As a serjeant was lately exercising some of the soldiers on board one of the transports at Portsmouth, he observed one of them, who went by the name of Paul Daniel had a more prominent chest than ordinary. After the firings were over, he sent for the person to the cabin, when telling his suspicions, that he was a woman, and insisting upon searching him, after some evasions, the soldier confessed her sex.
The account she gave of herself was, that having a husband whom she dearly loved, and who after spending a plentiful fortune, by which means they were both reduced to beggary, inlisted in a marching regiment, and had been in Germany two years: having not heard from him in all that time, she was determined to range the world in search of him; and being informed that we were sending more troops over she came to a resolution of entering as a soldier, and was now inconsolable that the discovery of her sex should prevent her design.
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