The Pharaon's late captain, a Bonapartist whose dying errand entangles Dantès.
Captain Leclère, a brave old seaman who fought the English for ten years, dies of brain-fever off Civita Vecchia and is buried at sea off El Giglio. A secret Bonapartist, he entrusted the dying commission to Dantès: to carry a packet to Marshal Bertrand on Elba and a letter onward to a committee in Paris. That innocent errand becomes the pretext for Dantès's ruin.
An old and honorable seaman, described only as a brave veteran of long service.
The dead captain whose secret errand the villains twist into treason.