He himself started to visit his estates, which lay about eighty miles from their present position.

Here he hoped to raise a further contingent of men, and all who went home were bidden to bring back fresh recruits, and to spread everywhere the news of the victory.
Six days elapsed, and the band in the forest had already been increased by many hundreds of new-comers, whom the news of the successes which had been gained had induced to take up arms, and the time of the various leaders was fully occupied in giving some notion of drill and of the use of the musket to the new levies.
On the evening of the sixth day a peasant arrived with intelligence which spread dismay in the encampment.

Count Stanislas had been captured by the Russians, having been surprised by a body of Russian cavalry, who, doubtless by means of a spy, had obtained news of his return home.

He had been conveyed to Lublin, where he would doubtless be at once tried and executed.
A council of the leaders was hastily summoned.
Lublin was a large town garrisoned by some 5000 Russian troops, and even had the whole of the insurgent bands been collected, they would not have been strong enough to attempt a repetition of their late successful surprise, especially, as after that occurrence, the Russian troops would be everywhere on the alert.
All agreed that the loss of their most successful leader would be a death-blow to the revolt in that part of the country.

The personal popularity of the young leader was immense, and the prestige which he had won by his several successes had excited the greatest confidence among his followers.