e tried at Exeter, and transported for seven years
beyond the sea. Thus it is seen that Justice never sleeps; but, sooner
or latter, is sure to overtake the criminal.

"On their return from Virginia, a quarrel about booty arose between
these two, and Macshane killed Wood in a combat that took place between
them near to the town of Bristol; but a waggon coming up, Macshane
was obliged to fly without the ill-gotten wealth: so true is it, that
wickedness never prospers.

"Two days afterwards, Macshane met the coach of Miss Macraw, a Scotch
lady and heiress, going, for lumbago and gout, to the Bath. He at first
would have robbed this lady; but such were his arts, that he induced
her to marry him; and they lived together for seven years in the town of
Eddenboro, in Scotland,--he passing under the name of Colonel Geraldine.
The lady dying, and Macshane having expended all her wealth, he was
obliged to resume his former evil courses, in order to save himself
from starvation; whereupon he robbed a Scotch lord, by name the Lord of
Whistlebinkie, of a mull of snuff; for which crime he was condemned to
the Tolbooth prison at Eddenboro, in Scotland, and whipped many times in
publick.

"These deserved punishments did not at all alter Captain Macshane's
disposition; and on the 17th of February last, he stopped the Bavarian
Envoy's coach on Blackheath, coming from Dover, and robbed his
Excellency and his chaplain; taking from the former his money, watches,
star, a fur-cloak, his sword (a very valuable one); and from the latter
a Romish missal, out of which he was then reading, and a case-bottle."

"The Bavarian Envoy!" said Tom parenthetically. "My master, Beinkleider,
was his Lordship's regimental tailor in Germany, and is now making a
Court suit for him. It will be a matter of a hundred pounds to him, I
warrant."

Doctor Wood resumed his reading. "Hum--hum! A Romish missal, out of
which he was reading, and a case-bottle.

"By means of the famous Mr. Wild, this notorious criminal was brought
to justice, and the case-bottle and missal have been restored to Father
O'Flaherty.

"During his confinement in Newgate, Mr. Macshane could not be brought to
express any contrition for his crimes, except that of having killed his
commanding officer. For this Wood he pretended an excessive sorrow,
and vowed that usquebaugh had been the cause of his death,--indeed, in
prison he partook of no other liquor, and drunk a bottle of it on the
da