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                          WONDERFUL ESCAPES.

           [Illustration: Osmond carrying off Duke Richard.]




                           WONDERFUL ESCAPES

                _REVISED FROM THE FRENCH OF F. BERNARD
                     AND ORIGINAL CHAPTERS ADDED._

                                  BY
                           RICHARD WHITEING.

                        With Twenty-six Plates.

                               NEW YORK:
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.
                                 1871.




                    Illustrated Library of Wonders.

                             PUBLISHED BY
                    Messrs. Charles Scribner & Co.,
                        654 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.


Each one volume 12mo.                            Price per volume, $1.50.

_Titles of Books._                                 _No. of Illustrations_

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING,                                                39

WONDERS OF OPTICS,                                                    70

WONDERS OF HEAT,                                                      90

INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS,                                              54

GREAT HUNTS,                                                          22

EGYPT 3,300 YEARS AGO,                                                40

WONDERS OF POMPEII,                                                   22

THE SUN, BY A. GUILLEMIN,                                             53

SUBLIME IN NATURE,                                                    50

WONDERS OF GLASS MAKING,                                              63

WONDERS OF ITALIAN ART,                                               28

WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY,                                            45

WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE,                                              50

LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS,                                           60

BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN,                                                  68

WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL,                                 70

WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS,                                            30

ACOUSTICS,                                                           114

WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS,                                               48

* THE MOON, BY A. GUILLEMIN,                                          60

* WONDERS OF SCULPTURE,                                               61

* WONDERS OF ENGRAVING,                                               32

* WONDERS OF VEGETATION,                                              45

* WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,                                     97

CELEBRATED ESCAPES,                                                   26

* WATER,                                                              77

* HYDRAULICS,                                                         40

* ELECTRICITY,                                                        71

* SUBTERRANEAN WORLD,                                                 27


* In Press for early Publication.

_The above works sent to any address, post paid, upon receipt of the
price by the publishers._




CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE

Aristomenes the Messenian                                              1

Hegesistratus                                                          2

Demetrius Soter                                                        4

Marius                                                                 6

Attalus                                                               10

Richard, Duke of Normandy                                             15

Louis II., Count of Flanders                                          17

The Duke of Albany                                                    19

James V., King of Scotland                                            22

Secundus Curion                                                       25

Benvenuto Cellini                                                     26

Mary, Queen of Scots                                                  41

Caumont de la Force                                                   45

Charles de Guise                                                      54

Mary de Medicis                                                       56

Grotius                                                               60

Isaac Arnauld                                                         63

The Duke of Beaufort                                                  65

Cardinal de Retz                                                      69

Quiquéran de Beaujeu                                                  76

Charles II.                                                           78

Blanche Gamond                                                        90

Jean Bart and the Chevalier de Forbin                                 96

Duguay Trouin                                                         99

The Abbé Count de Bucquoy                                            101

Jacobite Insurrectionists                                            108

Charles Edward                                                       111

Stanislaus Leczinski                                                 118

Baron Trenck                                                         122

Cassanova de Seingalt                                                160

Latude                                                               214

Beniowski                                                            229

Twelve Priests saved by Geoffroy St. Hilaire                         236

De Chateaubrun                                                       238

Sydney Smith                                                         239

Pichegru, Ramel, Barthelemy, etc.                                    241

Colonel de Richemont                                                 248

Captain Grivel                                                       254

Lavalette                                                            255

Giovanni Arrivabene, Ugoni, and Scalvini                             262

Political Prisoners, 1834                                            265

Monsieur Rufin Piotrowski                                            267

Prince Louis Napoleon                                                284

James Stephens                                                       298




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


                                                                    PAGE

I. They came at last to an opening,                                    2

II. Marius sent away from Minturnæ,                                   10

III. I then tore them up into long bands,                             29

IV. Cellini attacked by the dogs,                                     36

V. Escape of Mary, Queen of Scots, from Loch Leven
Castle,                                                               44

VI. “Hush!” said the man, “keep quiet, they are
still there,”                                                         48

VII. She lifted the lid of the chest, and her master
leaped out safe and sound,                                            62

VIII. He let himself drop into the sea,                               78

IX. They grew very angry at my rudeness,                              88

X. I was obliged to support myself with one arm,                      92

XI. My foot got stuck, and the sentinel seized it,                   127

XII. Trenck escaping with Lieutenant Schell,                         138

XIII. The first grenadier I knocked down,                            155

XIV. I heard the sound of a door being unbolted,                     174

XV. I told him to be very careful not to spill the sauce,            186

XVI. Balbi rolled down into my arms,                                 197

XVII. The monk clung to my waistband,                                202

XVIII. I told him I was going to bury him,                           213

XIX. I saw on the parapet the soldiers of the grand round,           224

XX. Stop, thief!                                                     228

XXI. The woodman pulled out a knife and did so,                      239

XXII. He affected great surprise,                                    241

XXIII. I held my handkerchief to my eyes,                            258

XXIV. They fell exhausted to the ground,                             264

XXV. The sight of the seal was sufficient,                           278

XXVI. Osmond carrying off Duke Richard,                  _Frontispiece_.




WONDERFUL ESCAPES.




_ARISTOMENES THE MESSENIAN._

ABOUT 684 B.C.


Aristomenes, the Messenian general, fighting at the head of his troops
against very superior numbers of the Lacedemonians, commanded by the two
kings of Sparta, received a severe blow on the head from a stone, and
fell insensible and to all appearance dead. He was taken prisoner, with
fifty of his soldiers, and dragged to Sparta, where the Lacedemonians
condemned them all to be thrown into the Cœada, a hideous gulf formed
by a fissure in the earth, in whose depths already lay the bones of
hundreds of criminals who had been put to death. The barbarous sentence
was actually carried out; and Aristomenes, with all his surviving
soldiers, was hurled into the gulf. The latter perished to a man in the
fall; but