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THE ROBBERS.
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all the apartments locked.—In answer to my eager enquiries, I was told he was gone to wait on the Prince.—Thither I flew directly—he was not to be found.—I return'd once more to his house, forc'd open the door of his apartment, and there found the base wretch—but at the very moment five of six of his domestics beset me at once, and took my sword from me.

Switzer.

(Stamps with his feet.) And was nothing done to the wretch?—no vengeance?—

Kozinski.

I was immediately thrown in irons—brought to trial—condemn'd—and mark me now—by a singular exertion of lenity—banish'd as a malefactor from the Prince's dominions for ever—my whole fortune confiscated to the minister.—Amelia, poor Amelia, remains as a lamb within the tyger's grasp,—and I must bend submissive to the yoke of despotism.——

Switzer.

(Rises, and whets his sword.) Captain! this

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