'  Mr.  Grandison  was  equally  grieved  and  astonished  at
the  information.  He  instantly  applied  to  the  English  am-
bassador at  the  Porte,  as  also  to  the  French  minister  there,
with  whom  he  had  made  an  acquaintance:  they  to  i\ic
grand  vizier:  and  an  order  was  issued  for  setting  the  doctor
at  liberty.  Mr.  Grandison,  in  order  to  urge  the  de-
spatch of  the  chiaux,  who  carried  it,  accompanied  him,
and  arrived  at  Athens,  just  as  the  vayvode  had  determined
to  get  rid  of  the  whole  affair  in  a  private  manner  (tlie
doctor's  finances  being  exhausted)  by  the  bow-string.  The
danger  endeared  the  doctor  to  Mr.  Grandison  ;  a  relief  so
seasonable  endeared  Mr.  Grandison  to  the  doctor;  to
them  both  Mr.  Beauchamp,  who  would  not  stir  from
Athens,  till  lie  had  seen  him  delivered  ;  having  busied  him-
self, in  the  interim,  in  the  best  manner  he  could,  (though  he
was  obliged  to  use  caution  and  secrecy,)  to  do  him  service,
and  to  suspend  the  fatal  blow.
'  Here  was  a  cement  to  a  friendship  (that  had  been  be-
gun between  the  young  gentlemen  from  likeness  of  man-
ners) between  them  and  the  doctor,  whom  they  have  had
tlie  goodness  ever  since  to  regard  as  their  fiither:  and  to
this  dav  it  is  one  of  the  doctor's  delights  to  write  to  his


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worthy  son  Beauchanip  all  that  lie  can  come  at,  relating
to  the  life  and  actions  of  a  man,  whom  the  one  regards  as
an  example,  the  other  as  an  honour  to  the  human  race.
