Barlow and others in the crew successfully recover their money in Doctors Commons Court. He evades the pressgang and signs on the MADEROSSE, bound for Guinea.

Barlow comments that many sailors prefer to serve on the ships of other nations to escape the pressgang and unfair deductions from their pay. He and others win a case in Doctors Commons Court and recover their money. He stays with his master's wife on shore, but to avoid the active pressgang Barlow signs himself on the MADEROSSE, bound for Guinea as both merchant ship and man-of-war.