uction; for by his sentence, from which there was no appeal, he
would have been taken, in a few days, to Grenada, and burnt to ashes:
and that a poor ordinary servant, who had not the least knowledge of
him, nor was any ways interested in his preservation, should risk the
displeasure of his master, and hazard his own life, to disclose a thing
of so momentous and perilous a nature, to a strange gentleman, on whose
secrecy depended his own existence. By such secondary means does
Providence frequently interfere in behalf of the virtuous and oppressed;
of which this is a most distinguished example.

After lying twelve days in the road, the ship weighed anchor, and in
about two months arrived safe at Deptford. The next morning, Mr. Lithgow
was carried on a feather bed to Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, where at
that time was the king and royal family. His majesty happened to be that
day engaged in hunting, but on his return in the evening, Mr. Lithgow
was presented to him, and related the particulars of his sufferings, and
his happy delivery. The king was so affected at the narrative, that he
expressed the deepest concern, and gave orders that he should be sent to
Bath, and his wants properly supplied from his royal munificence. By
these means, under God, after some time, Mr. Lithgow was restored, from
the most wretched spectacle, to a great share of health and strength;
but he lost the use of his left arm, and several of the smaller bones
were so crushed and broken, as to be ever after rendered useless.

Notwithstanding every effort was used, Mr. Lithgow could never obtain
any part of his money or effects, though his majesty and the ministers
of state, interested themselves in his behalf. Gondamore, the Spanish
ambassador, indeed, promised that all his effects should be restored,
with the addition of L1000 English money, as some atonement for the
tortures he had undergone, which last was to be paid him by the governor
of Malaga. These engagements, however, were but mere promises; and
though the king was a kind of guarantee for the well performance of
them, the cunning Spaniard found means to elude the same. He had,
indeed, too great a share of influence in the English council during the
time of that pacific reign, when England suffered herself to be bullied
into slavish compliance by most of the states and kings in Europe.

_Croly on the Inquisition._

We shall conclude this chapter with the subjoined extract from the New