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William Waddington, a London merchant. One of their sons, William Pendrell Waddington—the Waddingtons were descendants of the sister of the Richard Pendrell who concealed Charles II.—died at Rome in 1821; another was the father of the present French diplomatist. Sykes, English, but born and bred in Holland, seems to have escaped the imprisonment which befell Thomas Collow, a Scotchman, who after living in Tobago, settled in 1785 as a merchant at Havre. In a time of scarcity he bought foreign corn for the municipality, charging no commission, and he gave the first tidings (received from Bryan Edwards) of the St. Domingo rising, instead of speculating on his priority of information; yet he was arrested as a hostage in 1793. He twice petitioned the Convention, urging that merchandise for America was spoiling in his warehouses during his detention, and the municipality endorsed his request for release; but he apparently had to await the fall of Jacobinism. He remained at Havre, and died there in 1803. Another Tobago man, Daniel King, who had been naturalised and had settled as a shipowner at Dunkirk, was also arrested as an Englishman, with his partner Peter Watson.