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 letter from Wills, containing a confirmation of every thing I had expected from so valuable a friend, and indeed, more; for he had entertained Moitier at his house for two days, treating him in the most handsome manner; got my bills cashed, and guaranteed payment of every engagement I should enter into with him. This letter also gave me information of Moyses having been sent from Givet to Bitche, distant about two hundred miles, for an offence similar to the one for which I was "cachoted" in Valenciennes: but I had been so anxiously brooding over his anticipated rescue, that this letter did not, at first, destroy all hope of prosecuting my plans, even to the very walls of this horrible bastille; but, when I calmly discussed the subject with Moitier and Neirinks, the impracticability of success became so evident, that I was compelled, although very reluctantly, to abandon the design. Moitier's vacillating, equivocal conduct, was now changed into a bold and steady determination to enter into the cause, with spirit and energy: in proof of which, he