It could not affect his purpose; but the sense of right-doing, which sustained him in that, did not make his road otherwise easier.

It is, indeed, especially to be noticed that there was not in him that hard, unyielding fibre, upon which care, or neglect, or anxiety, makes little impression.

He was, on the contrary, extremely sympathetic, even emotional; and although insensible to bodily fear, he was by no means so to censure, or to risk of other misfortune.

To this susceptibility to worry, strong witness is borne by an expression of his, used at the very time of which we are now writing.

One of his friends--Captain Pole of the Navy--had detained and sent in a neutral vessel for breach of belligerent rights.