90 DEATH OF CAPTAIN HEYWOOD. 
without any solicitation, made him the offer 
of the command, with a Commodore's broad 
pendant, on the lakes in Canada. A considera- 
ble salary was annexed to this important office ; 
but as he had married in 1816, and there was 
no war requiring his active exertions for the 
benefit of his country, Captain Heywood, with 
Lord Melville's permission, declined the prof- 
fered honour ; and he afterward found his chief 
happiness in the bosom of his family. His 
career of activity being now at an end in an 
honourable profession, which had acknowledged 
and appreciated a life of useful labour, his early 
afflictions, the sufferings of body and mind, began 
to tell upon his constitution. It is thought, 
that during the period of his imprisonment, the 
seeds were sown of that disorder, (a complaint 
of the heart,) which terminated his existence. 
Bligh, in his account of the mutineers, which 
was drawn up at Timor, in 1789, says, after 
describing Hey wood's height and person ; "At 
this time he has not done growing." ' Whilst 
his body was ripening into manhood, the iron 
entered into his soul. 
This valuable and excellent officer, having 
reached nearly the top of the list of captains, 
died in London on the 10th February, 1831, 
in his fifty-eighth year. He was buried in a 
vault under Highgate Chapel. 
There is not room in these pages for an 
enumeration of his professional services ; but 
this deficiency may be supplied by the folio wing- 
passage, respecting him : " The misfortunes of 
