CAREER OF CAPTAIN HEYWOOD. 89 
thus again fully undertaking the duties of his 
profession. In January, 1797, after he had 
done his duty in several actions with the French 
fleet, Earl Spencer, who had attentively con- 
sidered the several points connected with the 
court-martial of 1792, wrote to Sir Thomas 
Pasley, to say that those circumstances ought 
not to be allowed to stand in the way of Mr. 
Hey wood's further progress in his profession ; 
" more especially," said his lordship, " when the 
gallantry and propriety of his conduct, in his 
subsequent service, are taken into consideration. 
I shall therefore have no difficulty in mentioning 
him to the commander-in-chief on the station to 
which he belongs, as a person from whose 
promotion, on a proper opportunity, I shall 
derive much satisfaction." 
He became a post-captain in 1803, and, after 
a career of important and responsible service, 
including two diplomatic missions to South 
America, was, on the 29th July, 1813, appointed 
to the command of the Montagu, of 74 guns, in 
which he served in the North Sea, and after- 
wards in the Mediterranean, under the command 
of Lord Exmouth. 
On Captain Heywood's return, the Montagu 
was paid off at Chatham, on the 16th July, 
1816; and he came ashore, after having been 
actively employed at sea twenty-seven years, 
six months, one week, and five days, out of a 
service in the navy of twenty-nine years, seven 
months, and one day. 
On the 18th May, 1818, Lord Melville, 
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