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WOLVES IN FRANCE. 81
accident happened to him at the conclusion of Lord
Malmesbury’s first mission to Paris, when his Lordship
thought proper to dispatch a messenger to lhe Court of
Vienna, to announce the termination, of that affair. He
applied to the directory for a passport, which was granted
accompanied by an intimation, that the road was danger-
ous, for that no person had travelled that way during the
war. No less than eight of his Majesty’s messengers
who were there, shewed great reluctance at undertaking
this perilous business; when M. Dressing voluntarily
offered his services. This spirited act had like to have
cost him dear, for, on the fifth day of his journey, about
four in the morning, he was alarmed by the cries of the
postillion for help, and being awoke from sleep, jumped
out of his cabriole. He found the boy attacked by four
huge wolves, which every moment threatened him with
destruction ; but he was incapable of rendering him any
assistance, having left, his double barrelled pistols in the
carriage. He instantly sprung back for his fire-arms,
with which he laid the four dreadful monsters dead 1
Now, Sir, from such respectable authority, it will, I pre-
sume, be impossible for any man longer to doubt, that
wolves may not only be found in France, as well as in
the forests of Poland and White Russia, but that they
abound even in the vicinity of Paris. I am, Sir, your
humble servant.
JOHN MARTIN.
Axe and Gate, Westminster, Feb. 15, 1802.
Extraordinary facts relative to preservation of Human
Bodies after their decease.
jA_n intelligent tourist who visited the city of Bremen,
in Germany, in I77B says, there is one peculiarity be-
longing
accident happened to him at the conclusion of Lord
Malmesbury’s first mission to Paris, when his Lordship
thought proper to dispatch a messenger to lhe Court of
Vienna, to announce the termination, of that affair. He
applied to the directory for a passport, which was granted
accompanied by an intimation, that the road was danger-
ous, for that no person had travelled that way during the
war. No less than eight of his Majesty’s messengers
who were there, shewed great reluctance at undertaking
this perilous business; when M. Dressing voluntarily
offered his services. This spirited act had like to have
cost him dear, for, on the fifth day of his journey, about
four in the morning, he was alarmed by the cries of the
postillion for help, and being awoke from sleep, jumped
out of his cabriole. He found the boy attacked by four
huge wolves, which every moment threatened him with
destruction ; but he was incapable of rendering him any
assistance, having left, his double barrelled pistols in the
carriage. He instantly sprung back for his fire-arms,
with which he laid the four dreadful monsters dead 1
Now, Sir, from such respectable authority, it will, I pre-
sume, be impossible for any man longer to doubt, that
wolves may not only be found in France, as well as in
the forests of Poland and White Russia, but that they
abound even in the vicinity of Paris. I am, Sir, your
humble servant.
JOHN MARTIN.
Axe and Gate, Westminster, Feb. 15, 1802.
Extraordinary facts relative to preservation of Human
Bodies after their decease.
jA_n intelligent tourist who visited the city of Bremen,
in Germany, in I77B says, there is one peculiarity be-
longing