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“ My house, and all that it contains are yours;” but at 
the same moment, I must acknowledge, it is not rare, 
through a signal that the servants perfectly well under- 
-stand, for the supposed new proprietor to be ever after 
shown the door of the habitation so liberally offered to 
him. The reception of Carnot in Poland, however, 
must not be included in this category. Our excellent 
friends, the brave Poles, did not confine themselves to 
mere forms of politeness towards the illustrious exile. 
General Krasinski made over to him a mayoralty in 
land of 8,000 frances per annum, that he held from Na- 
poleon ; the Count de Pag wished him to accept the pos- 
session of several domains. Although Carnot was not a 
Freemason, all the Masonic Lodges of the kingdom 
joined in a subscription that produced a considerable 
sum; finally, and of all these offers that he refused, the 
following went most directly to the heart of Carnot; a 
Frenchman, poor himself, established at Warsaw for 
many years, went to him one morning, carrying a bag 
with the savings of his whole life ! 
The severity of the Polish climate, the wish to be 
nearer to France, determined our colleague to accept the © 
kind offers of the Prussian Government; he settled at 
Magdebourg, where he passed his latter years in study, 
in meditation, and in the company of one of his sons, 
whose education he superintended. It was, Gentlemen, 
a fine spectacle to see the whole of Europe, above all to 
see the absolute monarchs, forced in some measure to 
render homage to one of the greatest, most noble, most 
striking men in the French Revolution; even to one of 
the judges of Louis XVI., even to a member of the 
Committee of Public Safety. 
Carnot died at Magdebourg, the 2d of August, 1823, 
aged 70 years. 
