The artist I discovered myself--a young man named Charles Raoul.

He comes from the South, a little below Avignon, and of good family--in some respects." The General paused and took snuff.

"He enlisted at eighteen and has seen service; he tells me he was wounded at Austerlitz.

Unhappily he was shipped, about two years ago, on board the _Thetis_ frigate, with a detachment and stores for Martinique.

The _Thetis_ had scarcely left L'Orient before she fell in with one of your frigates, whose name escapes me; and here he is in Axcester.