Resolution, severity, subtlety, were required for it; and these were qualities which Jonathan possessed in an extraordinary degree.

The danger or difficulty of an exploit never appalled him.

What his head conceived his hand executed.

Professing to stand between the robber and the robbed, he himself plundered both.

He it was who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows.