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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1826 edition. Extrait: ...it, and you may be sure we will do every thing in our power, and, I hope, yet we may get clear, in which case, as I have already said ten times, you shall see what you shall see. I have now finished the best and the worst that can happen us, but there remains a third way, which is, that it may happen that we should be beaten back, in spite of all our efforts, and that I should, so, return in safety to France. In that case, I think, I shall be able to retain my pay, as Adjutant General, which, as things go here, will be a vast addition to our little fortune; I will then buy or hire a small farm, within a few miles of Paris, and devote the remainder of my life to making you happy and educating our children. This last way, though not so bad as my first supposition, is yet just now to me a very gloomy prospect, for the reasons I am about to mention. Since my arrival in France I have had no communication whatsoever with Ireland, but I have seen the English papers pretty regularly, by favor of Madgett, who is in the Bureau of the Minister for Foreign Affairs; I had, in consequence, the mortification to read, in May last, that John Kcogh was arrested, by order of Government, with Sir Edward Bellew, (a great aristocrat, ) and several others; however, I watched the papers carefully, for some months after, and as I saw no further mention of the business, I am in very great hopes that they were immediately released, and that the affair blew over, but I have no certainty. Since that time (indeed, within these few days) while we were on our march to Brest, I found an English paper, wherein there was an article, copied from the Northern Star, of September 16, by which I saw, to my most unspeakable..."
