He was never brought to trial, but he discovered, with bitterness, that he had committed a fatal error, and that his political influence had passed away.

He addressed numerous private epistles to eminent persons, indignantly denying the imputations against his character, and demanding an investigation.

Among other letters he observed in one to Count Hohenlo, that he was astonished and grieved to find that all his faithful labours and sufferings in the cause of his fatherland had been forgotten in an hour.

In place of praise and gratitude, he had reaped nothing but censure and calumny; because men ever judged, not by the merits, but by the issue.

That common people should be so unjust, he said, was not to be wondered at, but of men like Hohenlo be had hoped better things.