On _Thursday_ the 27th of _January_, when the Admiral was sent for on board the _St. George_ to receive his sentence, he declared to some of his friends, that he expected to be reprimanded, and that he possibly might be cashiered; "_because_, said he, _there must have been several controverted points; the Court Martial has been shut up a long time; and almost all the questions proposed by the Court have tended much more to pick out faults in my conduct, than to get at a true state of the circumstances; but I profess, I cannot conceive what they will fix upon_." Soon after he got on board, and was in the cabbin upon the quarter-deck, a member of the _Court Martial_ came out, and told one of his relations, he had the Court's leave to inform him, they had found the Admiral capitally guilty; in order that he might prepare him to receive the sentence. The gentleman went up to him immediately; but was so surprised, he could not tell how to inform him. The Admiral observing his countenance, said to him, "_What is the matter? Have they broke me?_" The gentleman hesitating in his reply, with some confusion of countenance, he added, "_Well, I understand--If nothing but my Blood will satisfy, let them take it_." Immediately after this, he was sent for into Court, where he continued to be the only man that did not appear moved, while the sentence was reading by the Judge-advocate; and went ashore afterwards with the same air and composure that he came on board. A gentleman afterwards endeavoured to give him consolation, by representing to him, that a _sentence without guilt could be no stain_; that it was highly improbable such a sentence would be put in execution, considering the extraordinary circumstances attending it; and that there was the greatest probability of a pardon. He replied, "_What will that signify to me? What satisfaction can I receive from the liberty to crawl a few years longer on the earth, with the infamous load of a Pardon at my back? I despise life upon such terms, and would rather have them take it_." The gentleman then remarked to him, that his pardon must proceed from justice rather than mercy; and must be more an acknowlegment of his innocence, than a forgiveness of guilt: with that distinction he seemed better satisfied, and reconciled to the thought.