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146 but had been arrested by the Austrians; that Samoilow had made him offers also, and threatened him, but with less severity than me; that he had answered to the same effect as myself; that they had told him he had only written a romance, and knowing that he had been at Paris in 1793, they had required from him to put down everything that he knew of the policy, views, and plans of those who were at the head of the French revolution.

Mostowski, who was the intimate friend of Vergniaux, made no scruple to tell them all he knew about it; he thought that, by writing these answers, and saying how prominent a part the deliverance of Poland formed in the vast projects of the Girondins, he would prevent the Russians, through fear of consequences, from resorting to extreme and violent measures towards our unhappy country. He was deceived, however, upon that point; for events have proved, that, in spite of all the ambitious intrigues, the changes, the ebb and flow of parties, the republican cabinet faithfully followed the vast and grasping policy of the