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114 amount of money that the Princes and Princess gave for the first expenses of the revolution?”

“Was the King of Poland very active and zealous in the cause of the revolution? What was his conduct?”

“Who were the first originators of the insurrection at Warsaw? What means had Kollontay used to poison the Prince-Primate?”

“Where were the archives of the National Council and General Kosciuszko's papers deposited?”

These were the principal questions, which they asked me to answer immediately, besides many others which I omit on account of their being less important.

It was, as I have already mentioned, about nine o'clock in the evening, when I received this book; its pages were numbered, and they refused to give me any other paper to make a rough draught. I could not hold my pen in my right hand; I was therefore obliged, though ill, dejected, and suffering great pain,