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prifed to find a guard placed upon me ; I natu- 

 rally enquired what was the reafon of fuch treat- 

 ment, and was told that it was in confequence of 

 the condud of the Dutch and Britifli recruiting 

 officers. Thefe gentlemen ufed, it feems, to 

 hold out fuch encouragement to recruits, as the 

 Bavarian troops could not withftand, but ufed 

 frequently to defert to enlift with them ; a gene- 

 ral order had therefore been given to place a 

 guard on every officer of either country that 

 inight arrive there. 



I immediately fent a melTage to the Fort 

 Major, to inform him, that if he had looked at 

 the report I made at the gate of the town on 

 my entering, he would have feen that I could 

 be by no means looked upon as a recruiter ; I 

 concluded with faying, that fuch being the cafe, 

 I expecfled my guard to be inflantly removed. 

 As he did not think proper to fend me any im- 

 mediate anfwer, I determined at once to be re- 

 venged on him, and to remove this obnoxious 

 attendant; entering therefore into converfation 

 with my centinel, I prevailed upon him to de- 

 fert, to which indeed he made very little objec- 

 tion, except the difficulty of getting away. This 

 was eafily obviated, by putting him into my 

 own chaife, in which I fent him to the adjacent 

 town of IForms, where an officer of my acquaint- 

 ance lay, recruiting for the regiment of Salm 



then 



