“The doctor was exceedingly averse to take upon him the charge of the wicked youth abroad; having had too many instances of the badness of his nature while in England: but he was prevailed upon by the solicitations of his father (who represented it as an act of the greatest charity to him and his family) as well as by the solemn promises of good beha-viour from the young man; for he was known to re — gard the advice of Dr. Bartlett more than that of any other person.

“The doctor and Mr. Lorimer were at Turin, when young Mr. Grandison (who had been some months in France) for the first time arrived in that city; then in the eighteenth year of his age.

“Dr. Bartlett had not a more profligate pupil, than Mr. Grandison had agovernor; though recom-mended by General W. his uncle by the mother’s side. It used to be observed in places where they made but a few days’ residence, that the young gen-tleman ought to have been the governor, Monsieur Oeutzer the governed. Mr. Grandison had, in short, the happiness, by his prudence, to escape se-veral snares laid for his virtue, by a wretch, who hoped, if he could betray him into them, to silence the remonstrances of the young man, upon his evil conduct; and to hinder him from complaining of him to his father.

“Mr. Grandison became acquainted with Dr. Bartlett at Turin: Monsieur Creutzer, at the same time commenced an intimacy with Mr. Lorimer; and the two former were not more united from good qualities, than the two latter were from bad.

“Several riotous things were done by Creutzer and Lorimer, who, whatever the doctor could do to separate them, were hardly ever asunder. One of their enormities fell under the cognizance of the civil magistrate: and was not made easy to Lorimer without great interest andexpence; while Creutzer fled to Rome, to avoid condign punishment; and wrote to Mr. Grandison to join him there.

“Then it was, that Mr. Grandison wrote (as he had often ineffectually threatened to do) to represent to his father the profligacy of the man; and to re-quest him to appoint him another governor; or to permit him to return to England till he had made choice of one for him; begging of Dr. Bartlett, that he would allow him, till he had an answer from his father, to apply to him for advice and instruction.

“The answer of his father was, That he heard of his prudence from every mouth: that he was at li-berty to choose what companion he pleased: but that he gave him no governor but his own discretion.

“Mr. Grandison then, more earnestly than before, and with an humility and diffidence, suited to his natural generosity of temper, that never grew upon indulgence, hesought the doctor’s direction: and when they were obliged to separate, they esta-blished a correspondence, which never will end but with the life of one of them.