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wore the uniform of the Guards. Owing to 

 fome improprieties of his conduft, which I 

 confidered as incompatible with the charadler of 

 a Britifh foldier, I found myfelf obliged to call 

 upon him for an explanation ; which he was not 

 only unable to give, but behaved with fuch in- 

 folence that I was reduced to appeal to the mi- 

 litary judicature of the fword. His wife, who 

 was in an inner apartment, (for this happened 

 in a large anti-chamber at an inn,) hearing 

 what was going forward, fprung out; and, with 

 all the fury of a tygrefs, entangled me in a no 

 very loving embrace. Swords being already 

 drawn, there was no time to trifle; fo, fome- 

 what roughly difengaging myfelf from the la- 

 dy's arms, I beckoned her hufband into the 

 flreet, and fairly locked her into the room. I 

 was making the bed of my way to the ramparts, 

 when he told me there was a fhorter cut ; on 

 which I followed him till he flopped oppofite 

 a guard, when, without further ceremony, 

 he began to roar out for afliftance. I went 

 home to my inn, where I had not long been 

 when the Deputy-Governor, (who commanded 

 in the abfence of the Governor-General of Li- 

 vonia, Brown,) fent a guard for me, at the in- 

 ftance of the Fort-Major, who was a country- 

 man of Sauvage's. The officer of the guard 

 adled with great politenefs ; and took my word 



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