3^6 THE LIFE OF 



opinion of jne was^ the following anecdote will 

 ihew. juft after I had joined the allied army 

 in the Low Countries, a Britiih General who 

 knew me and my whole hiftory, one day afked 

 the Duke F. of Brunfwick, how he, knowing 

 my difgrace, and that I had juft come from 

 France, could put fuch confidence in me? 

 " Were I a taylor, or a boot-maker," replied 

 the Duke, " I certainly fhould be fomewhat 

 " cautious in giving him credit, but as a foldier, 

 ■l' I know that I might fafely truft him with the 

 •* whole PrufTian army.'* 



Of my fufferings fmce I left the allies I 

 need not fay another word; my readers are fully 

 acquainted with them, and I cannot fubmit to 

 the whining tone of complaint. I have, I truft> 

 amidft them all, aded in fuch a manner as to 

 give my friends no reafon to blufh for me ; my 

 adlions were fuch as I thought my duty re- 

 quired, though I cannot help thinking myfelf 

 fomewhat hardly treated, at being left for near 

 lix months in a prifon, without even the fmalleft 

 allowance for fubliftence. 



I have jiow performed what I promifed, by 

 giving my own hifiory, fuch as it has really 

 been ; and the reader has, I hope, feen, amidft 

 all my errors, fomething that may be commend- 

 ed, much that may be pardoned, and flill more 



that 



