death. " My 
dearest Nessy was seized, while on a visit at 
Major Yorke's, at Bishop's Grove, near Tun- 
bridge Wells, with a violent cold; and, not 
taking proper care of herself, it soon turned to 
inflammation on her lungs, which carried her off 
at Hastings, to which place she was taken 011 
the 5th of September, to try if the change of air, 
and being near the sea, would recover her. But, 
alas ! it was too late for her to receive the 
wished -for benefit, and she died there on the 
25th of the same month, 1793, and has left her 
only surviving parent a disconsolate mother, to 
lament, while ever she lives, with the most 
sincere affliction, the irreparable loss of her most 
valuable, affectionate, darling daughter." 
Having, on his release, visited his family and 
friends, Mr. Heywood, as soon as his health was 
completely restored, re-entered the navy, by the 
desire of Captain Pasley, (afterwards Sir Thomas 
Pasley, Bart.), and on the express recommenda- 
tion of Lord Hood, who had presided at his 
court-martial. Indeed, Lord Hood offered to 
take him under his own immediate patronage ; 
but this was declined with thanks by Captain 
Pasley, who, on the 17th May, 1793, received 
him under his own command, into the Bellero- 
phon. 
In consideration of the King's free pardon, it 
was decided that no incapacity existed for his 
