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& never saw him again. When asked if I knew him, I recounted with the truthfulness and loyalty that you have always seen in me, all that I knew. All the papers I owned were turned over so they could be examined by administrators. If, though there were many, one found there a single suspicious line, I would accept the harshest of treatments. On the contrary, one must have seen there in the different memoirs & projects, a man whose knowledge of military things was used only for the well-being of his country. I am being advised to have patience. The administrators whom I can only praise, for using the most honest behaviors despite the severity of their moral duty, seem convinced that there is nothing there to reproach me, & left me to think that everything depended on the Comité du Salut Public. I was assured that the Mayor requested in vain that the Comité took care of me. I suggested that by asking to see known patriots, such as you, Drouet & Chabot, the public matter would not suffer even if I were guilty; which you were just as entitled, & maybe more so, to the trust of the nation, than the members of this Comité. They rejected my request. I requested to be brought face to face with my accusers, if there were any, they refused as well. To be judged by the Police, by the Revolutionary Court, they refused as well. It is up to your judgement to dictate the steps you should take. My only wish is that the patriots of the Convention can know of my affair; if I have done the slightest wrong, I agree they should abandon me.