Political History of the Devil Upon Two Sticks/Chapter 3
And first, DUMOURIER began his career as a spy in England in the year 1780, where he pretended to be a persecuted clergyman exiled for having published a book entitled, The folly of France assisting the rebels. Thus he cajoled the British Government, and rendered his country such service that he was made commandant of Cherbourg; at the revolution he worked himself into the favour of the unfortunate king; was raised to the chief command of the army; and when a dispute had arisen betwixt him and some of his associates who thought themselves deprived of a due share of the spoils—to elude the gullotine he escaped to Switzerland.