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 "The intercession of Baron T in my behalf, had so much weight with the governor, that he suffered me to escape without punishment, and sent me on the recruiting business, in order to get rid of me without provoking my anger: O that he had rather loaded me with his resentment, than with his bounty, and punished me as I deserved; perhaps it would have opened my eyes and brought me back to the path of honesty00."

"My ruin was now completed: I began my recruiting business with great alacrity and cheerfulness, and found but too many opportunities of exerting my plotting skill, which I did with so much success, that my comrades were astonished, and my superiors so highly pleased with my zeal, that they put the greatest confidence in me, and intrusted me with sums which enabled me to abandon myself to all manner of dissipation; the few remaining sparks of honesty and virtue were extinguish-