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 I was subjected. I requested him to ask the Empress that I might be removed to his prison, being sure that, in consequence of the great regard which she had for him, his request would have every chance of success. He answered me the first time with many protestations of friendship, but without saying whether he would do what I proposed to him, and finally begged me not to write to him, lest I should compromise him. The second time, more than six months after, he only ordered his negro to tell me, verbally, that he had received my note.