Chevalier de Lascaris

“The Chevalier de Lascaris, whose recent death was not so pungently deplored, and whose life had been a scene of agitation, had followed the fortune of general Bonaparte, after the capitulation which put Malta into his possession; fame reports that he was privy to and a party concerned in the negociation which was succeeded by that treaty. He grew weary of the military service, and left the French army, to remain in the East when they quitted Egypt.
In his peregrinations among the Arabs, he took a number of wives; his restless humour brought him at length to Cairo, where Mohamed Pacha employed him in the instruction of his icoglans, pages. He complained rather too freely of the inferiority of his situation, and it is thought that his intriguing temper and indiscreet menaces were the means of hastening his death, some unnatural circumstances of which gave rise to a suspicion of poison. Such was the calamitous exit of the descendant of one of the princes of Trebisond.”

From Travels in Egypt
by Count de Forbin, 1817-18