"To remove suspicion, he not only received letters addressed to him under this assumed name, but he continually franked letters by that name. Now, _that being a capital offence_, being not only a forgery, but (as a forgery on the Post-office) sure to be prosecuted, nobody presumed to question his pretensions any longer; and henceforward he went to all places with the consideration due to an earl's brother."--P. 196. The marriage with Mary Robinson, and the way in which they passed the honeymoon, are described: "They continued to move backwards and forwards, until at length, _with the startling of a thunderclap to the_ {27} _affrighted mountaineers_, the bubble burst; officers of justice appeared, _the stranger was easily intercepted from flight_, and, _upon a capital charge_, he was _borne away to Carlisle_. At the ensuing assizes he was _tried for forgery on the prosecution of the Post-office_, found guilty, left for execution, and executed accordingly."--P. 199. "One common scaffold confounds the most flinty hearts and the tenderest. However, it was in some measure the heartless part of Hatfield's conduct which drew upon him his ruin; for _the Cumberland jury_, as I have been told, _declared their unwillingness to hang him for having forged a frank_; and both they, and _those who refused to aid his escape when first apprehended_, were reconciled to this harshness entirely by what they heard of his conduct _to their injured young fellow-countrywoman_."--P. 201. Hatfield was not "easily intercepted from flight." Sir Frederick Vane granted a warrant to apprehend him on the charge of forcing franks. Hatfield ordered dinner at the Queen's Head, Keswick, to be ready at three; took a boat, and did not return. This was on October 6: he was married to Mary on the 2nd. In November he was apprehended near Brecknock, in Wales: so those who refused to aid his escape, if such there were, were not "reconciled to the hardship by what they heard of his conduct to their young fellow-countrywoman." The "startling of the thunderclap" was preceded by an ordinary proclamation, describing the offender, and offering a reward of 50l. for his apprehension. He was not "hurried away to Carlisle," but deliberately taken to London on December 12; examined at Bow Street, remanded three times, and finally committed; and sent to Carlisle, where he was tried on August 15, 1803. Three indictments were preferred against him: the first for forging a bill of exchange for 20l., drawn by Alexander Augustus Hope on John Crump, payable to George Wood; the second for a similar bill for 30l.; and the third for counterfeiting Colonel Hope's handwriting to defraud the Post-office.