2 p.l., iv, vii, [9]-188 p. 22 cm. "Les uns prtendent que M. de Parads descendoit de la maison des Parads en Espagne, dautres quil toit btard dun comte de Parads, grand dEspagne, mort au service de France; le plus grand nombre le fait natre dun ptissier de Falzbourg [nomm Richard]" -- Pref. Most authorites agree that he was a pretender to the name of Parads.Contains an account of his successful transactions, as a spy in England, with the real causes of the failure of the expedition against Plymouth, in 1779.