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was enjoying his pipe in the open air ; he made hi $ escape otjt of a back door , ran across the garden , and aided by the
obscurity of the night was soon out of the reach of discovery . For three hours he wandered without resting , till fearing that he might have gone b £ ck into France instead of havin g got into Holland , he stopped , " with his clothes soaked in t # e moisture of his body / ' under a shed near a small house . After
losing himself in sleep for a few minutes , he knocked at the door of the cottage , and not being understood by the
cottager was led by him to a farmer , who shewed him , " to his great surprise and disappointment , that he was within two fields of the spot from which he had started , and within sight of the
gendarme s house I The farmer mistook him tor a smuggler , disguised him in a blue smock-frock , and conducted him in safety to Lomond , the first village in Holland . Even here he was in imminent danger of being arrested again , but the kindness of the Dutch people delivered and protected him . He travelled through Holland to Etnbden , and from thence passed over to Gravesend , arriving in England just a month after he had left Mons . His reflection upon regaining his native country is
natural , and may serve to instruct those Englishmen who , untaught by the history of the last fifteen years , still persist in believing that France is an Utopian Paradise , and that she is as free as powerful . " Such is the history of his wrongs , sustained from a government in which there once seemed reason to place a confidence , but which has
been actuated by a principle of which even the despotic sultan might be ashamed . Let his countrymen take warning by the foregoing lesson , and recollect that although they must consent to some privations in order to support the government that protects them , tnese are less grievous than the risks to which emigration gives birth , and that they cannot calculate upon the consequences of unsettling a family that have the means of support by their industry **'
Having narrated his personal history , Mr . Worsley proceeds to the object of his work , namely , to give an Account pf the State of France . It will be remembered , bowevel ^ by the reader , that his observations apply more particularly to the Belgic Provinces , and it is indisputable that the extreme parts
of a large empire are never so well governed as those which are more central , and that in time of war the frontiers of a kingdom labour undej ^ inconveniences and suffer oppressions which in the heart of that same kingdom are not experienced or heard of . Belgium , besides , has been so lately engrafted upon France that the two countries can scarcely yet be said to be identified ^ Conquered provinces are usually tenacious , even to
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102 Worsley s State of France .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/46/
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