“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 save him the extraordinary part of his remittance.

“The young man was enraged at the doctor, for exposing him, as he called it, to his father, and for the check he was continually giving to his lawless appetites; and falling into acquaintance with a cour-tezan, who was infamous for ruining many young travellers by her subtle and dangerous contrivances, they joined in a resolution to revenge themselves on the doctor, whom they considered as their greatest enemy.

“Several projects they fell upon: one in parti-cular, was, to accuse him, by a third hand, as con cerning himself with affairs of state in Venice: a crime, which in that jealous republic, is never over-looked, and generally ends fatall}’ for the accused; who, if seized, is hardly ever heard of afterwards.

From this danger he narrowly escaped, by means of his general good character, and remarkable inoffen-siveness, and the profligateness of his accusers: nor knew he his danger till many months afterwards. The doctor believes that he fared the better for being an Englishman, and a governor to the son of a British nobleman, who made so considerable a figure in England: because the Italians in general reap so much advantage from the travellers of this nation, that they are ready to favour and encourage them above those of any olhe\

‘ The doctor had been very solicitous to be ac-quitted of his ungracious charge. In every letter he wrote to England, this was one of his prayers: but still the father, who knew not what to do with his son at home, had besought his patience: and wrote to his son in the strongest terms, after reproaching him for his ungraciousness, to pay an implicit obe-dience to the doctor.

“The father was a learned man. Great pains had been taken with Lorimer, to make him know something of the ancientGreek and Roman histories, the father was very desirous, that his son should see the famous places of old Greece, of which he him-self had read so much: and, with great difficulty, the doctor got the young man to leave Venice, where the vile woman, and the diversions of the place, had taken scandalous hold of him.

“Athens was the city, at which the father had desired they would make some stay; and from thence visit other parts of the Morea: and there the young maii found his woman got before him, according to private agreement between them.