104 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



While thus spending their time, and devoting much of 

 their leisure to fishing and the chase, the insurrection 

 which was being expected, broke out ; and Mr Anderson 

 records some of the cases of what he considered oppression 

 which came under his notice, when he went with his 

 friend, Count Bisping, to spend the summer months with 

 him on his family estates in Lithuania, little imagining 

 that like treatment was to be given to themselves. But such 

 was the case. He was about to return to Bonn, where he 

 was expected before the end of September, when, most 

 unexpectedly, he and his host together were thrown into 

 prison. Of his arrest and imprisonment he tells : 

 1 On Friday, the fourth of September, we came to Grodno 

 from Wereiki, intending to proceed the following week 

 to Wiercieliszki, and attend the harvest home which was 

 to be there celebrated. We remained in Grodno the 

 whole of Saturday and Sunday ; and, on Monday after- 

 noon, set out for the farm. The weather was beautiful ; 

 the Jew post-master had sent us his best team of four 

 horses to convey us ; and the Count, his German 

 servant, and I left the hotel, about three o'clock, in 

 high spirits; little dreaming of the events that were 

 soon to befall us. 



1 Upon reaching the town barrier, where the passports 

 are always examined, I saw two sentries of the Imperial 

 Guard standing in their dress uniform, in honour of 

 some grand festival. The Count hurried upstairs as 

 usual, with the papers, whilst I remained in the carriage. 

 Hardly had he left me, when a gensdarme came up, 

 and asked whether the carriage in which I was sitting be- 

 longed to Count Bisping. On my replying in the affirma- 

 tive, he told me to go upstairs with the luggage, which 

 consisted of two portmanteaus and a carpet-bag. I was 

 somewhat startled at receiving such an order ; but, 

 without making any remark, at once obeyed it. Count 

 Bisping was even more astonished at seeing me enter 

 the passport office, and asked what was the matter ? I 

 referred him for information to the gensdarme, who 



