Pagina 569 van 896

"The crime for which I am imprisoned, Monsieur heretofore the

Marquis, and for which I shall be summoned before the tribunal,

and shall lose my life (without your so generous help), is, they

tell me, treason against the majesty of the people, in that I

have acted against them for an emigrant. It is in vain I

represent that I have acted for them, and not against, according

to your commands. It is in vain I represent that, before the

sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts

they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had

had recourse to no process. The only response is, that I have

acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant?