d upon it by the court called Hofkriegsrath, in Vienna, in which I was
condemned to pay seven hundred florins to one Bussy, with fourteen years'
interest.

Bussy was a known swindler. I therefore journeyed, post-haste, to
Vienna. No hearing; no satisfactory account was to be obtained. The
answer was, "Sentence is passed, therefore all attempts are too late."

I applied to the Emperor Joseph, pledged my head to prove the
falsification of this note; and entreated a revision of the cause. My
request was granted and my attorney, Weyhrauch, was an upright man. When
he requested a day of revision to be appointed, he was threatened to be
committed by the referendary. Zetto, should he interfere and defend the
affairs of Trenck. He answered firmly, "His defence is my business: I
know my cause to be good."

Four months did I continue in Vienna before the day was appointed to
revise this cause. It now appeared there were erasures and holes through
the paper in three places; all in court were convinced the claim ought to
be annulled, and the claimant punished. Zetto ordered the parties to
withdraw, and then so managed that the judges resolved that the case must
be laid before the court with formal and written proofs.

This gave time for new knavery; I was obliged to return to
Aix-la-Chapelle, and four years elapsed before this affair was decided.
Two priests, in the interim, took false oaths that they had seen me
receive money. At length, however, I proved that the note was dated a
year after I had been imprisoned at Magdeburg. Further, my attorney
proved the writs of the court had been falsified. Zetto, referendary,
and Bussy, were the forgers; but I happened to be too active, and my
attorney too honest, to lose this case. I was obliged to make three very
expensive journeys from Aix-la-Chapelle to Vienna, lest judgement should
go by default. Sentence at last was pronounced. I gained my cause, and
the note was declared a forgery, but the costs, amounting to three
thousand five hundred florins, I was obliged to pay, for Bussy could not:
nor was he punished, though driven from Vienna for his villainous acts.
Zetto, however, still continued for eleven years my persecutor, till he
was deprived of his office, and condemned to the House of Correction.

My knowledge of the world increased at Aix-la-Chapelle, where men of all
characters met. In the morning I conversed with a lord in opposition, in
the afternoon with an