154- THE LIFE OF 



Previous to thefe tranfadlions I had prevailed 

 on Mrs. S. to leave Augfburg; for as there 

 feemed to me no end to the Baron's fli ffling and 

 chicane, I who was no way verfed in fuch prac- 

 tices, was determined to give him an invitation, 

 to finilh the affair a little more in my own way: 

 I was therefore anxious to remove her from a 

 probable fcene of dillrefs. The letters I fent 

 him certainly contained hints plain enough to 

 betaken; as he, however, feemed very dull o^ 

 appreheniion, I determined to fpeak ftill plain- 

 er; but as I found him equally infenfible to the 

 calls of honour, or the flings of infult, and that 

 he flirunk behind his diplomacy^ I left him, fully 

 fatisfied, that his courage, his honefty, his ve- 

 racity and his modefty were all upon a par. 



As it was evidently in vain to feek any fatis- 

 facftion from fuch a character, beyond what I 

 had already received, through the decree of the 

 Senate of Augfburg, I determined to give up 

 the purfuit ; I therefore fet out for the Low 

 Countries, leaving the Baron, fufficiently in- 

 cumbered by the expences his folly had incur- 

 red, an obje6t of fcorn and ridicule to all who 

 knew the flory. 



At Manbeim^ I found it neceffary to flop a 

 few days; during which, as I was not travelling 

 with my ufual fplendor, I remained incog. On 

 my arrival in that town, I was very much fur- 



prifed 



