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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Beautiful village of Offenbach: bravery of the Hessians: anecdotes of
Mareschal Augerau. Excursion to Darmstadt: minute posts: Darm-
stadt law's delay in Germany: agreeable manners of the Germans :
national antipathies. Return to Francfort: gloomy appearance of
the continent. French army on its march against the Prussians.
Return to London

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CHAPTER I.

A CONFESSION-THE WAR-AN ADOPTION-CONFIDENCE IN FORTUNE SOMETIMES NECESSARY-HATEFUL CHARACTER OF A SPY-A MOTIVE FOR TRAVELLING A MORAL-ANECDOTE OF A ROYAL DESCRIPTION-MISERIES OF A DUTCH GALLIOT-CALVIN AND SERVETUS-RELIGION AND A ROPE'S END-DUTCH ANECDOTE OF FORTITUDE ANECDOTE OF A NEWFOUNDLAND

DOG-APPEARANCE OF

HOLLAND FROM THE SEA-ITS COAST-A DILEMMA-THE MAAS RIVER ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON OF A DUTCH WOMAN-A DISASTER-ROTTERDAM DESCRIBED-LEANING HOUSES.

THE public shall be my confessor.-In the summer of last year, whilst the larger portion of the civilized world was anxiously awaiting the result of our sincere negotiations for a peace, which, alas! the crafty ministers of Napoleon, never intended should be other than mere "romans politiques," the desire of contemplating a

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a country, and a race of people to me entirely new, induced me to trespass upon their shore.

I resolved upon visiting Holland, although in a state of reluctant war with my own country, of a war which yet permitted to her commerce a few stolen embraces with that of England, and which forced many a pursy Dutchman to lament the separation, and in the narcotic atmosphere of his consoling pipe, to wish for better times. In gratifying my wishes, I was guilty of assuming a character respected in every country, as well for its being most wisely and profitably at peace with all the world, as for its integrity and enterprize: I became an American, and by an act of temporary adoption, fixed upon Baltimore in North America as the place of my nativity. A fortunate correspondence in the personal description, except a slight variation, not easily discoverable, relating to my face and age, enabled a friend of mine, a legitimate American, to accommodate me with his passport, which after all I might as well have left behind me, so kindly are the Hollanders disposed towards us.

I was promised by my friend a full description of the principal places in Baltimore, and of the adjacent country, that I might pass unsuspected through a cross ex

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