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WOLVES IN FRANCE.
But as the relation of this extraordinary affair, excited
some doubts, expressed in the public papers—-they were
intirely dissipated by the following letter from one of
the gentlemen connected with the parties in France, to
the Editors.
Gentlemen,
Seeing it stated in your paper that Mr. Dressing, the
messenger, had been attacked by two wolves near Bou-
logne, and finding upon my arrival in England, that not
only the fact was doubted, but that several persons in-
sisted that no wolves were to be found in Picardy, I beg
leave, through your channel, to give my testimony to this
extraordinary fact.
I must premise that I am perfectly acquainted both
with the person and character of that gentleman, and
was an eye-witness of the dreadful situation of the pos-
tillion, Mr.D. and the young lady who accompanied him
in his jemmies to and from Amiens, being then at Bou-
logne waiting for a passage to England.
The lady was taken out of the cabriole lifeless, with
the fright occasioned by the sudden discharge of Mr.
D’s pistols; and the postillion’s boots, though made of
wood, hooped with iron, as is the fashion in France, was
nearly bitten through. He says he is sure that one of the
animals must be wounded, as the blood could be traced
all the wTay from the road to the wood.
I am, Sir, an old traveller myself, having been in
almost every part of Europe; but I never thought that
wolves were to be found unless among the Alps, the
Pyrenees, the back parts of Poland, and the unculti-
vated forests of the north; nor did I ever hear of their
making their appearance, except when literally starved
put of their lurking places by severe weather.
Mr. D. hotveyer, assures me, that a still more dreadful
accident
WOLVES IN FRANCE.
But as the relation of this extraordinary affair, excited
some doubts, expressed in the public papers—-they were
intirely dissipated by the following letter from one of
the gentlemen connected with the parties in France, to
the Editors.
Gentlemen,
Seeing it stated in your paper that Mr. Dressing, the
messenger, had been attacked by two wolves near Bou-
logne, and finding upon my arrival in England, that not
only the fact was doubted, but that several persons in-
sisted that no wolves were to be found in Picardy, I beg
leave, through your channel, to give my testimony to this
extraordinary fact.
I must premise that I am perfectly acquainted both
with the person and character of that gentleman, and
was an eye-witness of the dreadful situation of the pos-
tillion, Mr.D. and the young lady who accompanied him
in his jemmies to and from Amiens, being then at Bou-
logne waiting for a passage to England.
The lady was taken out of the cabriole lifeless, with
the fright occasioned by the sudden discharge of Mr.
D’s pistols; and the postillion’s boots, though made of
wood, hooped with iron, as is the fashion in France, was
nearly bitten through. He says he is sure that one of the
animals must be wounded, as the blood could be traced
all the wTay from the road to the wood.
I am, Sir, an old traveller myself, having been in
almost every part of Europe; but I never thought that
wolves were to be found unless among the Alps, the
Pyrenees, the back parts of Poland, and the unculti-
vated forests of the north; nor did I ever hear of their
making their appearance, except when literally starved
put of their lurking places by severe weather.
Mr. D. hotveyer, assures me, that a still more dreadful
accident