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Rh, Brunswick, Kamenskoi, &c. to make fools of them in the battles the event-workers were working to produce : they said Russia must be weighed by me, crying, ‘We told you that you were Buonaparte s talisman, and that we would work him up to as high a pitch of grandeur by the possession of you, as we would fix you degraded below the common level of human nature,” (an expression often indeed used by them in menacing me during the years they so threatened to murder my son and all my family, if I would not forgive them : and would not only counteract me in every thing, but make every person presenting himself mock and ridicule me, and kill me at last, either secretly or openly, for that I should never escape out of their clutches alive ; and after having asserted they would bring Russia to the balances for a few months, they cried ‘Yho are coming,’ brainsaying, that a magnetic fluid impregnated Russian was coming.