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of Bois-le~Duc, where the troops were finally difem- 

 barked. 



Per varies cafus, & tot difcrimina rerum, 

 Pervenimus ad Latium." 



■ Oiim meminifle juvabit." 



Thus ended, perhaps, one of the moft extraordinary ex- 

 peditions that was ever undertaken by European troops ; 

 and to which only the exploits of the American Buccaneers 

 have any, and even that a very diftant, refemblance. 



On our arrival I found that Lieutenant Colonel Wef- 

 Urlo, who went fick to Europe, in 1773, was not yet quite 

 recovered. This gentleman now invited me, in company 

 with fome others, to dine with him at the public mefs ; 

 where, while fome Dutch officers complained that the 

 foup was fmoaky, and the beef was tough, we adventurers 

 declared that we never had tailed a more delicious repaft; 

 and at the fame time, while they praifed the ftrawberries, 

 cherries, and other European fruits, we thought them very 

 indiiferent, and greatly inferior to the avogado-pear, the 

 water-melon, and the pine-apple, to which we had been 

 lately accuftomed-— which fhews that every thing in this 

 w^orld is only good or bad by comparifon. 



The following day we were introduced, on the parade, 

 to the Lieutenant Governor, General Hardenbrooki and 

 Ipent the evening at his lady's card affembly, wdiere 1 

 muft acknowledge I was charmed with fome very fweet 

 faces, fredi as the rofe and the lily, while they were no 

 lefs entertained with our grotefque appearance, though 



