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but even here I was told I was by no means 

 fafe. However both my horfes and myfelf being 

 much fatigued, I went to fleep in a part where 

 I thought I fhould not be readily found: my 

 horfes were likewife difpofed of fo as not to be 

 jeaiily come at, and I had direded my fervant^^ 

 in cafe of alarm, to turn them adrift. After a 

 . few hours reft, but before day-light, I again 

 fet forward, and without any interruption, ar- 

 rived at Bois le Due the fame forenoon. 



The whole appearance of this place indicated 

 nothing but the profoundeft peace; the Gover- 

 nor, the reigning Prince of Hefle Phillipfthal, 

 and the Commandant, Major General Douglas, 

 feemed unconfcious of the prefence of war. The 

 French army, which under Dumourierhad inva- 

 ded the empire, had juft been defeated near Aix 

 la Chapelle, by Saxe Coburgh, and the Duke 

 Frederic of Brunfwick, the former of whom 

 purfued the flying army into the country, be- 

 tween Maeftricht and Leige^ while the latter with 

 his ufual promptnefs, marched immediately 

 from Aix into HoUaqd by the way of the Rure, 

 and was then advancing towards Bois le Due, to 

 prevent it from falling into the hands of the 

 enemy, an event which the garrifon did not 

 feem to apprehend, though they were not pre- 

 pared to refifl:, and though a large army of the 



French 



