earned, with infinite concern, that his intelligence had not been
at all exaggerated; and his sorrow was inexpressible to find a person
endowed with so many other noble and amiable qualities, seduced into
an indiscretion, that of necessity ruined the whole plan which had been
concerted between them for their mutual happiness. She made several
attempts, by letters and interviews, to palliate her conduct, and soften
him into a reconciliation; but his honour being concerned, he remained
deaf to all her entreaties and proposals. Nevertheless, I have often
heard him say, that he could not help loving her, and revering the
memory of a person to whose generosity and goodness he owed his fortune,
and one whose foibles were overbalanced by a thousand good qualities. He
often insisted on making restitution; but far from complying with that
proposal, she afterwards often endeavoured to lay him under yet greater
obligations of the same kind, and importuned him with the warmest
solicitations to renew their former correspondence, which he as often
declined.

"M-- took this instance of the inconstancy of the sex so much to
heart, that he had almost resolved for the future to keep clear of all
engagements for life, and returned to Paris, in order to dissipate his
anxiety, where he hired an apartment in one of the academies, in the
exercises whereof he took singular delight. During his residence at
this place, he had the good fortune to ingratiate himself with a
great general, a descendant of one of the most ancient and illustrious
families in France; having attracted his notice by some remarks he had
written on Folard's Polybius, which were accidentally shown to that
great man by one of his aides-de-camp, who was a particular friend of
M--. The favour he had thus acquired was strengthened by his assiduities
and attention. Upon his return to London, he sent some of Handel's
newest compositions to the prince, who was particularly fond of that
gentleman's productions, together with Clark's edition of Caesar; and,
in the spring of the same year, before the French army took the field,
he was honoured with a most obliging letter from the prince, inviting
him to come over, if he wanted to see the operations of the campaign,
and desiring he would give himself no trouble about his equipage.

"M-- having still some remains of a military disposition, and this to be
a more favourable opportunity than any he should ever meet with again,
readily em