f ^ ^ r ir - «en fetr pctibticF, fad fent -him an honourable knigitt with crcdeaiiaji letters at ambaffador, and like wife wkh fuch grand pre&nts as he was furc ipwM give him delight. The fukan afkcd if ht had fcen theih. He replied, c I have not) but the knight charged with thexomtmfiion has brought tfaq if far as Hungary, and is now at Buda wait-ing my return, with paffpofts for him to continue his journey : I came tô announcet his news to you, and to folicit paftports, if it bfc agreeable to you tô receive him.* c We are very willing he ihoùld have pafiports, and you riiay have thcitt made out in any form you choofe.* The knqjht thanked him for his gracious an-fwer, when the fultan left him to attend to other affairs. About an hour afterwards^ fir James re-quefted the fulûfo's permilfion tovifit and convcrfc wi& the French prisoners, as he had much to lay to them from their friends arid retirions. Ôajaaet was fome time filent before he gara him m un-fwer, when he faid, € Thou (halt fee one of them* but not more.* He then mode a fign to his at-tendants for the count de Nevers to* fafe brought to converfe with fir James for a fhortfpace, and the A to be carried back to his prifon. - • The order was inftaàdy obeyed j aad the count de Ne vers law fir James de Belly with grtatjoy. He made many inquiries after thfc king of France*, the duke and duchefs of Burgundy* and what wa* pafiing ' in that country. The knight related to him every thing he had fecit or heard* and deli-vered