He  thought  that  money  ought  to  be  donated  for  the
purpose  of  equipping  soldiers  and  sailors  to  man  the
guns  on  land  and  water.  He  hoped,  he  said,  that  Cap-
tain Shaw  would  be  at  once  reenforced.  When  the
Governor  had  finished  the  General  took  up  the  theme,
telling  of  the  plot  and  how  he  had  discovered  it;  re-
marking that  his  knowledge  of  the  premeditated  expe-
dition had  been  first  communicated  to  him  by  a  special
messenger  of  the  conspirators  on  the  eighth  of  October,
at  the  moment  he  was  preparing  to  proceed  to  the

'Journal,  p.  367.
