ood, for I never should have
imagined it from his foppish exterior and mincing manners.

We passed our time much more to my satisfaction now than we did
before, escorting the ladies to the theatre and to Ranelagh, and the
freedom with which Captain Levee (and I may say I also) spent his
money, soon gave us a passport to good society. About a fortnight
afterwards, the news arrived of the battle of Culloden, and great
rejoicings were made. My foppish friend remarked to me:--

"Yes, now that the hopes of the Pretender are blasted, and the
Hanoverian succession secured, there are plenty who pretend to
rejoice, and be excessively loyal, who, if the truth were known, ought
to be quartered as traitors."

And I must observe, that the day before the news of the battle, the
old gentleman with snow-white hair was arrested and sent to the Tower,
and he afterwards suffered for high treason.

But letters from the owner, saying that the presence of both of us was
immediately required, broke off this pleasant London party. Indeed,
the bag of gold was running very low, and this, combined with the
owner's letter, occasioned our breaking up three days afterwards. We
took leave of the company at the lodgings, and there was a tender
parting with one or two buxom young women; after which we again
mounted our steeds and set off for Liverpool, where we arrived without
any adventure worthy of narration.

CHAPTER IX.

I am put in command of the Sparrow-Hawk--Am directed to
take four Jacobite Gentlemen secretly on board--Run with
them to Bordeaux--Land them in safety--Dine with the
Governor--Meet with the Widow of the French Gentleman I
had unfortunately killed--Am insulted by her second
Husband--Agree to fight with him--Sail down the River
and prepare for Action.

On our arrival, Captain Levee and I, as soon as we had got rid of the
dust of travel, called upon the owner, who informed us that all the
alterations in Captain Levee's vessel, which was a large lugger of
fourteen guns, and a hundred and twenty men, were complete, and that
my vessel was also ready for me, and manned; but that I had better go
on board and see if any thing else was required, or if there was any
alteration that I would propose. Captain Levee and I immediately went
down to the wharf, alongside of which my vessel lay, that we might
examine her now that she was fitted out as a vessel of war.

She had been a schooner in the Spani