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 the gendarmes, who afterwards became somewhat more respectful in their deportment. It may not be irrelevant here to insert a remark made at the time, that when we met with an officer of the "ancien règime," we were generally treated like gentlemen, but when under those sprung up from the revolutionary "canaille," known, in France, by the appellation of "enfans de terreur," we, on the contrary, met with insolence and severity.

We left Troyes, on the 16th, and halted, to breakfast in a village, when the remains of my twenty pounds were expended on a scanty meal. Lieutenant M'Kenzie, seeing that the reduced circumstances of our party now compelled us to keep aloof from the dinner table, most handsomely insisted that his remaining cash should be shared amongst us, so that by his liberality, we again fared very well. This was not the only instance of his kind interference in my behalf. He also had been harshly treated by the gendarmes; and, such was his utter detestation and abhorrence, at that time, of every thing French, that he