imagined he recognised her features in those of her former
servant, and gave credit to the report which prevailed, that
she was the Duke of Wolfenbuttle's daughter, whom the Czarowitz
had married, and who, finding herself treated with great
cruelty by her husband, caused it to be circulated that she had
died, while she fled to a distant seat, driven by the blows he
had inflicted on her--that the Czarowitz had given orders for
her private burial, and she had travelled incog. into France,
and had taken passage at L'Orient, in one of the company's
ships, among the German settlers.

"Her story gained credit, and the officer married her. After a
long residence in Louisiana, she followed him to Paris and the
Island of Bourbon, where he had a commission of major. Having
become a widow in 1754, she returned to Paris, with a daughter,
and went thence to Brunswick, when her imposture was
discovered; charity was bestowed on her, but she was ordered to
leave the country. She died in 1771, at Paris, in great
poverty.

"A similar imposition was practised for a while with
considerable success, in the southern British provinces, a few
years before the declaration of their independence. A female,
driven for her misconduct from the service of a maid of honour
of Princess Matilda, sister to George the Third, was convicted
at the Old Bailey, and transported to Maryland. She effected
her escape before the expiration of her time, and travelled
through Virginia and both the Carolinas, personating the
princess, and levying contributions on the credulity of
planters and merchants; and even some of the king's officers.
She was at last arrested in Charleston, prosecuted, and
whipped."

When we read the account of New-Orleans, a century ago, we can hardly
credit that it is the same New-Orleans which we now know.--

"New-Orleans, (according to his account,) consisted at that
time of one hundred cabins, placed without much order, a large
wooden warehouse, two or three dwelling houses, that would not
have adorned a village, and a miserable storehouse, which had
been at first occupied as a chapel; a shed being now used for
this purpose. Its population did not exceed two hundred
persons."

In the enormous increase of population and wealth which this highly
favoured c