to enable him to carry on that Design more effectually. I was appli'd to, and kept in the torture four hours together.
On the 7th of July, the Mandarins made me go for Siam in the company of a French Soldier call'd Picquard, who had the misfortune to be made a Prisoner the same day that Monsieur de Braham made his Retreat from Morgen; and tho' we were but two Men, and both in Chains, yet such was the mistruft they entertain'd of us, that they would needs send above Sixty Soldiers to guard us thither.
On the 17th I came to Siam, and on the 19th was brought to Louvo. The first place they brought me into, was the great Hall where the Barcalon was sitting with many Mandarins about him, who commanded me to be Interrogated very strictly upon several Matters relating to Monsieur Bruham.
Next Morning I was informed by a Missionary Priest, who accidentally discovered the place where I was kept Prisoner, that the Bishop of Metellopolis was gone to Bancock, by the express command of Opra Pitrachard, to negotiate a Treaty of Peace with Monsieur des Farges our General, and that they were in daily expectation of hearing of the conclusion of it. This was the first time that I had any tolerable ground to entertain my self with the hopes of Life, since my falling into their hands; for 'till now I gave all for lost.
On the 25th the Bishop return'd to Louvo with full power from Monsieur des Farges, to Treat about a Peace;
