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MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 3I 



** new regulations into the army, both in regard 

 " to drefs and manceuvres ; and had it not been 

 ** for fome manoeuvres of another nature, fu.ch as 

 writing to the Duchefs of Kingfton, that he 

 would come by night with fome foldiers, and 

 break into her houfe, unlcfs Ihe fent him a 

 " certain fum of money, &c. there is not a 

 " doubt but he would foon have been raifed to 

 ** the rank of a general officer, or appointed 

 *' conful at whatever place he chofe." — He 

 goes on to fay, that, " After his difmiflion from 

 " the confidence of Prince Potemkin, on his 

 way to England, Major Semple laid the mer- 

 chants of Peterlburgh, Narva, Riga, &c- un^ 

 der contribution by a variety of impoftures.** 

 It is the eternal fate of falfhood to contradi<5l 

 itfelf : and though I have given in the preced- 

 ing pages an account of my affair with the Du- 

 chefs of Kingflon, which I challenge earth or 

 hell to contradid, (till, as this worthlefs fcrib- 

 bler, who would tremble at my very fhadow, 

 may gain credit with fome, I will, in one mo- 

 ment, point out his abfurdities. Had I dared 

 to have threatened the Duchefs of Kingfton, as 

 he has afierted, a well-founded complaint (to 

 which my own letter muft have given an irre- 

 liftible weight,) would have procured me a ba- 

 nifhment for life to Siberia ; befides, this quar- 

 rel happened before I joined the Prince at Chcr- 



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