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plan of escape, I wrung from the Emperor the promise to send 

 for Baron Magnus, as also for the lawyers, and oftered to 

 travel to Mexico to bring them to him. 



I did not insist on the sending for Baron Magnus because I 

 thought much of either his skill or energy, but only because he 

 was the one man from whom we might expect ready money, 

 which seemed to me more important than anything else. 



As I was afraid that General Marquez might arrest me in 

 Mexico, the Emperor wrote to him the following letter : — 



* To D. Leonardo Marquez, Division-General. 



* My dear General, 



' The bearer of these lines is Princess Salm, vcho has the 

 kindness to go to Mexico for the arrangement of family affairs of much 

 importance, and to speak with the lawyers who will defend me. You 

 will, for the time of her sojourn in Mexico, and for her return to Quereturo 

 do all that can be useful and agreeable to the Princess. 



Yours affectesimo, 



'MAXMILIAN'O.' 



Re gave me also a letter to Baron Magnus, which my hus- 

 band has published in his above-quoted book, and two others 

 for the two eminent lawyers, Riva Palacios and Martinez de 

 la Torre, who were to defend him ; a few lines also for Father 

 Fischer, in which was enclosed the following letter concerning 

 the private money of the Emperor, which I publish here, be- 

 cause the money mentioned in it, which I was to bring to the 

 Emperor with me, had disappeared without anybody knowing 

 what had become of it. 



* To the Secretary of the Cabinet, IMr. Augustin Fischer. 



. ' * Queretaro, March 29, 1867. 



*By these presents you are ordered to try to collect the following 

 amount : — 



Dollars. 



Civil list, due ult of March. ...••• io,oco 



Expenses of my household in that month, • . • 1,500 



Civil list for April. ....•••• 10,000 



Household i»500 



Civil list due for the first 15 days of May. , , . . 5,000 



Household. •••«••«•• 75^ 



28,750 



