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the road for BrufTells, in which neighbourhood 

 I expected to find Saxe Coburg. 



In the fliort Tpace of hardly a month had 

 that gallant Prince drawn the immcnfe army 

 of the Convention through all Brabant ; he had 

 already purfued them beyond MojiSy and was 

 preparing to inveft Velenciennes. Thcfe vidorie^ 

 occaiioncd the fall of Dumourier, and indeed 

 fcemcd fo cxtraodinary, that the Convention 

 fent four commifiioners to dired: him to appear 

 before them; and appointed Hournonville, who 

 accompanied thcn'i, to command provifionally 

 in his abfence. 



Dumourier, who forefaw what would be the 

 event of his journey to Paris, and was un- 

 willing to have his condud made the fubjecl of 

 enquiry by thofe that were ignorant of military 

 operations, without delay feized on the com- 

 milHoners, together with his deftined fucceffor, 

 Bournonville, and fent them to Saxe Coburg: 

 I met them at Bruifells, on the evening of the 

 4th April, under the charge of an Auflrian 

 officer, who was conducting them to Maejlrkht. 



From this officer, I learnt that tTie head-quar- 

 ters were at Mons^ whither I immediately re- 

 paired ; and on my arrival, about four o'clock 

 in the morning of the 5th of April, feeing a 

 ccntinel Handing at the gate of the inn where I 

 alighted, I enquired who lodged there. To my 



great 



