There is a conspiracy which has its members in the French army, in the garrison now in Vienna, nay, even among those who are in the closest attendance upon the emperor, and which unites all the malcontents in France with the foes of Napoleon throughout all Europe.
Heligoland is the meeting-place for the envoys of the conspirators throughout Europe; there the central committee always assembles at certain times, and from there by confidential messengers and fellow conspirators issues its commands and directions to the members in all places; there is the depot of the arms, ammunition, and other military stores.

Thither England has sent General Bathurst; Spain, General Bandari, for consultation and agreement with the Austrian General Nugent, the Russian General Demidoff, and a certain Baron von Moudenfels, who has apparently played a prominent part in all these negotiations, and in whose hands all the single threads of this many-branched conspiracy meet.

There was devised and arranged the plan which is now to be executed and in which Baron von Moudenfels plays the most important part." "Do you know this Baron von Moudenfels ?" asked Schulmeister.

"Was he at your entertainment this evening?
I saw several gentlemen who were strangers to me, and whose names I was going to ask you, when I was called away.

Was Baron von Moudenfels among them ?" "No, father, he was not among them, and I do not know Baron von Moudenfels at all.