ing of Mr Grandifon's letters had upon him, was to make him hate the more both his governor and that gentleman. By one of these letters only, did he do himself temporary credit. It was written fome months before it was fhewn him, and defcribed fome places of note thro' which Mr Grandifon had paffed, and thro' which the Doctor and his charge had alfo more lately, paffed. The mean creature contrived to steal it, and his father having often urged for à fpecimen of his fon's obfervations on his travels, he copied it almost verbatim, and tranfmitted it as his own to his father; only letting the Doctor know, after he had fent it away, that he had written.

"The Doctor doubted not but Lorimer had expofed himself; but was very much furprised, when he received a congratulatory letter from the father on his fon's improvements, mingled with fome little afperity on the Doctor, for having fet out his fon to his difadvantage: "I could not doubt," faid the fond father, "that a fon of mine had genius: "He wanted nothing but to apply."-And then he gave orders for doubling the value of his next remittance.

"The Doctor took the young gentleman to task about it. He owned what he had done, and gloried in his contrivance. But his governor thought it incumbent upon him to undeceive the father, and to fave him the extraordinary part of his remittance.

"The young man was enraged at the Doctor, for expofing him, as he called it, to his father, and for the check he was continually giving to his lawlefs appetites; and falling into acquaintance with a courtezan, who was infamous for ruining many young travellers by her fubtile and dangerous contrivances, they joined in a refolution to revenge themselves on the Doctor, whom they confidered as their greatest enemy.

"Several

Several projects they fell upon: One in particular was to accufe him, by a third hand, as concerning himself with affairs of ftate in Venice: A crime, which in that jealous republic, is never overlooked, and generally ends fatally for the accufed; who, if feized, is hardly ever heard of afterwards. From this danger he narrowly efcaped, by means of his general good character, and remarkable inoffenfivenefs, and the profligacy of his accufers: Nor knew he his danger till many months afterwards. The Doctor believes, that he fared the better for being an Englishman, and the governor to the fon of a British nobleman, who made fo confiderable a figure in England; because the Italians in general reap fo much advantage from the travellers of this nation, that they are ready to favour and encourage them above those of any other.

"The Doctor had been very folicitous to be acquitted of his ungracious charge. In every letter he wrote to England, this was one of his prayers: But ftill the father, who knew not what to do with his fon at home, had befought his patience; and wrote to his fon in the ftrongeft terms, after reproaching him for his ungraciousness, to pay an implicit obedience to the Doctor.

The father was a learned man. Great pains had been taken with Lorimer to make him know fomething of the antient Greek and Roman hiftories. The father was very defirous that his fon fhould fee the famous places of old Greece, of which he himself had read fo much: And with

great difficulty, the Doctor got the young man to

leave Venice, where the vile woman, and the diverfions of the place, had taken fcandalous hold of him.

"Athens was the city at which the father had defired they would make fome ftay; and from thence vifit other parts of the Morea: And there

the

the young man found his woman got before him, according to private agreement between them.

"It was fome time before the Doctor found out, that the very woman who had acted fo abandoned a part with Lorimer at Venice, was his mistress at Athens: and when he did, he applied, on fome fresh enormities committed by Lorimer, to the tribunal which the Chriftians have there, confifting of eight quarters of the city, to determine caufes among Chriftians; and they taking cognizance of the facts, the wicked woman fuborned wretches to accufe the Doctor to the Cadi, who is the Turkish judge of the place, as a dangerous and difaffected perfon; and the Cadi being, as it was fuppofed, corrupted by prefents, got the Vayvode or governor to interfere; and the Doctor was feized, and thrown into prifon: His Chriftian friends in the place were forbidden to interpofe in his favour; and pen and ink, and all accefs to him were prohibited.

"The vile woman having concerted measures with the perfons fhe had fuborned for continuing the Doctor in his severe confinement, set out with her paramour for Venice; and there they rioted as before.

"Mr. Beauchamp, a young man of learning and fine parts, happened to make an acquaintance with Mr Grandifon in the ifland of Candia, where they met as countrymen, which, from a fympathy of mind, grew immediately into an intimacy that will hardly ever end. This young gentleman, in the courfe of his travels, vifiting Athens about this time, was informed of the Doctor's misfortune, by one of the eight Chriftians who conftituted the tribunal above mentioned, and who was an affectionate friend of the Doctor, though forbidden to bufy himself in his caufe: And Mr Beauchamp (who had heard Mr Grandifon fpeak of the Doctor with an uncommon affection) knowing that Mr Grandifon

Grandifon was then at Conftantinople, difpatched a man on purpose to acquaint him with the affair, and with all the particulars he could get of the cafe, authenticated as much as the nature of the thing would admit.

"Mr Grandifon was equally grieved and aftonished at the information. He inftantly applied to the English ambassador at the Porte, as alfo to the French minifter there, with whom he had made an acquaintance: They to the grand vizir: And an order was iffued for fetting the Doctor at liberty. Mr Grandifon, in order to urge the difpatch of the Chiaux, who carried it, accompanied him, and arrived at Athens, juft as the Vayvode had determined to get rid of the whole affair in a private manner (the Doctor's finances being exhausted), by the bow-ftring. The danger endeared the Doctor to Mr Grandifon; a relief fo feasonable endeared Mr Grandison to the Doctor; to them both Mr Beauchamp, who would not ftir from Athens till he had seen him delivered; having bufied himfelf in the interim, in the best manner he could (though he was obliged to ufe caution and fecrecy), to do him fervice, and to fufpend the fatal blow.

Here was a cement to a friendship (that had been begun between the young gentlemen from likeness of manners) between them and the Doctor, whom they have had the goodness ever fince to regard as their father: And to this day it is one of the Doctor's delights to write to his worthy fon Beauchamp all that he can come at, relating to the life and actions of a man whom the one regards as an example, the other as an honour to the human

race.

"It was fome time before the Doctor knew for certain, that the ungracious Lorimer had been confenting to the fhocking treatment he had met with; for the wretches whom the vile woman had fubor

ned

ned had made their escape from Athens before the arrival of Mr Grandifon and the Chiaux; the flagitious youth had written to his father, in terms of the deepest forrow, an account of what had befallen his governor; and his father had taken the best measures that could be fallen upon at fo great a diftance, for the Doctor's fuccour and liberty: But, in all probability, he would have been loft before thofe measures could have taken effect.

"Lorimer's father, little thinking that his fon had connived at the plot formed against his gover. nor, befought him, when he had obtained his liberty, not to leave his fon to his own devices. The Doctor, as little thinking then that Lorimer had been capable of a baseness fo very villainous, in compallion both to father and fon, went to Venice, and got him out of the hands of the vile woman, and then to Rome: But there, the unhappy wretch continuing his profligate courfes, became at last a facrifice to his diffoluteness; and his death was a deliverance to his family, to the Doctor, and to the earth.

On his death-bed he confeffed the plot, which the infamous courtezan had meditated against the Doctor at Venice, as well as his connivance at that which fhe had carried into execution at Athens. He died in horror not to be defcribed; begging for longer life, and promifing reformation on that condition. The manner of his death, and the crimes he confeffed himself guilty of, by the inftigation of the most abandoned of women, befides thofe committed against his governor, fo fhocked and grieved the Doctor, that he fell ill, and his recovery was long doubted of.

"Mean time Mr Grandifon vifited fome parts of Afia and Africa, Egypt particularly; correfponding all the time with Dr Bartlett, and allowing the correspondence to pass into the hands of Mr Beauchamp,