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was a young French gentleman, a protestant born in Languedoe, who had been condemned by the senate to the gallies for life, for being aceessary to the death of a young noble Venetian, in a quarrel eoncerning a eourtezan. Having leave from his captain to ~eome on shore with a keeper wearing an iron bolt on his leg, our author eommenced an acquaintance with him, and greatly compassionating his misfortune, (being at Veniee when the aeeident happened,) eontrived his escape at the hazard of his own life, by means of an old Greek woman, his laundress, who lent him an old gown and a black veil for a disguse, Accordingly, Lithgow invited the keeper to a tavern, where, with deep draughts of Leatic, he intoxicated this Argus, and left him asleep. Then disburdening his friend of his irons, he elothed him in a female habit, and sent him out of the town, conducted by the Greek woman, and when past the guard and gate, our traveller followed him with his clothes, and, interehanging them, direeted him over the mountains to a Greek eonvent, where he might be entertained till the Maltese gallies or men-of-war should touch there, on their way to the Levant.
In his way back our author was met by two soldiers of his nation, Smith and Hurgrave, who were coming to inform him that the offieers of
