the General of that name. With this person I
had some acquaintance, having met with him be-
fore. In travelling along, he gave me a little
account of a visit he paid to Paris, at the time of
the Revolution. Amongst other things, he men-
tioned to me the extreme indifference with which
many poor men paid the forfeit of their lives,
during that awful period. At one time he accom-
panied the American Ambassador, to a place whence
he had a near view of a number of these victims, as
they were about to be executed; and where he was
so near that he could hear their conversation; which
was as light and frivolous as of men engaged in
the common or ordinary concerns of life. One of
them remarked to his companion, that he would
take care that he would have nothing to do with
Revolutions in the next world, seeing he had met
with so poor a reward in this.

Several of our companions in the stage were
French people, and amongst them a Catholic
priest. There was something singular in this
man's conduct and conversation. Sometimes he
appeared very devoutly reading a book of devo-
tion; and, in a moment, he would shut up his book
and begin singing with the greatest gaity, and
talking nonsense to his female companions. In
the afternoon I arrived at Baltimore