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Cution, remained with me that night till I wrote 

 an account of the fhocking bufinefs, with which 

 he and his fon immediately fet OjfF for London. 



The following evening, the theatres Hill con- 

 tinuing empty, the traiterous Orleans hired a 

 mob to fill them^ and to give to the place the 

 air of chearfulnefs J but all was in vain; an 

 evident gloom overfpread the once gay metro- 

 polis, nor was it till feveral days had elapfed 

 that joy re-appeared. 



Difgufted to the high^ft degree with the ex- 

 ceiTes I daily witnefTed in a country to which I 

 had gone merely by the advice of my friends^ 

 and expelling war to be declared by my own 

 fovereign, I determined to join the allies. I 

 therefore addrelTed the Convention, telling them 

 that my circumftances had induced me to offer 

 them my fervices when they were at peace with^ 

 and receiving fuccours from my country ; but 

 that as firmly devoted to Britain as Frenchmen 

 were to France, and perceiving war* at the eve 



* I was fo far right in my prediction, that before I had time 

 to leave Paris, the Convention declared war, (to ufe their owa 

 Wordsjj *' Non contre le peuple Anglais et Hollandois^ mais 

 *' contre les tirans George et le Stathouder." Neverthelefs, 

 they commenced by waging war againft the people, for they 

 immediately laid an embargo on all Britifh veffels, feized all 

 Britifh propert}"- ia France, and in every way harrafled and im- 

 prifoned fuch of his Majefty's fubjeds as had not left the 

 country, 



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