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8 KIREy’s WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
privy purse of twelve thousand. The warrant for this last
was in the following terms :
“ Out of gratitude for the services which the Sieur D’Eon
has rendered me m Russia, with my armies, and in other
commissions which I have given him, I grant him a pension
of twelve thousand livres, to be paid to him half yearly, in
whatever country he may be, except in time of war with my
enemies, and till I think fit to confer on him some post, the
salary of which shall exceed the amount of this pension.
“ Versailles, “ LOUIS?’
Isf of April, 1766.”
How the affair of the outlawry ended is not stated, but in
1769 we find him again in this country, and involuntarily
brought before the public in an address to the gentlemen,
clergy, and freeholders of the county of Devon, delivered and
circulated by Dr. Musgrave. As this document relates so
particularly to the Chevalier, and appears worth preserving, it
shall be given without abridgment, together with the answrer
of M. D’Eon.
“ The sheriff having summoned a meeting of the county
in order to consider a petition for redress of grievances, I
think it incumbent on me, as a lover of my country in general,
to lay before you a transaction, which I apprehend, gives
juster grounds of complaint and apprehension than any thing
hitherto made public. Having long had reason to imagine
that the nation has been cruelly and fatally injured in a way
which they little suspect, I have ardently wished for the day,
when my imperfect informations shall be superseded by evi-
dence and certainty. That day, I flatter myself, is at last ap-
proaching, and, that the spirit which now appears among the
freeholders will bear down every obstacle that may be thrown
in the way of open and impartial enquiry.
(i I need not remind you, gentlemen, of the universal in-
dignation and abhorrence, with which the conditions of the
privy purse of twelve thousand. The warrant for this last
was in the following terms :
“ Out of gratitude for the services which the Sieur D’Eon
has rendered me m Russia, with my armies, and in other
commissions which I have given him, I grant him a pension
of twelve thousand livres, to be paid to him half yearly, in
whatever country he may be, except in time of war with my
enemies, and till I think fit to confer on him some post, the
salary of which shall exceed the amount of this pension.
“ Versailles, “ LOUIS?’
Isf of April, 1766.”
How the affair of the outlawry ended is not stated, but in
1769 we find him again in this country, and involuntarily
brought before the public in an address to the gentlemen,
clergy, and freeholders of the county of Devon, delivered and
circulated by Dr. Musgrave. As this document relates so
particularly to the Chevalier, and appears worth preserving, it
shall be given without abridgment, together with the answrer
of M. D’Eon.
“ The sheriff having summoned a meeting of the county
in order to consider a petition for redress of grievances, I
think it incumbent on me, as a lover of my country in general,
to lay before you a transaction, which I apprehend, gives
juster grounds of complaint and apprehension than any thing
hitherto made public. Having long had reason to imagine
that the nation has been cruelly and fatally injured in a way
which they little suspect, I have ardently wished for the day,
when my imperfect informations shall be superseded by evi-
dence and certainty. That day, I flatter myself, is at last ap-
proaching, and, that the spirit which now appears among the
freeholders will bear down every obstacle that may be thrown
in the way of open and impartial enquiry.
(i I need not remind you, gentlemen, of the universal in-
dignation and abhorrence, with which the conditions of the