16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. q, r, s, t, u, w, x, y, z. If any of our letters had been intercepted, it still would, with these precautions, have been difficult to unravel their contents. Besides the above cyphers, Mousons, I, and B----, had other different sets of figures, which we changed from time to time, and as circumstances would require. Our principles admitted assassination, suicide, poisoning, murder, perjury, treason, rebellion, and, in short, all the means which _prejudiced men_ have termed crimes. Much less obedience was to be shewn to the K--g and the laws than to me. And should any one presume to adhere to the K--g and the magistrates rather than to me, he must be crushed, as it was the case with E---- and the architect B----. A general confusion in the government must, of course, increase the extent of my power, and, therefore, it was our grand object to excite distrust in the K--g against his subjects, in the ministers against their subalterns, and in the counsellors against their own colleagues. No power could save the man who shewed me the least shadow of neglect or contempt. We had found means to bribe those who were employed at the post-offices in the country-towns, and they would let us have certain letters, which we either destroyed or opened and sealed again, without its being visible. We even had our emissaries in foreign countries, who were to endeavour to get admittance to the houses of the great, of the foreign ministers, and the rich merchants, with a view of exciting dissention between the rulers of those respective countries and their subjects, between parents and children, and between the most intimate friends. They were to form cabals, invent calumnies, rouse hatred and suspicion against any thing that did not agree with our plan, and to persecute our antagonists with poison and dagger. Religion itself was not to be spared when our welfare required it so. They were to seize every opportunity to interfere with politics, to excite commotions, to preach rebellion, and through bribery to work up the people to revolt. By means of this extended connexion, my power became so immense; by this I carried every thing. It was this that made the world wonder how, with her withered charms, the Countess of Lichtenau could manage to lead the K--g which way she chose. The end sanctifies the means, said my great tutor, Machiavel, and Mousons would analyze this doctrine with me in its most minute details. He likewise was the man who initiated me into the mysteries of the God and the Goddess of Love, and let me into such secrets as no man before him had yet opened to my eyes. Oh! this Mousons was a great genius! and his gallantry was the true gallantry of a Frenchman. I succeeded in persuading the K--g that the use of the waters of Pyrmont would prove highly beneficial to his health.