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motive was as incomprehensible to them as to me, they sent immediately Mostowski to General Kosciuszko, who enjoyed the greatest favour of us all at the Court, to inquire whether he had already asked your release, and if he had not done so, to urge him to do it.

I asked every one if they understood any thing regarding the enigmatic accusation of the Police Lieutenant, but they all agreed that there must have been a misunderstanding, and that I must have been taken for another person. On the following day I went in the evening to the Duchess of Courland,[1]

  1. Ann Dorothea, born Countess de Medem, third wife of Peter, the last Duke of Courland, to whom she was married on the 6th of November 1779. The affairs of Courland having required her presence at Warsaw, in 1790, she remained there for a long time, and took a lively interest in the hopes and enthusiasm of the Poles at that time. She died at Löbichan, on the 20th August 1821. Her youngest daughter, Dorothea, born the 21st August, 1793, married the Duke de Dino.