admonition, smother all farther inquiry into this affair.

I related this black trait of ingratitude to Prince Charles of
Lorraine, who prevailed on me to again see my cousin, without
letting him know I knew what had passed, and still to render him
every service in my power.

Before I proceed I will here give the reader a per-'trait of this
Trenck.

He was a man of superior talents and unbounded ambition; devoted,
even fanatically, to his sovereign; his boldness approached
temerity; he was artful of mind, wicked of heart, vindictive and
unfeeling. His cupidity equalled the utmost excess of avarice, even
in his thirty-third year, in which he died. He was too proud to
receive favours or obligations from any man, and was capable of
ridding himself of his best friend if he thought he had any claims
on his gratitude or could get possession of his fortune.

He knew I had rendered him very important services, supposed his
cause already won, having bribed the judges, who were to revise the
sentence, with thirty thousand florins, which money I received from
his friend Baron Lopresti, and conveyed to these honest counsellors.
I knew all his secrets, and nothing more was necessary to prompt his
suspicious and bad heart to seek my destruction.

Scarcely had a fortnight elapsed, after his having first betrayed
me, before the following remarkable event happened.

I left him one evening to return home, taking under my coat a bag