Ji THE LIFE OF 



that I would attend at the Governor's houfe : I 

 went accordingly, and found the Lieutenants 

 Governor talking with fome officers in the yard. 

 His behaviour to me was rude, which did not 

 produce any excefs of politenefs on rny lide ; 

 he did not take off his hat to me, and I refufe4 

 to do fo to him J ii> fine, without any examina- 

 tion had, I ^yas put under an arreft. 



My recommendations to the Britifh mer- 

 chants had JDeen pf the ftfongeft kind; and they 

 no fooner heard of my adventure, than they 

 offered and became my fecurities until the Gor 

 vernor-General, who was daily expedled, Ihould 

 return. I then fent off an exprefs to the 

 Duchefs of Kingfton, at her feat near Narva in. 

 Livonia; and Sauvage's wife fet off in perfoiif 

 for St. Peterfburgh. 



The Lieutenant-Governor, finding me fo re- 

 pedlably fupported, and that I was provided 

 with the neceffary pafTports for entering thp 

 country, made little objedion to leaving me at 

 large in the town until the Governor-General 

 fhould return. Mrs. Sauvage, who in the 

 fcuffle had received fome flight hurt in her face, 

 having procured recommendations from the 

 Fort Major, (who himfe|f began tp be appre- 

 henfive for his own fafety, from the fteps he hac} 

 taken againft me,) laid her complaint before 

 fhe Emprefs, through the Chancellor Count 



Ofterman, 



