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the same zest the conversation of yesterday. When at last the 

 traveller took leave, the Prince engaged him to pass through 

 Munich, and gave him a friendly letter to the Elector of Ba- 

 varia, his uncle. 



" The season was advanced, and he was in haste to reach 

 Vienna. He had purposed to stop at Munich two or three 

 days at most ; but he passed there five days, and then did not 

 leave but with regret a city where the tokens of the regard of 

 the Sovereign and the attentions of different classes of society 

 were extended to him with that frank cordiality which so emi- 

 nently distinguishes the Bavarian nation. He received equally 

 at Vienna the most flattering welcome, and was presented at 

 court, and mingled in the first society. There- he passed a 

 part of the winter, and, learning that the war against the Turks 

 was not to be carried on, he yielded to the attractive memories 

 of Munich, and, passing through Venice, where he stopped some 

 weeks, and by the Tyrol, he returned to Brompton by the end 

 of the winter of 1784." 



There is an ingredient from the imagination, or from 

 a confused memory, or, it may be, from the conviviality 

 of a banquet in the quarters of military officers, in a 

 part of the relation thus made by Pictet. That any 

 of the French or Bavarian officers whom Colonel 

 Thompson met at Strasburg had been directly op- 

 posed to him in any of the same actions in our Revo- 

 lutionary War, is an assumption for which I can find no 

 grounds in matters of fact. There is some confusion 

 likewise in such documentary and historical references 

 as we have to the individual whose attention on parade 

 is said to have been first drawn to Colonel Thompson. 



Dr. Samuel Abbot Green, of Boston, while walking 

 upon a quay in Paris, in 1867, noticed in a second- 

 hand book-stall a manuscript journal purporting to 

 have been written by " Comte G. de Deux Ponts." It 

 had been well preserved and handsomely ornamented, 



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