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number as exaggerated, for I myfelf remarked, 

 that all the foldiers on guard, wherever i paifed, 

 were compofed, to a third at le^ftj ot Frenchmçn ; 

 and fuch guards are to be found at the gates of all 

 the cities, and in all the villages on the great read, 

 efpecially toward the froniier. 



When I was in the Ruffian fervice, they reck- 

 oned near three thoufand teacher^ of language of 

 our nation in the city of Mofcow, among whom I 

 knew a great many perfons of refpeclable f smilies, 

 advocates, young ecclehafMcs, gentlemen, and. even 

 officers. Germany is filled wiih our wretched 

 compatriots. In the Courts of the Souih and of 

 the North, what is to be feen but trench dancers 

 and comedians? This we have in common, at this 

 day, with the Italians, and this we had in common 

 with the Greeks of the lower empire. In order to 

 find the means of fubfiftencc, we hunt after a 

 country different from that to which we owe our 

 birth. We do not find the other nations of Eu- 

 rope in this erratic ftate, except the S-.vifs, who 

 trade in the human fpecies, but who ali return 

 home, after having made their fortune. Our com- 

 patriots never return ; becaufe the precarious em- 

 ph yments which they jurfue do not admit of their 

 amafiing the means of a reputable fubliftencej 

 one day, in their native country. 



Meîj 



