3° 4- TRAVELS in GREECE.
Venice# w h i t ó ï t is' ïequiired that all rveflefego before they
lade with currants at Zante.
D uring our refldence in the city, the houfe of a perfon who
had fled from juftice was razed to the ground by a party of
foldiers j and the body o f a ftate-prifoner, one Balfamachi of
Cephallenia, who had been fent in irons from Conftantinopie,
was expofed for a day on a gallows. He fucceeded ps in our
apartments in thê Lazaretto, and, when his quarantine expired,
was privately ftrangled there, conveyed in a boat acrofs the
harbour, and fufpended in the morning early ; a paper hanging
on his breaft, inlcribed with his name, his country, and crime
in capital letters.
S o m e fmaller veflels, which arrived, brought us intelligence
that the Roman Emperor, Capt. Lad, and the Sea-horfe,
Capt. James for London, were preparing to fed from Venice.
We agreed for a paflage, and put our baggage and provisions on
board the Roman Emperor, but were induced to remand them j
and then fixed oar hopes on the Sea-horfe. That (hip tarrying
e He where, we embarked in the evening, on Sunday September
the firft, New Stile, 1766, in the brig Diligence, Captain Longi
carrying five men and two boys, bound for Briftol. After a
ftormy and perilous voyage we anchóred in Ring-road op the
fecond o f November; but the ,Sea-horfe was loft at Scilly on
the eleventh of the following month.
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