prisoner in the fort, because the gaol of New York is weak
and insufficient. And when orders come to me to send Kidd and his men
to England (which I long for impatiently), I will also send Clarke[3]
as an associate of Kidd."

Three days later, the Lieutenant Governor of New York wrote Bellomont
as follows:

"Clarke proffers 12,000 pounds good Security and will on oath deliver
up all the goods he hath been entrusted with from Kidd, provided he may
go and fetch them himself, but says he will rather die or be undone
than to bring his friends into a Predicament. I told him if he would
let me know where I might secure these goods or Bullion, I would
recommend his case to your Lordship's favour. He answered 'twas
impossible to recover anything until he went himself."

After leaving the bulk of his treasure on Gardiner's Island, Kidd
received another friendly message from Lord Bellomont, and was by now
persuaded that he could go to Boston without danger. With his wife on
board his sloop, and she stood by him staunchly, he laid a course
around Cape Cod and made port on the first day of July. Captain and
Mrs. William Kidd found lodgings in the house of their friend, Duncan
Campbell, and he walked unmolested for a week, passing some of the time
in the Blue Anchor tavern. "Being a very resolute fellow," wrote
Hutchinson, "when the officer arrested him in his lodgings, he
attempted to draw his sword, but a young gentleman who accompanied the
officer, laying hold of his arm, prevented him and he submitted."

In the letters of Lord Bellomont to the Lords of Plantations and
Colonies are fully related the particulars of Kidd's downfall and of
the finding of his treasure. On July 26th, he stated:

"_My Lords:_

"I gave your Lordships a short account of my taking Capt. Kidd in my
letter of the 8th. Inst. I shall in this letter confine myself wholly
to an account of my proceedings with him. On the 13th, of last month
Mr. Emmot, a lawyer of N. York came to me late at night and told me he
came from Capt. Kidd who was on the Coast with a Sloop, but would not
tell me where; that Kidd had brought 60 pounds weight of gold, about
100 weight of silver, and 17 bales of East India goods (which was less
by 24 bales than we have since got out of the sloop). That Kidd had
left behind him a great Ship near the coast of Hispaniola that nobody
but himself could find out, on board whereof there were in bale goods,
saltpetre, and