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proving to the world that he did not think her 

 virtue a price by any means, top high for his 

 own pronaotion. Still however her fame re- 

 mained unfpocted ; nor was it till flie was moft 

 cruelly treated by him, till blows were added 

 to infults of every other kind, and till flie was 

 left unproteded in a garrifon town, amidft fe- 

 veral hundred officers, each of whom was ftrivinp; 

 to flvew himfelf as far as polTible the contraft 

 of her hufband, that flie fell. 



7 hat flie fell into my hands, was more owing 

 to the gentlenefs of her own heait than my de- 

 fert. True it is that I left nothing undone that 

 I could devifc ; but though fae fecmed to view 

 my fituation with pity, for 1 was then lick and 

 diftrefTed, and ihc had i'een me in highly ho- 

 nourable circumftances, and the favourite of the 

 great, it v.as long before a tender paiTion took 

 place. 



After feme time I went to Augfourg in Sua- 

 bia, and in my road thither, pafled through Ra- 

 tifbon. Here, amongothers, 1 became acquaint- 

 ed with the Baron D'Ompteda, Hanoverian En- 

 voy to the diet ; I likewife had the pleafure of 

 finding the Count de Goertz, who had, as I be- 

 fore mentioned, given me a letter of recom- 

 mendation, Vvhile Pruffian minificr in Ruffia, 

 to his brother at Potfdam, who was Aid-de- 

 camp 



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