I soon learned Trenck must fall a sacrifice--he was rich--his
enemies already had divided among them more than eighty thousand
florins of his property, which was all sequestered, and in their
hands. They had treated him too cruelly, and knew him too well, not
to dread his vengeance the moment he should recover his freedom.

I was moved to the soul at his sufferings, and as he had vented
public threats, at the prospect of approaching victory over his
enemies, they gained over the Court Confessor: and, dreading him as
they did, put every wily art in practice to insure his destruction.
I therefore, in the fulness of my heart, made him the brotherly
proposition of escaping, and, having obtained his liberty, to prove
his innocence to the Empress Queen. I told him my plan, which might
easily have been put in execution, and which he seemed perfectly
decided to follow.

Some days after, I was ordered to wait on field-marshal Count
Konigseck, governor of Vienna. This respectable old gentleman,
whose memory I shall ever revere, behaved to me like a father and
the friend of humanity, advised me to abandon my cousin, who he gave
me clearly to understand had betrayed me by having revealed my
proposed plan of escape, willing to sacrifice me to his ambition in
order to justify the purity of his intentions to the court, and show
that, instead of wishing to escape, he only desired justice.

Confounded at the cowardly action of one for whom I would willingly
have sacrificed my life, and whom I only sought to deliver, I
resolved to leave him to his fate, and thought myself exceedingly
happy that the worthy field-marshal would, after a fatherly