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till the year 1782, when the EQ:iperor of Germany hav- 

 ing retaken the barrier towns from the States of Holland, 

 General Stuart's regiment was the laft that evacuated the 

 city of Namur^ and on the fame day the Imperial troops 

 marched in to take poffeffion : after which the Emperor 

 ordered, in the year 1783, all the fortifications to be de- 

 raoUQied. Soon after this, the Scotch brigade, the pri- 

 vates of which now confifted of all nations, was natura- 

 lized by the States of Holland, that is, formed into three 

 Dutch regiments, on account of the war with Great Bri- 

 tain ; and this circumftance induced myfelf and moft of 

 the principal officers immediately to refign — as we refufed 

 to ferve againft our King and Country. 



Having thus left the Dutch fervice, on which day, by 

 the Prince of Orange, I was complimented with the rank 

 of lieutenant-colonel, the above gentlemen went to Eng- 

 land, where, in confequence of their loyalty, they were 

 taken under his Britannic Majelly's protection ; and, 

 on the i8th of June, eleven of them, of which number 

 I was fo happy to make one, were, by General Conway^ 

 introduced at St. James's, where we had the honour to 

 kifs his Majefty's hand. 



On the 27th of the fame month, the half-pay was voted 

 for them all by the Britifh Houfe of Commons, accord- 

 ing to the rank in which each individual had aSiually 

 Jewed while abroad *. — But, that the reader may have 



* The above gentlemen, who were vival of that old and honourable corps in 

 looked upon as being the real reprefenta- Britain, which was fince re-embodied un- 

 lives of his Majefty's Scotch brigade, had der the command of General Francis 

 their loyalty further rewarded by the re- Dundas, and fent to garrifon Gibraltar. 



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