appeared, on the revision of the process most evidently. The trial,
which had cost them twenty-seven thousand florins, and the sentence
which followed, were proved to have been partial and unjust; and
that sixteen of Trenck's officers, who most of them had been broken
for different offences, had perjured themselves to insure his
destruction.

It is a most remarkable circumstance that public notice was given,
in the Vienna Gazette, to the following purport.

"All those who have any complaints to make against Trenck, let them
appear, and they shall receive a ducat per day, so long as the
prosecution continues."

It will readily be imagined how fast his accusers would increase,
and what kind of people they were. The pay of these witnesses alone
amounted to fifteen thousand florins. I now began the labour in
concurrence with Doctor Gerhauer, and the cause soon took another
turn; but such was the state of things, it would have been necessary
to have broken all the members of the council of war, as well as
counsellor Weber, a man of great power. Thus, unfortunately,
politics began to interfere with the course of justice.

The Empress Queen gave Trenck to understand she required he should
ask her pardon; and on that condition all proceedings should be
stopped, and he immediately set at liberty. Prince Charles, who
knew the court of Vienna, advised me also to persuade my cousin to
comply; but nothing could shake his resolution. Feeling his right
and innocence, he demanded strict justice; and this made ruin more
swift.