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glad to know in ‘'N hat yo;poa-sfe Itacl attraCted tlteit;
notice. Why (replied. the Gentleman), they ob-
Serve in -yOl the air and. Manner of a I.:ady," - On
this she tell a laughing, 'and,. with an arch and lively.
dir,'rejdined, " In this case, Sir, as the decision of-the
question is competent to a Lady, I beg leave to se -
lea your wile for my judge." This proposal, ..he.
did not think proper to accept, and wishing to dis-
- engage himself, protested that he was far •from be-
lieving any such thing, and only hinted at what
Mesdatnes had suspeCted. She withdrew
earlier than usual that day,.and passed rather ate un-
easy night.: But having fully meditated on her si-
tuation she resolved to bear herself through,- put on
a good.face, appear at the Cassino next day, tnid
there hold the most gallant and free diseourse• with
the Ladies, in order to remove, if. possible,
.their
suspiciens Accordingly, after complimenting them,
she brought-the matter on the corpet„aud declared,
that far from being 9:ll:tided, she found herself
highly flattered, in- hopes that the opinion they en-
tertained would render them less difficult tofavour
her with a -verification to enable them to pronounce
- their judgment with greater certainty. This .pro-
duced the effe& she wished tln
by this military air of frankness, immediately re-
traeled their. opinion, saving, " Von are too. gal-
lant, Ensign, for us to presume doing:you any lap-
. ther theinjury of believing you a Lady !" and thus'
the matter dropt. .
Sor,ne time-after; having received orders to pro-
ceed. to Chelni, she had the good, fortune to escape
the prying looks of the fair sex there, who obliged
her to use-uncommon circumspeetion. But she fell
side upon the road, and was obliged to stop at Lu-
bin, the head-quarters of the-battalion. On -this
oecasion.shewas-under much obligation to Capt. Ta-
ber, 'of the- Same regiment, who sheaved her un-'
*common marks.of humanity, attention, and -kind-
ness; ,in -a country where she was quite a stranger.
Here also she had difficulty to conceal her sex—for
being affeeted. with a' general debility, she NVaS:
obliged to commit himself in all her wants to the
care. -of a soldier, who was. her Servant, but who;
happily for her, was a young man of such simpli-
city, that she ran no risk from his Penetration.
Site had scarcely recovered When, having received-
notice that the Council of War had transferred her
to the regiment of Bannat, she reported herself ready
itinxediately to :join '; and notwithstanding the ad-
vice, of her present. Commander to suspend her Sour- H
ney until she had sufficiently recruited her strength,,
sire persisted in undertaking it, and,arrived on the-
6th of May, 1790, at Penezuna, in the Bannat;
where the.staft was stationed.
. Some promotions were at this crisis taking place
in the regiment, and being one of the oldest en-,
signs,she expeeted to be promoted to a lieutenantcy,
but was op • less surprised than hurt to find two

younger ensigns prefc;rred4o her. Being sore of her
ground, in so far as to know that the condua-list
given in her favour by-the regiments in which she
had before served hacrleft not the smallest room
for reproach, notwithstanding her mild' and patient
charailer, she presented very sharp remonstrances,
.-protesting that she should be a3hamed'to continue
to wear the uniform of the teLimcnt, if it did
,not
repair the injury done her. in answer to this 're-
monstrance she received a rescript of the 13th of
July, Which entirely satisfied her, the regiment de-
daring that the mistake proceeded from not having.
kagwn that Ensign Scanagatti had been transferred
to it when the promotions were proposed, but that
they would not fail to take the first 'opportunity of
doing justice to his merit ; and; in facc.l, she obtained
a Lieutenantcy PO the Ist of March following.
'She was now placed in the battalion- of reserve,
which generally remains inatlive in cantonment, and
was then under the command of Licut. Col. Eins-
feld. But anxious to share in the glory of the caM-
paign, she solicited to he tranferred to one -of the
battalions of the same regiMent which was then
against the enemy in Italy, and she was in con-
'sequence' appointed to the sixth, then encamped On
the mountains to the east of Genoa, which shejoined
without delay.
. I-Jere.she was encamped With her battalion, com-..:
manded by Major Pannell; and Sharp skirmishes and'
aaionsmore frequently took place than at any other
of the outpoSts. She fought under thO'Orlicer, par-.
ticularly in' twe battles' that: took' place on the 1 4th
and 15th of Dec. 179 g, in the neighbourhood of
Seoffera,-add at Torriglia, where "She had the satis-
fadion of penbtrating-first into the enemy's entrench-
ed redoubts, which the enemy" were then forced to
abandon, hilt which they retook next day, through
.:the superiority of force with which they renewed
the attack. .

in this., unfortunate •affair the brave Major Paulich
being severely wounded and made prisoner, with a'
part of his, battalion, the main body of the army in
that neighbourhood,, under the command of Gen.
Count Klenau, was obliged immediately to retire..
.Lient7 Scanagattt W 23 -then ordered to post hitnelf
at Barba Gelata, with -A stuAll detaelnitent, in ordwr
to cover the retreat on that side and, on the 25th
of the same month received order's to join the'hatta

lion lying at Campiano, and CastelGardi; distrids
belonging to the Duke of Parina. • •
Captain Golubowish, and after.him Captain Kli-
unowich, succeeded to the command of the batta-
lion; which, 'about the end of February, t two, was

, sent into quarters at Leghorn. Al this time Ensign
Scanag-atti having been dispatched on regimental bu-
siness to Venice, Mantua, and Milan, had the saiis-
, faaion to revisit her family in passing through-Cre-
mona; of which town her ' Either was then In-
tendant. - .

• Here she stopt a day and two-nights. Her mo-
ther during all that time never quitted her sight ; and
having remarked in the morning, that, whon dress-
ing, she laced her chest very straightly, to 01-lice
every exterior 'sign :of her sex, and that so strong a
compression had there already produced a certain
degreetof mortification and. sonic lividltV, Madame
Scanagatti communicated her fears to her husband,
that their child would -soon tall.a viaim to a cancer

it they delayed longer obliging her to quit the service.
i' The fittber,
~,from the ,ruounent the news reached
him that his daughter had introduced herself to the
Academy as a. boy, had never ceased to importunes
her to return to the avocations of her sex, but at the
I same time carefully concealed thiS transadtioti: of a
I thughter of whom he received the roost satisfaaory
1 reports, and from whose spirit he had also•to expea
some imprudent resolution if counteracted by viOlvut