CHAPTER XVII.

Epistle to Lord Mansfield—Voltaire on D’Eon—Anxiety to get quit of petticoats—Mademoiselle D’Eon de Beaumont in peaceful retreats—Applies for active service in the fleet—Returns to male attire, is arrested, and confined—Being liberated, goes home—Arrival in London—Fences before the Prince of Wales—Mr. Angelo—Mademoiselle D’Eon and Phillidor at chess—Advertised sale of library—Treatment by a British peer the cause thereof—Earl Ferrers’ bond—Sale of jewellery 299