^ MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 2^ 



^' like him by your lidc, and a friend like me 

 ** wherever you go." 



Next day an cxprcfs arrived from the Duchefs 

 for the Prince, \\'ith heavy complaints of my 

 condud: to her, my delays upon the road, and a 

 long firing of ^c.'s. This furnilhed matter of 

 amufement to the Prince, v\ ho could not en- 

 dure her ; for (he, partly through her ignorance 

 of the Kmprefs's permifiion for me to go out of 

 my route, and partly through malice, had (o 

 caricatured the flory, that it became the fubjedl 

 of laughter to all who heard it. To add to her 

 mortification, he made me not only read it to 

 him, but anfwer it forthwith ; which I did in 

 French to the following effe(^l:, fometime in the 

 month of July 1783: "' Madam, I had the ho- 

 ** nour to receive your difpatch from his High- 

 ** nefs ; I had aifo the honour to read it to him; 

 " and am, by his Highnefs's commands, 

 *' Madam, &c. &c. &c." 

 Cherfon is a town which the Emprefs built 

 on the river Nieper feveral leagues abave its 

 mouth, with the view of^ forming a new colony 

 there ; for this purpofe fne ilfued, by her Mini- 

 ftfer at Leghorn, a proclamation to the exiled 

 Corficans, by the title of Les Cor/es Expul/ts i 

 under which name perfons of ^U nations afTem- 

 bled at her rendezvous, and were tranfported by 

 the way of the Dardenellcs and Black Sea to 



C ^ Cher foil. 



