an act so atrocious!

I found Saxon and Prussian recruiters at Marion-burgh, with whom,
having no money, I ate, drank, listened to their proposals, gave
them hopes for the morrow, and departed by daybreak.

March 17.--To Elbing, four miles.

Here I met with my former worthy tutor, Brodowsky, who was become a
captain and auditor in the Polish regiment of Golz. He met me just
as I entered the town. I followed triumphantly to his quarters; and
here at length ended the painful, long, and adventurous journey I
had been obliged to perform.

This good and kind gentleman, after providing me with immediate
necessaries, wrote so affectionately to my mother, that she came to
Elbing in a week, and gave me every aid of which I stood in need.

The pleasure I had in meeting once more this tender mother, whose
qualities of heart and mind were equally excellent, was
inexpressible. She found a certain mode of conveying a letter to my
dear mistress at Berlin, who a short time after sent me a bill of
exchange for four hundred ducats upon Dantzic. To this my mother
added a thousand rix-dollars, and a diamond cross worth nearly half
as much, remained a fortnight with me, and persisted, in spite of
all remonstrance, in advising me to go to Vienna. My determination
had been fixed for Petersburg; all my fears and apprehensions being
awakened at the thought of Vienna, and which indeed afterwards
became the source of all my cruel sufferings and sorrows. She would
not yield in opinion, and promised her future assistance only in