MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. i.^'J 



camp to Frederic the Great, when 1 vifited that 

 celebrated garrifon in the end of the year T784, 



The leverity of my indifpolition had delayed 

 me many weeks upon the road, and m'y expences 

 had already far exceeded my calculation; the 

 trijBing fum too, which was yet due to me from 

 the army, was by my own appointment to be 

 remitted to me, at the place of my deftination: 

 I therefore at leaving Ratijhon^ boriowed 32 

 louis of the Baron D'Ompteda, for which I 

 gave hin) my bill. 



I conunued m^ journey, and reached Augjhnr^ 

 without any material occurrence; but i had not 

 been many days there, before I met with an ad- 

 venture difagreeable enough for the time. As 

 foon as I was fixed at my hotel, I communica- 

 ted to the Right Honourable H. Dundas a plan 

 which I had formed, and which though a ver/ 

 bold one had been honoured with the approba- 

 tion of feveral diftinguiOTed military characters. 

 For its execution I had found near three hun- 

 dred volunteers; the majority of them had been 

 officers under Louis XVI. ...nd all afl<ed no other 

 reward than the fandlion of the Britiih govern- 

 ment, and to proceed to the attack under my 

 diredlion. I was now fo far recovered, that I 

 felt myfelf ready to bleed again; and I once 

 more ventured to cherifli hopes, that I might be 

 iuffered to profit by my exertions without fur- 

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