MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 2^ 



*' like him by your fide, and a friend like me 

 ** wherever you go." 



Next day an cxprcfs arrived from the Duchefs 

 for the Prince, \vith heavy complainis 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 cn-^ 

 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 ftory, that it became thefubjedl 

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

 mortification, he made me not only read it to 

 him, but anfvver it forthwith; which I did in 

 French to the following effed, fometime in the 

 month of July 17S3: '' Madam, I had the ho- 

 ** nour to receive your difpatch from his High- 

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

 ** and am, by his Plighnefs's commands, 

 '* Madam, &c. 8>zc. &c." 



Cherfon is a town which the Emprefs built 

 on the river Nieper feveral leagues above its 

 mouth, with the view of fornnjng 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 Corfes Expuljes \ 

 under which name perfons of gill nations alTem- 

 bled at her rendezvous, and were tranfported by 

 the way of the Dardenelles and Black Sea to 



C 4 Cherfoij. 



