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there are many Jews in the place , and no doubt some Christians of avaricious dispositions . The situation of the town is delightful in the -winter the overflowing of the Meuse , which passes directly through the town , occasions the greater part of an extensive plain to be covered with water : but in the summer , when the river is confined within its
banks , and its winding course is seen from the neighbouring hills , blushing with the fruit of the vine , it is a highly interesting spot . The army of " Great Brunswick ' s Duke" here partook of a short and treacherous banquet - , for arriving on their expeditious march to ^ Paris , amongst the vineyards when the grapes were not fully ripe , they filled themselves with such greediness , that they were speedily seized with a dysentery , and fell like leaves in autumn . ' *
Having obtained a release through the intercession of his friends , amongst whom was a young widow of two-and-tvventy the daughter of the well-known Jean de Brie , whose life was almost miraculously saved when the other deputies to the congres § of Rastadt were murdered by the Austrian troops , the author returned to Mons . But finding it difficult in the present state of France to carry on a plan of education , or to establish a profitable ngianufacture at Mons or elsewhere , he resolved
upon attempting to escape from the country . The attempt might have been hazardous , but he was already near the frontiers , and in Holland there would be a difficulty of recovering
him . He spoke French , besides , perfectly well , and among the inhabitants of the Low Countries might pass for a Frenchman .. Having previously sent off his family he quitted Mons about the close of day , and travelled without interruption till he arrived within two leagues of the Dutch Republic , when be
u went in to sleep at a public-house on the road side / ' where he was in great danger of being discovered b ^ a gendarme who lived at the next door , and usually spent his evenings in this house . He " went early to bed , an 4 started again as soon as it was li ght / ' and thus passed undiscovered .
Every thing promised kindly , and only one more house was to be passed , when , to his great surprise and vexation , he was stopped by an officer of the customs , wha asked who he was , and whether he was ( the ) bearer of a transport . A more particular examination ensued , he was betrayed by his papers , and ordered to be secured . "
In the hands of the officers he was stripped of all his property , the produce of the sale of his effects . Being taken before a justice of peace , he was ordered to be conducted l ) ack to Mons by the gendarmerie . Not a single Louis was restored to him to defray his expences on the road ; his hopes Fell , and " the vinecovered hills and gay regions of France" appeared to iiiuj sad and joyless . He was guarded by two men , who took him back to the place where he had slept the night before . One of his guards became listless through fatigue and sleepiness , the other
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Worsley ^ s State of France . J 01
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/45/
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