I must likewise add he was four hundred ducats indebted to me. At
that time I had always a plentiful supply of money. This booty
became his own when I, unexamined, was arrested, and thrown into
prison. In like manner he seized on the greatest part of my camp
equipage.

Further, we had quarrelled during our first campaign, because he had
beaten one of my servants; we even were proceeding to fight with
pistols, had not Colonel Winterfield interfered, and amicably ended
our quarrel. The Lithuanian is, by nature, obstinate and
revengeful; and, from that day, I have reason to believe he sought
my destruction.

God only knows what were the means he took to excite the King's
suspicious; for it is incredible that Frederic, considering his
WELL-KNOWN PROFESSIONS of public justice, should treat me in the
manner he did, without a hearing, without examination, and without a
court-martial. This to me has ever remained a mystery, which the
King alone was able to explain; he afterwards was convinced I was
innocent: but my sufferings had been too cruel, and the miseries he
had inflicted too horrible, for me ever to hope for compensation.

In an affair of this nature, which will soon he known to all Europe,
as it long has been in Prussia, the weakest is always guilty. I
have been made a terrible example to this our age, how true that
maxim is in despotic States.

A man of my rank, having once unjustly suffered, and not having the
power of making his sufferings known, must ever be highly rewarded