VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 25J 



** family of the barons dt BenyowCki, I 

 ferved in quality of general in the armies 

 ** of the emprefs '>ur fovereign. My father 

 was of the houfe of Aladar XIIL and my 

 ** mother of that of the counts de Rerary ; 

 ** I am confequently a Pole by extraQion. 



In 1 765, the kin^* of Poland, ele£tor of 

 ** Saxony, being dead, ^nd his kingdom in- 

 ** vaded, I went to V^arfaw, to fupport 

 ** the interefts of a pr nee, in the midft of 

 ** troubkj'and of the fi bverfion of celebrated 

 " ftatutes, and of the firft members of the 

 *' ftate* The grandees of the kingdom had 

 " been arrefted by a fecret order j and as I 

 ** was of the party of the prince bifliop 

 ** of Cracaw, and other magnates, a re- 

 " queft was made that I might be arrefted 

 by prince Repnin, the Ruffian minifter. 

 ** Informed of this defign, and not knowing 

 ** what to do, I repaired, as fpeedily a:s I 

 ** could, to a friend of prince Radziwil, 



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