“It was some time before the doctor knew for certain that the ungracious Lorimer had been consenting to the shocking treatment he had met with; for the wretches whom the vile woman had suborn-ed, had made their escape from Athens before the arrival of Mr. Grandison and the chiaux; the fla-gitious youth had written to his father, in terms of the deepest sorrow, an account of what had befallen his governor; and his father had taken the best mea-sures that could be fallen upon at so great distance, for the doctor’s succour and liberty; but in all probability, he would have been lost before those mea — sures could have taken effect.

“Lorimer’s father, little thinking that his son had connived at the plot formed against his governor, besought him, when he had obtained his liberty, not to leave his son to his own devices. The doctor, as little thinking then that Lorimer had been capable of a baseness so very villanous, in compassion both to father and son, 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 courses, became at last a sacrifice to his dis soluteness; and his death was a deliverance to his family, to the doctor, and to the earth.

“On his death-bed he confessed the plot, which the infamous courtezan had meditated against the doctor at Venice, as well as his connivance at that which she had carried into execution at Athens. He died in horror not to be described; begging for longer life, and promising reformation on that condition. The manner of his death, and the crimes he confessed himself guilty of, by the instigation of the most abandoned of women, besides those committed against his governor, so shocked and grieved the docter, that he fell ill, and his recovery was long doubtful.

“Mean time Mr. Grandison visited some parts of Asia and Africa, Egypt particularly; corresponding all the time with Dr. Bartlett, and allowing the cor-respondence to pass into the hands of Mr. Beau — champ; as did that which he held with Mr. Beauchamp, to be communicated to the doctor.

“When Mr. Grandison returned to Italy, finding there his two friends, he engaged the doctor to accompany Mr. Beauchamp in that part of his tour into some of the eastern regions, which he himself had been particularly pleased with, and, as he said, wanted to be more particularly informed of: and therefore insisted, that it should be taken at his own expence. He knew that Mr. Beauchamp had a step-mother, who had prevailed on his father to take off two-thirds of the allowance he made him on his travels.

“Mr. Beauchamp very reluctantly complied with the condition so generously imposed on him by his beloved friend: another of whose argument was, that such a tour would be the most likely means to establish the health of a man equally dear to both.