odious from speaking
English with a German accent.

"What if he wanted to marry THAT CHARMING GIRL, who lived with Mr.
Weston at Winchelsea? Ha! I see a mystery here.

"What if this scoundrel, going to receive his pay from the English
Admiral, with whom he was in communication at Portsmouth, happened
to go on board the _Royal George_ the day she went down?

"As for George and Joseph Weston, of the Priory, I am sorry to say
they were rascals too. They were tried for robbing the Bristol mail
in 1780; and being acquitted for want of evidence, were tried
immediately after on another indictment for forgery--Joseph was
acquitted, but George was capitally convicted. But this did not
help poor Joseph. Before their trials, they and some others broke
out of Newgate, and Joseph fired at, and wounded, a porter who
tried to stop him, on Snow Hill. For this he was tried and found
guilty on the Black Act, and hung along with his brother.

"Now, if I was an innocent participator in De la Motte's treasons,
and the Westons' forgeries and robberies, what pretty scrapes I
must have been in.

"I married the young woman, whom the brutal Luetterloh would have
had for himself, and lived happy ever after."

And again:--

[Sidenote: DENIS DUVAL'S BOYHOOD]

"My grandfather's name was Duval; he was a barber and perruquier by
trade, and elder of the French Protestant church at Winchelsea. I
was sent to board with his correspondent, a Methodist grocer, at
Rye.

"These two kept a fishing-boat, but the fish they caught was many
and many a barrel of Nantz brandy, which we landed--never mind
where--at a place to us well known. In the innocence of my heart,
I--a child--got leave to go out fishing. We used to go out at night
and meet ships from the French coast.

"I learned to scuttle a marlinspike,
reef a lee-scupper,
keelhaul a bowsprit

as well as the best of them. How well I remember the jabbering of
the Frenchmen the first night as they handed the kegs over to us!
One night we were fired into by his Majesty's revenue cutter
_Lynx_. I asked what those balls were fizzing in the water, etc.

"I wouldn't go on with the smuggling; being converted by Mr.
Wesley, who came to preach to us at Rye--but that is neither here