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376 Were the fortress to be besieged, it would require a force of between six and seven thousand men to defend the works; but happily such an event is improbable. The fortifications of Nimeguen have been repaired since the siege, and are in a good condition; but the out-works are destroyed, and the cultivated garden now smiles where the hideous battery appeared. Nimeguen is one of the principal depots of the stores of the French army in the Batavian republic; and probably will continue, though a general peace mould be made, and by the treaty between the two republics it is then to be restored to the Dutch, to be garrisoned by French troops.

Disappointed of seeing General Chorié, I stopt but a single day at Nimeguen, and returned to Utrecht by night. We quitted that city early in the morning in a treckschuyt, and arrived in the evening at Rotterdam.

Our wishes now anxiously turned towards England. Our tour had been productive of much pleasure, and we continued to experience at Rotterdam the same hospitable treatment