Avedick is at first confined in the Prisons of the Arsenal--From Marseilles he is conducted to Mount Saint-Michel--Description of Mount Saint-Michel--Treatment to which Avedick is exposed--His useless Protestations against this Abuse of Force--Universal Emotion excited throughout the East--Complaints of the Divan--Ferriol’s Impudence--Terrible Reprisals practised on the Catholics--False Avedicks--Expedients to which Ferriol is reduced--Inquietude of the Roman Court--Duplicity of Louis XIV.’s Government--Avedick is transferred to the Bastille--Suggestions of which he is the Object--He abjures and is set at Liberty--He dies at Paris in the Rue Férou--Delusive Document drawn up with Reference to this Death--Share of Responsibility which attaches to each of the Authors of the Abduction. It was not at Marseilles that Avedick was detained, neither was he sent, as has been said, to Messina, or to the Isles Sainte-Marguerite to be imprisoned. Louis XIV. was too prudent and too circumspect to leave in a port of the Mediterranean an individual whom his co-religionists, supported by the Ottoman Porte, were energetically demanding and seeking with anxious solicitude. Directly the Government of Louis XIV. was advised of the outcry which the disappearance of the Grand Patriarch had excited in the East, an Exempt was sent to Marseilles, to M. de Montmor, intendant of the galleys, in order to withdraw Avedick from the prisons of the Arsenal, and conduct him, “under good and sure guard,” to the other extremity of France. At the same time it was enjoined “to all governors, mayors, syndics, and other officials, to give the Exempt every protection, aid, and assistance in case of need,”[291] rather an unnecessary precaution in the case of this weak and inoffensive old man.