Jolter, thus baffled in all his endeavours, quitted the Bastille
with a heavy heart, and reported his fruitless negotiation to the
ambassador, who could not help breaking forth into some acrimonious
expressions against the obstinacy and insolence of the young man,
who, he said, deserved to suffer for his folly. Nevertheless, he
did not desist from his representations to the French ministry,
which he found so unyielding, that he was obliged to threaten, in
plain terms, to make it a national concern; and not only wrote to
his court for instructions, but even advised the council to make
reprisals, and send some French gentleman in London to the Tower.
This intimation had an effect upon the ministry at Versailles, who,
rather than run the risk of incensing a people whom it was neither
their interest nor inclination to disoblige, consented to discharge
the offenders, on condition that they should leave Paris in three
days after their enlargement. This proposal was readily agreed to
by Peregrine, who was now a little more tractable, and heartily
tired of being cooped up in such an uncomfortable abode, for the
space of three long days, without any sort of communication or
entertainment but that which his own imagination suggested.
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