Contempt is the best mode of treating such a miscreant." In spite, however, of contempt, the impudence of this Frenchman half angered him.

He said to his brother: "You will have seen Latouche's letter; how he chased me and how I ran.

I keep it; and if I take him, by God he shall eat it." Nelson, who used to say, that in sea affairs nothing is impossible, and nothing improbable, feared the more that this Frenchman might get out and elude his vigilance; because he was so especially desirous of catching him, and administering to him his own lying letter in a sandwich.

M.Latouche, however, escaped him in another way.

He died, according to the French papers, in consequence of walking so often up to the signal-post upon Sepet, to watch the British fleet.