After long legal proceedings, extending over five years, she was condemned, and proved to be a very valuable prize to the captors.

"Our friend Charles Pole," he writes, "has been fortunate in his trial; but the lottery is so very much against an officer, that never will I knowingly involve myself in a doubtful cause.

Prize-money is doubtless very acceptable; but my mind would have suffered so much, that no pecuniary compensation, at so late a period, would have made me amends." Contrasting this utterance with the resolution shown by him at this time, in fighting what he considered the cause of his country in the West Indies, it can be seen how much stronger with him was the influence of duty than that exercised by any considerations of merely material advantage.

In the one he could find support; in the other not.

But in neither case was he insensible to care, nor could he escape the physical consequences of anxiety upon a delicate frame and nervous organization.