Some days after the sentence was passed, he was conveyed on board the _Monarque_, and confined in the captain's cabbin upon the quarter-deck. And as soon as the warrant for his death arrived at _Portsmouth_, all his friends who came to see him, were obliged to leave him before it was dark, and go on shore. An additional number of marine officers and marines were ordered on board that ship. An officer regularly mounted guard, and a great number of centinels were placed, _viz._ two upon the fore-castle, one over each side in the chains, two at the cabbin-door, two upon the poop, two in a boat under the ship's stern, and, for some part of the time, two in the stern-gallery; besides a guard-boat constantly rowing round the ship during the night. These centinels had orders to call aloud to each other, _all is well_, every five minutes throughout the night; by which means, almost as soon as the last centinel had answered, it was time for the first to begin again, and there was a perpetual round of, _all is well_. This circumstance almost totally depriving the Admiral of sleep, because the centinels were mostly close to him where he lay, made him frequently say, "_I did hope for leave to sleep, and apprehend I might be sufficiently guarded and taken care of, without so frequent a repetition of this noisy ceremony close to my ear_." At length the lieutenants of the ship had orders to watch in the great cabbin, relieving each other every four hours, as is customary at sea: so that there was always one of them in the cabbin with him day and night, who delivered up the charge of the Admiral's person to the next officer, keeping a journal, in which was minuted down every person's name who came to him, the time when he came, and the time of his going away; and the order to the centinels for calling out every five minutes, was then omitted. When captain _Montague_ waited upon him, to inform him that the warrant from the Admiralty was come, for putting the sentence passed upon him in execution, he received the news with the same cool composure, that he had received the sentence; without discovering the smallest emotion, depression of spirits, or alteration in his behaviour.