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faid, of thofc who were concerned in the affair of the un* 

 happy Du Roulc. 



PoKCET, having loft all credit, retired from Paris in dif- 

 grace» without any further gratification than that which he 

 at lirft received. He carried to Cairo with him, however, a 

 gold watch and a miiTor, which he was to deliver to the 

 conful as a prefent to his companion Murat^ whofe fublift- 

 ence was immediately flopped, and liberty given him to re,->- 

 turn, to Ethiopia^ 



Nor did Maillet's folly ftop here. After giving poor Mu- 

 rat all the ill-ufage a man could- poffibly fuffer, he entruft- 

 cd him with a Jefuit * whom he was to introduce into E- 

 thiopia, where he would certainly have loft his life had not. 

 the bad- treatment he received by the way made him return: 

 before he arrived at Mafuah. 



This firft mifcarriage feemed only to have confirmed the 

 Jcfuits more in their refolution of producing an embafly.. 

 But it now took another form* PoUticians and ftatefmen 

 became the aiflors in it, without a thought having been be- 

 llowed to diminifli the enemies of the fcheme, or render 

 their endeavours ufelefs, by a, fuperior knowledge of the- 

 manners and cuftoms of the country through which this; 

 ernbaliy was to pafs.. 



No adventurer, or vagrant phyfician, (like Poncet) was; 

 to be employed in this fecond emba/Ty. A miniftcr vcrfcd: 



ia. 



* Faiixei Dernatj a Frenchraoni 



