CAREER OF CAPTAIN HEY WOOD. 99 
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 Bellerophon. 
In consideration of the King's free pardon, it 
was decided that no incapacity existed for his 
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 considered 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, u when the gallantry and pro- 
priety of his conduct, in his subsequent service, 
are taken into consideration, I shall therefore 
have no difficulty in mentioning him to the com* 
mander-in-chief on the station to which he be- 
longs, as a person from whose promotion, on a pro- 
per 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- 
