betrayed me,
before the following remarkable event happened.

I left him one evening to return home, taking under my coat a bag with
papers and documents relating to the prosecution, which I had been
examining for him, and transcribing. There were at this time about five-
and-twenty officers in Vienna who had laid complaints against him, and
who considered me as their greatest enemy because I had laboured
earnestly in his defence. I was therefore obliged, on all occasions, to
be upon my guard. A report had been propagated through Vienna that I was
secretly sent by the King of Prussia to free my cousin from imprisonment;
he, however, constantly denied, to the hour of his death, his ever having
written to me at Berlin; hence also it will follow the letter I received
had been forged by Jaschinsky.

Leaving the Arsenal, I crossed the court, and perceived I was closely
followed by two men in grey roquelaures, who, pressing upon my heels,
held loud and insolent conversation concerning the runaway Prussian
Trenck. I found they sought a quarrel, which was a thing of no great
difficulty at that moment, for a man is never more disposed to duelling
than when he has nothing to lose, and is discontented with his condition.
I supposed they were two of the accusing officers broken by Trenck, and
endeavoured to avoid them, and gain the Jew's place.

Scarcely had I turned down the street that leads thither before they
quickened their pace. I turned round, and in a moment received a thrust
with a sword in the left side, where I had put my bag of papers, which
accident alone saved my life; the sword pierced through the papers and
slightly grazed the skin. I instantly drew, and the heroes ran. I
pursued, one of them tripped and fell. I seized him; the guard came up:
he declared he was an officer of the regiment of Kollowrat, showed his
uniform, was released, and I was taken to prison. The Town Major came
the next day, and told me I had intentionally sought a quarrel with two
officers, Lieutenants F---g and K---n. These kind gentlemen did not
reveal their humane intention of sending me to the other world.

I was alone, could produce no witness, they were two. I must necessarily
be in the wrong, and I remained six days in prison. No sooner was I
released, than these my good friends sent to demand satisfaction for the
said pretended insult. The proposal was accepted, and I promised to be
at the Scotch gate, the place appointe