108 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



' " No, I shall do nothing. You have brought me into 

 this condition, by what I regard as most unjust conduct. 

 I shall leave you to get me out of it as you can." 



' Upon this the German servant was directed to do 

 what was required ; and, had I not helped him from 

 time to time, I believe his trembling hands would never 

 have accomplished the task. 



' " Why is the pauvre Anglais so cross ? " said the Chef 

 de police, in a taunting tone, to the Count. "He seems 

 quite angry." 



" I am angry," 1 replied, " at the violation of justice, 

 which is committed under the name of law/' 



To like treatment he was subjected for many days. 

 Of this full details are given pp. 142-214 but the 

 narrative is too long for citation. His deliverance was 

 the result of the circumstance of three English tourists 

 happening to pass through Grodno, who heard there that 

 one of their countrymen was imprisoned. They were the 

 Rev. W. G. Clark, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, and public orator ; Mr W. Lloyd Birkbeck, 

 Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge ; and the third a 

 member of Balliol College, Oxford. Mr Clark wrote to 

 Lord Napier, British ambassador at St. Petersburg, and 

 Mr Birkbeck to Mr White, the Vice-Consul at Warsaw ; 

 and thus was secured his liberation. But his host was 

 exiled to the frontier of Siberia. Of his ultimate fate 

 Mr Anderson writes : 



' Little more remains to be told of what has since 

 befallen my dear friend, Count Bisping. The first intel- 

 ligence which reached me respecting him was that he 

 had been set free. I was not at all surprised at this ; for 

 I knew that his arrest had produced the greatest excite- 

 ment, and that there was a wide and deeply felt 

 sympathy among all classes for him ; and that every 

 effort was made in Grodno and throughout its neighbour- 

 hood to effect his release. A day or two before my 

 departure I heard that a long train of his tenantry and 



