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offer comments upon the profpedT: of (baring 

 prize-money from fuch a fource. 



The ufua! difficulty refpedi'ng language 

 would have occurred to us, from the manager 

 not knowing either Englifh or French ; but, 

 fortunately, a gentleman I had met at Mynheer 

 Ongre's, happened to be at Daargradt, who, 

 with great kindnefs, undertook the troubie- 

 ibme tafk of interpreter ; and procured for us 

 the heft accommodations of the houfe, as well 

 for the evening, as throughout the night. 



An old Hollander, who was living in a 

 fort of quiet retirement upon the eftate, was 

 feized with fad feelings of alarm at our arrival. 

 Seeing a party of Englifh officers ftep out of 

 the boat, fo very unexpectedly, he could not 

 dived his mind of the font intent of danger 

 which attaches to the approach of an enemy. 

 He had long been an active fupporter of the 

 high democratic party in the fe ven United Pro- 

 vinces ; and, on account of the Mate of politics, 

 had fled from his country in the year 1787, 

 when the Duke of Bruniwick marched a Pruf- 

 iian army into Holland to reftore the rights and 

 privileges of the Stadthoider. A confcious 

 feeling renewed all the poor old man's terrors, 



