etake themselves to close quarters, while our
hero accompanied the affrighted Cadwallader to the gate, and exhibited
to the warden a formal complaint against the rioters, upon whom he
retorted the charge of lunacy, which was supported by the evidence of
twenty persons, who had been eye-witnesses of the outrage committed
against the old gentleman. The governor, in consequence of this
information, sent a message to Mr. Hatchway, warning him to move
his lodging next day, on pain of being expelled. The lieutenant
contumaciously refusing to comply with this intimation, was in the
morning, while he amused himself in walking upon the Bare, suddenly
surrounded by the constables of the court, who took him and his adherent
prisoners, before they were aware, and delivered them into the hands of
the turnkeys, by whom they were immediately dismissed, and their baggage
conveyed to the side of the ditch.

This expulsion was not performed without an obstinate opposition on the
part of the delinquents, who, had they not been surprised, would have
set the whole Fleet at defiance, and, in all probability, have acted
divers tragedies, before they could have been overpowered. Things
being circumstanced as they were, the lieutenant did not part with his
conductor without tweaking his nose, by way of farewell; and Pipes,
in imitation of such a laudable example, communicated a token of
remembrance, in an application to the sole eye of his attendant, who,
scorning to be outdone in this kind of courtesy, returned the compliment
with such good-will, that Tom's organ performed the office of a
multiplying-glass. These were mutual hints for stripping, and,
accordingly, each was naked from the waist upwards in a trice. A ring
of butchers from the market was immediately formed; a couple of the
reverend flamens, who, in morning gowns, ply for marriages in that
quarter of the town, constituted themselves seconds and umpires of the
approaching contest, and the battle began without further preparation.
The combatants were, in point of strength and agility, pretty equally
matched; but the jailor had been regularly trained in the art of
bruising: he had more than once signalized himself in public, by his
prowess and skill in this exercise, and lost one eye upon the stage in
the course of his exploits. This was a misfortune of which Pipes did not
fail to take the advantage. He had already sustained several hard knocks
upon his temples and jaws, and found it