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That night I remained at the hotel, under a 

 guard of thirty-fix men; butasfuch a croud oc- 

 caiioned much confufion and trouble in the 

 houfe, and 1 was unwilling to put the mafter to 

 fuch inconvenience, I was next morning, at my 

 own requefi, rernoved to the town-houfc. Two 

 ycry comfortable apartments were prepared for 

 jnej an officer attended me, and there wcrecon- 

 jfTantly four foldlcr? in the anti-chamber; I was 

 likewife refufed the ufe of pen and ink, and my 

 papers were all fcized ; but Mrs. S. was per- 

 mitted to come to me every morning, and re- 

 main till evening, bat always in the prefence pf 

 the officer. 



The moment of my arrefr, an exprefs had 

 been fent off to Rarifbon, to Baron D'Omptcda, 

 and we waited v.ith fome impatience the charges 

 he was to exhibit againft me. In a few days the 

 Baron arrived, and came to the very hotel w^here 

 I had lodged, and where Mrs. S. ftill continued 

 to refidc; he found fault in a very high tone, at 

 the permilllon fne had to vifit me, myfierioufiy 

 pretending that my crimes were of great magni- 

 tude, but l^ill without condefccnding to parti- 

 cularize even one. 



Jugjhurg being a free imperial city, governed 

 by its own fenace, in whom the fovereignty re- 

 fides, he was obliged to give fome fort of account 

 of the authority under which he demanded me 



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