You are therefore once more a free man, and I have promised for you that you will be a good boy in future, and remember what you owe to the lenity of Government.

Thus you see MY PRINCE can be as generous as YOURS.

I do not pretend, indeed, that he confers a favour with all the foreign graces and compliments of your Chevalier errant; but he has a plain English manner, and the evident reluctance with which he grants your request, indicates the sacrifice which he makes of his own inclination to your wishes.

My friend, the adjutant-general, has procured me a duplicate of the Baron's protection (the original being in Major Melville's possession), which I send to you, as I know that if you can find him you will have pleasure in being the first to communicate the joyful intelligence.

He will of course repair to the Duchran without loss of time, there to ride quarantine for a few weeks.