obliged to rouse myself, that I might execute my plan.

With the bar that separated my hands, I loosened the bricks of my
seat, which, being newly laid, was easily done, and heaped them up
in the middle of my prison. The inner door was quite open, and with
my chains I so barricaded the upper half of the second as to prevent
any one climbing over it. When noon came and the first of the doors
was unlocked, all were astonished to find the second open. There I
stood, besmeared with blood, the picture of horror, with a brick in
one hand, and in the other my broken knife, crying, as they
approached, "Keep off, Mr. Major, keep off! Tell the governor I
will live no longer in chains, and that here I stand, if so he
pleases, to be shot; for so only will I be conquered. Here no man
shall enter--I will destroy all that approach; here are my weapons;
lucre will I die in despite of tyranny." The major was terrified,
wanted resolution, and made his report to the governor. I meantime
sat down on my bricks, to wait what might happen: my secret intent,
however, was not so desperate as it appeared. I sought only to
obtain a favourable capitulation.

The governor, General Borck, presently came, attended by the town-
major and some officers, and entered the outward cell, but sprang
back the moment he beheld a figure like me, standing with a brick
and uplifted arm. I repeated what I had told the major, and he
immediately ordered six grenadiers to force the door. The front
cell was scarcely six feet broad, so that no more than two at a time
could attack my intrenchment, and when they saw my threatening
bricks ready to descend, they leaped terrified back. A short pause
ensued, and the old town-major, with the chaplain, advanced towards
the door to soothe me: the conversation continued some time: whose