uaded of his patient's lunacy as
to reject his advice, which he made what haste he could to follow, when
an unexpected accident intervened.

That this may be properly introduced, we must return to the knight's
brace of trusty friends, Captain Crowe and lawyer Clarke, whom we left in
sorrowful deliberation upon the fate of their patron. Clarke's genius
being rather more fruitful in resources than that of the seaman, he
suggested an advertisement, which was accordingly inserted in the daily
papers; importing that, "Whereas a gentleman of considerable rank and
fortune had suddenly disappeared, on such a night, from his house near
Golden Square, in consequence of a letter delivered to him by a porter;
and there is great reason to believe some violence hath been offered to
his life; any person capable of giving such information as may tend to
clear up this dark transaction, shall, by applying to Mr. Thomas Clarke,
attorney, at his lodgings in Upper Brook Street, receive proper security
for the reward of one hundred guineas, to be paid to him upon his making
the discovery required."

The porter who delivered the letter appeared accordingly, but could give
no other information, except that it was put into his hand with a
shilling, by a man muffled up in a greatcoat, who stopped him for the
purpose, in his passing through Queen Street. It was necessary that the
advertisement should produce an effect upon another person, who was no
other than the hackney-coachman who drove our hero to the place of his
imprisonment. This fellow had been enjoined secrecy; and, indeed, bribed
to hold his tongue, by a considerable gratification, which, it was
supposed, would have been effectual, as the man was a master coachman in
good circumstances, and well known to the keeper of the madhouse, by whom
he had been employed on former occasions of the same nature. Perhaps his
fidelity to his employer, reinforced by the hope of many future jobs of
that kind, might have been proof against the offer of fifty pounds; but
double that sum was a temptation he could not resist. He no sooner read
the intimation in the Daily Advertiser, over his morning's pot at an
alehouse, than he entered into consultation with his own thoughts; and,
having no reason to doubt that this was the very fare he had conveyed, he
resolved to earn the reward, and abstain from all such adventures in time
coming. He had the precaution, however, to take an attorney along with
hi