gave original Despatches, he received
them back shortly after, and replaced them in the presses. During this
present stay of the Court at Warsaw, has communicated little to Benoit
except from the CIRCULARS [Legation NEWS-LETTERS], when he found
anything noteworthy in them; also, now and then, the Ponikau Despatches
[Ponikau being at the Reich's Diet, in circumstances interesting to us].
Has received, one time and another, several 100 thalers from Benoit,
since the Court came hither last."--(And so EXIT Menzel.)

"Hereupon the Second Prisoner was brought in;--who deposed as follows:--

"He is named Johann Benjamin Erfurth; a goldsmith by trade; age
thirty-two; the Prisoner Menzel's Brother-in-law.

"Confesses that Menzel had made use of him, at Dresden, during one
year: to deliver, several times, sealed papers to the Prussian Secretary
Plessmann, or rather mostly to Plessmann's servant. Also that, here in
Warsaw, he has had to carry Despatches to Benoit, and to deliver them
into his own hands. Latterly he has delivered the Despatches to certain
Prussian peasants, who stopped at Benoit's, and who always relieved each
other; and every time, the one who went away directed Prisoner, in turn,
to him that arrived.

"He received from Menzel, yesterday towards noon, a small sealed
packet, which he was to convey to the Prussian peasant who had made an
appointment with him at the Prussian Office (HOF) here. But as he
was going to take it, and had just got outside of the Palace Court, a
corporal took hold of him and arrested him. Confesses having concealed
the parcel in his trousers-pocket, and to have denied that he had
anything upon him.... ACTUM UT SUPRA."

Signed "GOTZE" (with titles).

"Next day, September 26th, Menzel re-examined; answers in effect
following:--

"Plessmann never himself came into the Archive Office at Dresden; except
the one time [a time that will be notable to us!] when the Prussians
were there to take away the Papers by force; then Plessmann was with
them,"--and we will remember the circumstance.

"Before leaving Dresden for Poland, last Year (1756), he, Menzel, had
returned the said key to Plessmann; who gave him others for use here.
After his arrival here, he returned these keys to Benoit, in the
presence of Erfurth; saying, they were of no use to him, and that he
could not get at the Despatches here. Prisoner farther declares, that it
was the Minister von Mahlzahn who, of his own accord, and qui