MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. I1'5 



The Stadtholder mod kindly did every thing 

 to render me comfortable after this immenfe 

 exertion ; for though he himfelf fct out to vifit 

 fome forts the fame afternoon, he recommended 

 me to remain at the Hague to recover my 

 flrength, offering to anfwer to the Duke of 

 Brunfwic for my abfence for three days. 



I remained only two days, when I returned 

 to the Duke, by whom I was employed on 

 different miilions, chiefly to reconnoitre the 

 enemies pofitions. The Duke of York had left 

 Dortrechty and was at that time approaching 

 Antwerp by water, and the Prince of Orange 

 with a fmall Dutch army was marching upon 

 Breda, ftill in the poffefficn of the French. 



About the end of March, or ifh of April, 

 he fummoned it to furrender, and the garrifon 

 entered into a capitulation for that purpofe; 

 at this time the Duke Frederic fent me to Saxe 

 Coburg, to know how affairs were going on 

 in that quarter he commanded : me to pafs by 

 the way of the Dutch army lying before Breda, 

 to receive the orders of the Hereditary Prince 

 of Orange, who requefted me to go to Bergen^ 

 op'Zooniy to the Duke of York who was then, 

 at that harbour on his way to Antwerp; and to 

 inform his Royal Flighnefs that Breda had capi- 

 tulated : I obeyed his diredioris, and then took 



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