great an honour, refused to deliver it up to him. Indignant at this affront, Lucas drew his sword and cut off Conrad's hand, which held the standard; Conrad, however, grasped the standard with his other hand and with his teeth, and held it till it tore; Lucas then snatching up the fragments of the flag, betrayed the infantry, and deserted to the Russians. The result of this treachery was, that nearly four hundred foot soldiers were horribly slaughtered by the enemy; the remainder, who kept the ranks, returned safe with the cavalry. Lucas was the cause of this slaughter. Being subsequently taken prisoner by the Russians, and sent to Moscow, he held for some time an honourable position at the prince's court; but writhing under the injury he had sustained from the Russians, he subsequently escaped secretly from Moscow, and went over to Christjern, King of Denmark, who made him his captain of artillery; but as some of the foot soldiers who had escaped from the above slaughter, and had fled into Denmark, informed the king of his treachery, and declared that they would not fight in his company. King Christjern sent him to Stockholm, and changes afterwards taking place in the state of the kingdom, Josterick alias Gustavus, King of Sweden, on recovering Stockholm, admitted Lucas, whom he found there, into the number of his intimates, and made him governor of the town of Viburg; but finding himself accused of I know not what crime, and fearing somewhat serious consequences, he again betook himself to Moscow, where I saw him honourably enrolled among the stipendiaries of the prince.
Sweden, which adjoins the Russians' dominions, is united to Norway and Scandia, much as Italy is united to the kingdom of Naples and Piedmont. It is washed on nearly all sides: first, by the Baltic Sea, and then by the ocean which we now call the Frozen Ocean. Sweden, whose royal city is Holmia, — called by the inhabitants Stockholm, and by the Russians Stecolna, — is a very extensive kingdom, comprising
