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but the greateft difRculty lay in palling the cor- 

 don formed by the army : I therefore applied to 

 Prince Louis d'Aremberg, who accompanied 

 ^e to the quarters of General Moreton, then 

 commanding at Bruflells. 



From Moreton I folicited a paflport, which 

 he readily gave me, but informed me at the 

 fame time that his pafs was but of little ufe, 

 for that an Englifh General, to whom he had giVbn 

 one fome little time before, had, neverthelefs, 

 been detained at Oftend. Upon confulting with 

 D'Aremberg it was refolved, that I Ihould pur- 

 chafe a couple of horfes, and endeavour to go 

 round Antwerp, a« Dumourier, with a large 

 body of his army, was then there ; and I was 

 well known to that General and moft of his 

 officers. 



I immediately purchafed the horfes, and fet 

 out in a few hours from my arrival, contriving 

 to reach Antwerp a little after the gates were 

 fhut. This precaution was neceflary, to furnifh 

 me a pretext for flopping in the village; for 

 had I arrived there before the gates were lock- 

 ed, I muft either have gone in, or have made 

 myfelf the objed of fufpicion, by remaining at a 

 paltry cabaret when I might have been elegantly 

 accommodated in the town. To have reached the 

 gates any confiderable time after their being 

 fhut would have excited as much fufpicion as 



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