This is an order to hold a court, composed of Captain Richard Cuffe, of the Proserpine, president; Captain Sir Frederick Dashwood, Bart., of the Terpsichore, etc., etc.; and Lyon, Winchester, and Spriggs, your first-lieutenant, Sir Frederick, for the trials of Raoul Yvard, a French citizen, on the charge of being a spy, and Ithuel Bolt, seaman, etc., on the charge of being a deserter.

Here is everything in rule, and there are your respective orders, gentlemen." "Bless me, I'd no notion of this!" exclaimed Lyon, who was greatly averse to this part of an officer's duty.

"I'd thought it altogether a trial of speed after a Frenchman, for which purpose the rear-admiral, or my lord, or his grace, whichever it may be right to call him, had seen fit to bring three of his fastest ships together." "I wish it was nothing but the last, Captain Lyon; but we have the disagreeable duty of trying a spy and a deserter before us.

You will return to your ships, gentlemen, and follow us in to an anchorage.

I intend to bring up at a single anchor under the shore at Capri, where we can lie during the calm and get through with our courts.