LITHUANIA AND ITS PEOPLE. 99 



Of the treatment to which men of their order were 

 subject twenty years ago, a picture is given by the Rev. 

 Fortescue L. M. Anderson in a little volume entitled 

 Seven Months Residence in Russian Poland in 1863. 



In 1863 the Rev. Fortescue L. M. Anderson accepted 

 an invitation from Count Alexander von Bisping-Galen to 

 accompany him to his estate of Wereiki in Lithuania, he 

 having made his acquaintance at the University of Bonn, 

 where his father held the appointment of English 

 chaplain. The Count was in his political views what was 

 known as a Conservative Pole, that is one who was 

 opposed to insurrection ; and as indicative of the desire of 

 the Count to avoid even the appearance of sympathy 

 with the disaffected it is mentioned by Mr Anderson, in 

 giving a narrative of their journey, in prosecuting which 

 they had reached Konigsberg, ' he (the Count) had bought 

 some time before a pair of guns and pistols of superior 

 workmanship, which he naturally wished to carry home 

 with him. But to have tried to introduce these with his 

 own luggage at the Russian frontier would have been to 

 expose them to certain seizure, and himself probably to 

 heavy penalties. To have sent them (as he might have 

 done) by boat up the river, along with a reaping machine 

 which he had bought in England, and which was now 

 awaiting his arrival in Konigsberg, would have been 

 simply an evasion of the law, and have subjected him to 

 the charge of secretly supplying arms for the insurgents. 

 He resolved, therefore, at once to abstain from any and 

 every attempt, directly or indirectly, to make use of the 

 guns and pistols which he prized so highly; and begged 

 me to ask my father, in the letter I was then writing, to 

 take charge of them. They were accordingly sent off to 

 Bonn, before our departure from Konigsberg ; and my 

 father has them still in his possession, with the cases 

 unopened.' 



They found everywhere an abundance of military, but 

 the first offensive conduct which they saw was at Grodno. 

 ' From Wilna our next journey was to Grodno ; the 



