On the next morning my steward brought me word, that all my fine furniture at my seat at Charlottenberg had been broken to pieces, the beds ripped open, and the costly feathers of down strewed all over the rooms. I suspected immediately who was the perpetrator, and brought my complaints before the K--g, who made up threefold for the loss I had sustained. During my stay at Franckfort, I formed an acquaintance with the Marquis Mousons, whom the revolution had compelled to leave France. He was both a shrewd and a handsome man, almost as cunning and as artful as Pinetti. At my request he was made reader to the K--g; he was a perfect master of the art of diverting the monarch’s _ennui_ and ill temper through his wit and humour, and through that frivolity which has fallen particularly to the lot of the French. He courted my affections, but with such respect and submission as were a thousand times more flattering to me than the tenderest caresses of the most enamoured fop. He gradually gained my confidence, and, at last, a certain intimacy took place between us, which put me in the possession of many a valuable secret. He completed me in the sublime politics of Machiavel, and we formed and established a society, to which none but such were admitted as had been rigorously tried. The principle members were B----, W----, H----, H----, O----, B----, A----, G----, P---- du B----, R----; myself and Mousons were permanent presidents. Our orders were executed by my brother and a relation of mine, one Kunassius, a huntsman, and the watchman of our assembly. Here are a few of the articles which Mousons had drawn up, and which every member was obliged to keep sacred on his oath. The first law of all was the most inviolate secrecy, and rather to suffer to have the tongue cut out than betray a single secret of the society. All the members that were chosen must promise to watch every one with whom they should happen to have any intercourse, and to listen attentively to all their discourses. To report faithfully, and in writing, to me and Mousons, all they had observed and heard. They were to insinuate themselves into the Courts of Judicature, and every now and then to undertake little trips into the country, in order to discover what was going forward there, either to our advantage or disadvantage. This arrangement enabled me to be informed of every thing that happened in the cabinet of the K--g, the ministers, and the generals; to know all the verdicts given in the different departments of the law and police, as also all the orders issued in every regiment. I was acquainted with the secrets of every family, nay, with the temper of almost every individual person, and, of course, might take my measures accordingly. Each member had, for the private use of his correspondence, the following figures or cyphers: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 13, 14, 15, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p,