His only regret, he said, was having stranded so near port, after passing through four armies; and being unable to carry out the Emperor's orders.

He appeared animated by that French fanaticism which has done so much harm to our beloved Germany.

Nevertheless I could not help defending him; and I translated his words less as an interpreter than as an advocate.

Unhappily, they found upon him a letter from Napoleon to General Rapp, of which I preserved a copy: "Abandon Dantzic, break the blockade, unite with the garrisons of Stettin, Custrin and Glogau, march along the Elbe, arrange with St.Cyr and Davoust to concentrate the forces scattered at Dresden, Forgau, Wittenberg, Magdeburg and Hamburg; roll up an army like a snow ball; cross Westphalia, which is open, and come to defend the line of the Rhine with an army of 170,000 Frenchmen which you will have saved! "NAPOLEON." This letter was sent to the headquarters of the Russian army, whilst a half-dozen illiterate soldiers, drunk with joy and bad brandy, condemned the brave Colonel of the 23d of the line to the death of a spy and a traitor.

The execution was fixed for the next day, the 12th, and M.
Pierre Victor Fougas, after having thanked and embraced me with the most touching sensibility, (He is a husband and a father.) was shut up in the little battlemented tower of Liebenfeld, where the wind whistles terribly through all the loopholes.
The night of the 11th and 12th of November was one of the severest of that terrible winter.