he expired, and had seen him buried, were at that time 160
miles from the regiment, and recruiting in Sclavonia. Paul Diack had
engaged in plots, and had mutinied three times. Trenck had pardoned him,
but afterwards mutinying once more, with forty others, he was condemned
to death. At the place of execution he called to his colonel: "Father,
if I receive a thousand blows, will you pardon me?" Trenck replied in
the affirmative. He received the punishment, was taken to the hospital,
and cured.

I brought fourteen more witnesses from Sclavonia, who attested the
falsity of other articles of accusation which were not worthy of
attention. The cause wore a new aspect; and the wickedness of those who
were so desirous to have seen Trenck executed became apparent.

One of the chief articles in the prosecution, which for ever deprived him
of favour from his virtuous and apostolic mistress, and for which alone
he was condemned to the Spielberg, was, that he had ravished the daughter
of a miller in Silesia. This was made oath of, and he was not entirely
cleared of the charge in the revision, because his accusers had excluded
all means of justification. Two years after his death, I discovered the
truth of this affair. Mainstein accused him of this crime that he might
prevent his return to the regiment; his motive was, because he, in
conjunction with Frederici, had appropriated to their own purposes 8,000
florins of regimental money.

This miller's daughter was the mistress of Mainstein, before she had been
seen by Trenck. Maria Theresa, however, would never forgive him; and, to
satisfy the honour of this damsel, he was condemned to pay 8,000 florins
to her, and 15,000 to the chest of the invalids, and to suffer perpetual
imprisonment. Sixty-three civil suits had I to defend, and all the
appeals of his accusers to terminate after his death. I gained them all
and his accusers were condemned in costs, also to refund the so much per
day which had been paid them by General Loewenwalde; but they were all
poor, and I might seek the money where I could. In justice, Loewenwalde
ought to have reimbursed me. The total of the sum they received was
15,000 florins.

Most of the other articles of accusation consisted in Trenck's having
beheaded some mutinous pandours, and broken his officers without a court-
martial; that he had bought of his soldiers, and melted down the holy
vessels of the church, chalices, and rosaries; had bast