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ions, the sordid ideas, with which the ancient 

 govern nent of France had accompanied expedi- 

 lioiis oi that nature, as well as to add something 

 to tijc means more contracted still which it em- 

 ployed for the execution of them ; this project, I 

 say, n(ver quitted my imagination, and I at- 

 temjiteJ every method which conld ensure me a 

 favourahle issue. Having at my disposal hut a 

 very moderate sum, and what would have been 

 scarcely sufficient to accomplish a journey 

 through some of the cantons of Europe, I had 

 adopted the same plan which was my resource in 

 the other expeditions intrusted to me, and which 

 I would not abandon • this was to add something 

 from my private property to what was allowed to 

 me by parsimony, at that time the usual compa- 

 nion of useful enterprises, whilst excess of libe- 

 rality and profusion spread a fatal lustre o-ver the 

 fantasies of luxury, or the attempts of a delusive 

 glory, and frequently of immorality. 



I can take all those to witness, who like myself 

 were sent abroad : not one of them but has had 

 cause of complaint, and has suffered from that 

 spirit of avarice which directed their mission ; 

 there is not one who has not become the victim 

 of his zeal ; there is not one of them who did 

 not receive promises of encouragement before his 

 departure, and who was not left unsupported in 



the 



