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the next clay loaded with chains, and conveyed to 
Petersburg, where all further communication with 
each other was prevented. 
He was shortly after summoned before Orlow and 
Czernichew, who endeavoured to extract from him 
many important particulars; but not being able to 
effect their purpose, either by threats, or promises of 
pardon, he was remanded to prison. Some days after, 
he was again summoned before the commission, who 
compelled him to sign the following declaration :— 
I, the undersigned, acknowledge that I not only 
wished to break my chains, but that I committed as¬ 
sassination, and have been guilty of treason against 
her Imperial Majesty; and if her Majesty, through 
her natural goodness, shall be pleased to soften the 
rigour of my sentence, I hereby engage, after recover¬ 
ing my liberty, never to set a foot again in the domi¬ 
nions of her Majesty, much less to bear arms against 
her. 
Baron Maurice Augustus Aladar 
de Benyowski, 
General of the First Confederation. 
Petersburg , Nov. 22,1769. 
Two days after signing this paper, an officer came 
to him at midnight, at the head of twenty-eight men, 
and putting irons on his legs, hurried him into a car¬ 
riage, and set off towards Moscow ; and from thence, 
by a tedious and painful route, during which he was 
fed only with bread and water, as far as Tobolsk, the 
