CONTENTS. 



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CHAP. I. 



THE author's birth, education, and military dehtlt in 

 America in 1775. — Return to England in 1777. — Ren- 

 contre with the well known Mrs. Gooch.— Goes to 

 Lifle in Flanders.— Adventure there, which obliged 

 him to go to Tournay, the frontier town of the em- 

 pire •— -^ "— —* P* * 



CHAP. n. 



Goes to BrufTels. — Interview with Mr. Fitzherbert, now 

 Lord St. Helens. — Leaves BrufTels, and accompanies 

 the army of Frederic the Great, and the Emprefs Queen 

 of Hungary to the field, — Returns through Holland to 

 England. — Marries.— 'Goes to France ; and from thence, 

 at the inft^nce of the Duchefs of Kingfton, to Ruffia. 

 —Adventure at Riga in Livonia, — His arreft there. — 

 Goes to St. Peterlburg, and is introduced to Prince Po- 

 temkin and the Emprefs. — Curious particulars of the 

 Duchefs of IC.'s family — •«- p. 5 



CHAP. in. 



The author performs his miflion to Dantzic, and return- 

 in^ is met by a melTen ger to haftea his journey. — Ar- 



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