MAJOR SEMPLE LI"SLE, l6l 



day to-day; biit my difficulties encreafed, and 

 amidft a multitude of troubles, the (Inrt was 

 totally forgotten, and I was again going to join 

 the army on the Upper Rhine, once more to 

 try my fortune. I had embarked on board the 

 Rheinhaufen, of Hamburgh, in December 1794; 

 but the ftiip in a tempeft having been drove 

 on fliore at Sheernefs, and having received much 

 damage, I came to town till fhe was repaired. 



On my return, to London, the fon of an old 

 acquaintance, who lent me feme money, thought 

 proper to have me apprehended; his charge 

 againfl me was however laughed at ; but no fooner 

 was the matter known, than perfons who had 

 never feen mc, came to fucarto frauds commit- 

 ted upon them by me. Among the number, a 

 hatter and hofier, in Oxford-Street, fwore 

 pofitively to my having cheated him of a 

 bundle of filk ftockings and two hats. I was; 

 thunder-ftruck to hear fuch an accufatlon, as I 

 . had never feen the man before, and ftill more 

 when he fwore to the 14th of June. On Mr. 

 Bond afking him whether any other perfon could 

 fwear to rhe, he produced his fliopman and an 

 apprentice boy, both of whom fwore pofitively 

 that I was the perfon who had defrauded their 

 mafter. When I heard the time afligned for 

 the tranfa<5lion, I was perfedly eafy as to the 

 event, being confident that I could readily 



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