The messenger, who was much surprised by the application told him, that he could not upon such a representation take him into custody, unless he had an order from the duke of Portland's office to that effect, and that in order to obtain it, it would be proper for him to write his name, that it might be compared with his hand writing in the office of the secretary at war, which he offered to carry over with him. Governor W---- still pressed him to take him into custody, the messenger more strongly declined it, by informing him that he was the bearer of dispatches of great importance to his court, that he must immediately cross the Channel, and should hazard a passage, although the weather looked lowering, in an open boat, as no packets had arrived, and that consequently it was altogether impossible to take him over, but again requested him to write his name, for the purpose already mentioned; the governor consented, pens and paper were brought, but the hand of the murderer shook so dreadfully, that he could _not write it_, and in an agony of mind, bordering upon frenzy, he rushed out of the room, and immediately left the town. The messenger entered the boat, and set sail; a storm quickly followed, _the boat sunk in sight of the pier_, and all on board but one of the watermen, perished!!! The great disposer of human destiny, in vindication of his eternal justice, rescued the life of this infatuated delinquent from the waves, and from a sudden death, to resign him to the public and merited doom of the laws. CHAPTER VII. _Filial Piety.--St. Catharine's Mount.--Madame Phillope.--General Ruffin's Trumpet.--Generosity.--Love Infectious.--Masons and Gardeners._