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fon : and was it, I will afk, probable, that he would 

 have received me into his favour, intruded me 

 with the organizing of a new corps, and after- 

 wards treated me as will appear hereafter, had I 

 been flained with robbery ? As to my frauds 

 on the merchants, ivhile I zvas in favour^ they 

 might have been poflible ; but, for a man difgra-^ 

 eedy they would have been an utter impoflibility. 

 Belides, I did not pafs through, or near Riga ; 

 for I went from Petersburgh to Narva, where I 

 embarked, and went down the Eaft Sea to Co- 

 penhagen. 



Such pedilent libellers are unfit to be fuffered 

 in the world. Such have been my ruin ; and 

 the author of the above, who, I am informed, 

 is a pried, certainly affords a Ihocking proof 

 of that depravity which perhaps may, if ever I 

 live to meet him, render his gown but an 

 infecure protecftion. If he has any honour, let 

 him contradid his unfounded affertions: but 

 why ihould I afk him ? Had he any honour, he 

 would not have wrote it. One good, however, 

 refults from his fcurrility : I am enabled by 

 thefe anecdotes of myfelf, to judge of the au- 

 thenticity of thofe parts of his hiftory which I 

 have not yet had time to look at. 



Having trained and difciplined my Corficans, 

 I proceeded to the army, and joined the Prince 

 >n the heights above the town of Karafu-bafar, 



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