_Baron Munchausen_ (Vol. ii., p. 519.).--As it was nearly thirty years
since I had seen the _Percy Anecdotes_, I was obliged to speak doubtfully
of {306} having derived from that work the statements that the author of
_Munchausen_ was a Mr. "M----," and that he was a prisoner in France.
Accident has within the last few days thrown in my way the very volume of
the _Anecdotes_ in which this is stated (vol. v., _Anecdotes of Captivity_,
p. 103.); and I find that I was mistaken only in supposing "M----'s" place
of confinement to have been the Bastile, whereas the time is said to have
been the Reign of Terror, and therefore of course the Bastile cannot have
been the place.