I know as well as yourself, and perhaps even better, how many troops you have.

Your infantry in all amounts to 120,000 men and your cavalry to about 60,000 or 70,000; I have three times as many....

The Emperor Alexander is badly advised.

How can he tolerate such vile people around him--an Armfeld, an intriguing, depraved, rascally fellow, a ruined debauchee, who is known only by his crimes and who is the enemy of Russia; a Stein, driven from his country like an outcast, a miscreant with a price on his head; a Bennigsen, who, it is said, has some military talent, of which I know nothing, but whose hands are steeped in blood ?[12100]....

Let him surround himself with the Russians and I will say nothing....