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polluted by the peftilent breath of flander-; I 

 Ihall therefore confine rnyfelf to obferving, that 

 my military debut was made in America, in the 

 year 1775, at the age of fixteen. 



My adventures there were not much varied 

 beyond thofe of my brethen of the fame rank. ^, 

 1 was, however, taken prifoner in 1776; but.* 

 Was relieved early in 1777, by* Lord Percy, whofe 

 retirement from the army his country may juft- 

 ly regret, and Sir Peter Pitker, theff com- 

 manding at Rhode Ifland, I was foon after 

 w ounded • and wis in confcquence fent home 

 from New York, in th6 Bridget of Liverpool, 

 Captain Gilbody. 



I landed in Ireland, and came from thence ^ 

 to Wales and to Bath; where I met with the 

 beautiful, but unfortunate, Mrs. Gooch. I 

 was in the rooms ; but 4s ^y wound rendered 

 dancing impofliblej £l party at picquet was pro- 

 pofed, which laid the' foundation of a connec- 

 tion that induced me to retire to Lifle in Flan- 

 ders. My ainour with Mrs. Gooch having been 

 related by the lady herfelf, in her Memoirs, 

 though not quite correSily^ I leave as it is t never- 

 thelefs, my reader may perhaps fmile with me 

 at her boaft of " then, and not till then, I fell,'* . 

 when they are informed that our joint ages did 

 iiot amount to fprty, 



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