XXIV MEMOIR. 



this would be deserting the security I had 

 obtained by the flag of truce received 

 from General Tonyn. My refusal proved 

 most fortunate. For the night after my 

 committal to prison, a numerous mob as- 

 sembled before the house of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Harleston, (who had insisted upon my 

 staying with them as their guest, whilst I 

 remained in Carolina,) demanding, that I 

 should be surrendered to them. I had 

 looked forward to an outrage of this kind, 

 and had therefore provided myself with 

 arms, being determined never to surrender 

 myself to a mob. A Mr. Simpson, a 

 young English barrister, the son of the 

 late attorney-general for Carolina, who 

 had never done any thing to excite the 

 animosity of the people of that country, 

 was, notwithstanding, upon the same night 

 seized in the house of a lady with whom 

 he was residing, and flung into the har- 

 bour in deep water, where he only escaped 



