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Bender 17th September OS 1790

Hond Sir

I wrote to you from Moscow about 2 weeks ago when I was just setting
out from thence. I arrived here 3 or 4 days ago but the Prince
being on an excursion to Ochakoff Akerman & other of our new
possessions and it being rather difficult to catch him flying; I wait
his return here which will probably be in a few days. Not having
seen him I can tell you nothing farther of my future motions.

We are here with an Army of about an hundred thousand men
doing what we can to amuse ourselves and I have the pleasure
of meeting with a number of my friends & acquaintance who
though assembled from different parts of the country are all
astonished to see me return here after so long a journey
while they have been in a state of comparative tranquillity
since I left them. One of my particular friends Brigadier
Ribanpierre a Swiss by birth but married into a Russian family,
gave me yesterday some account of the Colonel de la Fontaine
of whom you enquired in one of your last letters & of whom
till then as I told you in my last all my researches had
been fruitless. De La Fontaine had been Lieutenant in the
Swiss Guards in the service of the King of France and lived at

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