r’ 
1797-] 
Highland fathion, and finely ornamented with 
arms andemblems of war, from the Chamber 
of Commerce, in Glafgow, accompanied with a 
refpéctful complimentary letter, from their 
chairman; which prefents were conveyed 
through the channel of general Melville, as be- 
inz well known to have enjoyed the friend- 
fhip and efteem of the Marquis de Bouille, 
ever fince 1767, when from Martinico he had 
paid a vifit to the General, at Grenada; then 
his Majefty’s governor in chief of the ceded 
iflands. 
What has been repo:ted with regard to that 
very fword, which was thus prefented, having 
been rudely fnatched by a cuftsm-houfe officer 
from the Marquis’s fide, on h’s returning to 
England, in December, 1792, with his indig- 
nation on that account, often fince expretied 
by him, now appears to have been greatly mif- 
seprefented; for the demanding of it from him 
was at Harwich, in confequence of an order 
of government to difarm any foreigners then 
Janding there, and happened without any incivi- 
lity ; and an order was fpeedily difpatched 
‘from London, for the fword being reftored to 
lum. 
» Onithe fubject of the Marquis’s public con- 
@uct, after the beginning of the revolution in 
France, particularly with regard to the part he 
acted refpecting the fecret departure of Louis 
XVI. for Montmedi, of which he'was not the 
advifer, much lefs the projector ; and on the 
confequences of ‘that event, we have judged it 
to be moft proper t» refer our readers to an au- 
thentic detail, which we learn, from refpectable 
authorities, is about to be publithed, in a new 
and interefting work on French events, in that 
period, 
enn SS 
ORIGINAL LETTER, 
ACCOUNT OF WILLIAM. MorRGAN, 
A QUAKER; IN A LenTeR FROM 
SARAH BOCKET TO A FRIEND. 
a 
Staines, May 11, 1747. 
ESTEEMED FRIEND, 
RETURN thee thanks for the perufal of 
thefe four volumes of Plutarch, and beg the 
favour-of the other four, with that wrote by 
Mr. Rowe; and, if it be not too much trouble, 
Rifhop Burnett’s hiftory of his owa times. I 
fhould have fent thefe fooner, but fince Chiit- 
mais we have had a flood, that the rowbarge 
could not go to London for fome time, and then 
the matter of the barge broke, which made me 
defer fending untill 1 thought 1 mightdo itwith 
fafety. J imtend to order the y,aterman to cail 
at thy ‘houfe in about two weeks for the above. 
Ii it does not fuit thy leifure pleafe to appoint 
him any further time. When 1 was at thy 
houfe I was talking about Wm. Morgan.once a 
clergyman but now a quaker, that went with a 
meflage to the king of Pruffia, thou defized me 
te enquire where he lodged, I did fo, but could 
Original Letter—Anecdotes of J¥. Morgan, a Quaker. 
not hear, only that he was going to Holland ta 
ftudy phy‘c, he did fo, “pafled examination 
wrote a thefis and commenced graduate. He 
was introduced unto the Duke in Holland, and 
had a long converfation with him. The Duke 
atked him what he intended to-do now he had 
throwa off the gown? Wm. Morgan told the 
Duke he intended to prattice phyfic, and that 
that he had wrote his theiis, and who do you 
intend to dedicate itto? fays the Duke. To the 
Duke, if he pleafes to give me leave. Thien be 
fure you dont flatter me, and tell me what you 
fay intend to fay unto’ me. The Duke offered 
him money, but he modeftly refufed, and told 
the Duke he could not accept of any thing out 
of his own way. Then replies the Duke, you 
fhall be my phyfician and attend me in the 
army. But fays Wm. Morgan I muft firf con. 
fult my friends in London, if I-can obtain their 
confent, I will obey the Duke’s commands, for 
I fhall be unwilling to break with the fociety 
for any temporal confideration. Friend Morgan 
has liberty from his friends to attend the Duke. 
I prefume he is gone again to Holland to take 
his degrees as licentiate and wait on the Duke, 
though he apprehends it to be a po of great 
danger, and doubts whether he fhall fee us any 
more. Yet he confides and trufts in that gra- 
cious providence that has preferved his life thro” 
‘fo many diftreffes and wants, and J hope will 
ftill protect the Duke and him in the day of 
battle when death and deftrucion are flying 
round. About 2 month or fix weeks ago friend 
Morgan called to vifit a friend in this town as 
he went to vifit his brocher at Winchefter whe 
is a clergyman and has preferments in the church 
to the value of 800 per annum. He hada 
meeting here, fo by that means I had the plea- 
fure of hearing him preach and pray: a very 
good preacher we think him to be, he fpent 
one evening at our houfe, and very agreeable 
company he is. He has the advantage of being 
very perfonable, of a fair beautiful and fweet 
afpect, very affable and free in converfation, 
much of a gentleman, one who I prefume did 
great honour to his religion and country in fv- 
reign nations. He gave us a fhort relation of 
his travels in an elegant ftile and with great 
freedom. ‘He fays the king of Pruffia took him 
fora fpy, and aiked many queftions about his 
uncle king George and if he did not f-nd him, 
and behaved exceedingly rough, and is a very 
fierce man and the queen mother a very fterm 
woman. The king often fent one of his mi- 
nifteis to his lodzings to examine him very 
clofe. Friend Morgan was talen prifoner at 
Prague while in the hands of the French and 
ufed very cruelly almo% to the lofs of his life 
by the Jefuits; when Marfhal Belleifle heard of 
it he was fo kind as to fend a hufzar, and took 
hin away by force. I think it was the fecond 
time of his going into Germany, that he had 
ah audience of the Emprefs Queen. She afked 
him many queftions concerning the principles 
of his religion, and fpoke with great judgment 
and gocd :enfe, and highly commended the 
charity of the Quakers, and thoughi it great 
z pity 
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