to be implicated in the affair.  It was ascertained by the investigation that General Lewicki, Russian commander of the town, independently of the lodgings he occupied, received payment for more than a hundred lodgings; that General Gendre received payment of 212l. 10s.; that Philippeus, cashier to the grand duke, received from the same fund 225l. annually, which was sweetened by a prompt payment of 2,500l., being ten years in advance; and that the coachmen and lackeys of the grand duke and generals received money from the same fund, instead of wages from their masters.  As the inflexibility and integrity of those gentlemen were proof against all bribes, the generals foresaw the impending storm which threatened to break and overwhelm them.  In this critical situation, they conceived one of the most atrocious plots on record.  Its object was to create a disturbance, by which the town-house should be set on fire, and the documents which implicated them in the pillage should be consumed.  They agreed to produce this by arming a number of students; and their agent was an officer in the army, known to belong to the secret societies.  The sum of 200 ducats in gold was paid him as a reward for anticipated services, and 200 stand of arms was provided him.  For such a project this man seemed a fit agent.  He took lodgings in the house where the students met to hold their deliberations, opened to them his revolutionary views, and represented himself as one qualified to rescue their common country from the grasp of despotism.  He so far ingratiated himself into their confidence as to obtain some knowledge of the general plan for the freedom of Poland.  Circumstances, however, created distrust of this new and overzealous auxiliary; and the students refused to act with him, or to receive the muskets the generals had provided for distribution.  Communication having now ceased between Petrikowski and the students, he took lodgings in the next room to that in which they met to hold their deliberations; what he overheard was communicated to the generals; and ten students were in consequence denounced, arrested, and severely flogged (by an arbitrary order of the grand duke,) to make them divulge their associates.  Though writhing under the whip of the executioner, not a word escaped their lips to inculpate their friends, or impart a knowledge of the schemes that had so long engrossed their thoughts.  The severity of the punishment may be conceived by the fact, that one of the number died soon after its infliction.  The students were kept in solitary confinement, and their punishment remained uncertain; universal sympathy was felt for their sufferings by their comrades, coupled with an ardent desire to relieve them; but by this time danger threatened to implicate a great part of their body, and it was ascertained that an order to arrest a great number was to take place on the 30th November.  On the 27th November, an order arrived in Warsaw from the emperor, to send to Riga with all