1 hotel, where no one asked me for it, I thought such a course
2 unnecessary. This reply seemed unsatisfactory to the governor.
3 He dwelt upon the fact, that as 1 knew fourteen different
4 languages, I ought to he acquainted with the Russian, for I
5 was then conversing with him in French; he also said that
6 as I had asserted I was an European Christian, clad in oriental
7 costume, I must enter the category of spies, especially as I had
8 hern audacious enough to attempt to injure one of the most re¬
9 spectable mercantile-houses, by casting a. blemish on its character,
10 and for which he would himself be security. I was led back
11 again to the police-office as a prisoner, where I was detained
12 from nine o’clock in the morning till three in the afternoon,
13 without their offering nie so much as n -eat. 'deanwhile a
14 police-officer was dispatched to the hotel, where my room was
15 opened, and everything rummaged, but they could And nothing
16 suspicious. Whilst they were thus engaged in the examination
17 of my effects, my horse arrived, and was put in the stable.
18 When t he police officer saw my horse, he came to ru j and pre wl
19 me to sell it to him, but I declared that having destined it a, a
20 present to my legitimate sovereign, I would not sell it for any
21 prive. At three o clock, 1 was informed that the passport which
22 they gave me at Orenburg, and which ought to have been
23 sufficient to convey me to my native country, must remain at
24 iie police-office, and instead of that, I was to receive an official
25 certificate, with which I was ordered to depart for Moscow
26 within twenty-four hours. After having left tlm police-office,- I
27 waited on some of my German friends, who pressed me to leave
28 Nislmi-Nowgorori as soon as possible, as a rumor was current
29 that the emperor bad arrived at Moscow, and that post-horses
30 had already been ordered to bring him to Nowgorod; so that
31 the greatest danger menaced me, namely, being shut up in a
32 dungeon, to prevent my making complaints to the monarch.
33 These friends accompanied me to my hotel; but bow great was
34 our astonishment on seeing the door of my v room open, and
35 a part of my effects stolen ! Rut that astonishment reached its
36 height when, on going into (he stable to specie to the groom,