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that the bare pay was too fmall for my turn of 

 mind, and that France then deprived of her befl: 

 officers wanted men of tried fkill and experience, 

 and therefore held out a fairer profped to me. I 

 yielded to thefe reafons and went to France, 

 where I remained fome time an inadtive fpecfta- 

 tor, till want of fubliftence forced me to apply 

 to the Committee of War for employment. But 

 already difgufted by their villainous proceedings, 

 I declined accepting any fituation, though my 

 advice was frequently taken refpeding the new 

 corps they were forming. Curious however to 

 fee the event of the King's trial, I determined 

 to remain on the fpot until that was over, and 

 was accordingly obliged to conceal my fenti- 

 mcnts. 



I had now formed a ftrid intimacy with 

 General Beruyer, Commandant of the interior, 

 a fituation often miftaken for that of Comman- 

 dant of Paris, whereas in truth they are very 

 diifcrent: the General has the command of all 

 the troops in the interior, but the Commandant 

 of Paris has only the command of the national 

 guard in that city ; the former, Beruyer, was an 

 old and excellent foldier ; the latter, Santerre, 

 was a brewer. With Beruyer I went upon all 

 his little excurfions. I was likewife very inti- 

 mate with Pache, the minifler of war, Pethion^ 



Roland 



