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I vvas extremely well treated during my con- 

 finement, an excellent table being kept for me j 

 and my fervants were boarded at a confiderable 

 expence in the town houfe. A table was like- 

 wife kept for Mrs. S. at our hotel in the fame 

 ftyle as we had lived there, of which I need 

 hardly fay, that it was not inelegant. In. 

 the mean time fhe had addreffed a leSjSrcr to 

 Mr. Walpole, his Britannic Majefty's minifter 

 at Munich, in which flie had ftated the cafe 

 fo far as came to her knowledge. 



I had remained in prifon about fix weeks 

 from the time I had wrote to Mr. Dundas, 

 anxioufly expelling fome determination from 

 the court of Great Britain, when Mr. Walpole 

 wrote to me, and tranfmittcd the following ex- 

 trad of a letter from Lord Grenville : *' The 

 ** Britifh government has not demanded, the 

 " arrcrtation of Major Lifle, nor has his Bri- 

 " tifli Majefty any caufe of complaint againft 

 " him.*' 



Baron D'Ompteda had given orders that aW 

 letters addreffed to me fl\ould be flopped at 

 the poft-office ; but this being diredled to me 

 at the town-houfe, went to the magiftrates, 

 who opened and fent it to me in that flate, 

 I at firft refufed to receive it, and afked them 

 if they did not know that it came officially 

 from a Britifli minifter. They replied, that they 



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