This is a very short chapter, but contains a fact for which the Baron's memory ought to be dear to every Englishman, especially those who may hereafter have the misfortune of being made prisoners of war.  
On my return from Gibraltar I travelled by way of France to England. Being a foreigner, this was not attended with any inconvenience to me. I found, in the harbour of Calais, a ship just arrived with a number of English sailors as prisoners of war. I immediately conceived an idea of giving these brave fellows their liberty, which I accomplished¹ as follows:—After forming a pair of large wings, each of them forty yards long, and fourteen wide, and annexing² them to myself, I mounted at break of day, when every creature, even the watch upon deck, was fast asleep. As I hovered³ over the ship I fastened three grappling irons to the tops of the three masts with my

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