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grenadiers, I lliall be happy ! will wait the 

 hour of my enlargement with refignation, and, 

 when it comes, fly to your ftandard. 



** With anxious impatience I attend the fen- 

 tence which your Majefty will pronounce. On 

 it depends my fate ! 



'* I have the honour to be. Sire, with all that 

 enthuiiafm which fo great a Captain as your Ma- 

 jefty can infpire in the foul of a foldier. 



Sept. 1790* 



" Your Majesty's 

 " Moft humble, 

 ** Faithful and devoted fervant.'* 



I remained a prifoner in the ftate apartments 

 of Newgate a confiderable while. I was then 

 fent to Woolwich, where, after fome time, I 

 received his Majefty's pardon, on condition of 

 going abroad. 



The encouragement I had formerly received 

 on the Continent, and the protedlion that I had 

 fome reafon to exped from the King of Pruflia, 

 inclined me to go to Germany ; but my friends 

 advifed me rather to go to France, then at pea<"e 

 with, and receiving fupplies of every thing from 

 England. They very properly fupporteJ .ncir 

 arguments by truths which I could not deny ; 



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