210 POSTSCRIPT AND DEDICATION. a pattern for my Frederica's imitation-a pattern which she might nearly be said to equal. To whom but to thee, MOST EXCELLENT, MOST AMIABLE MADAME ROSE, To thee who wast a mother to us, at a time when we were far removed from our natural mother!—Oh, how solacing to the heart is it to acknowledge kindness that has been deeply felt! Alas! thy daughter rests in her long last sleep !— Oh, do not cast from thee thy forsaken son!-Thy daughter now repeats thy name with gratitude before the throne of God! She kneels to the fountain of eternal light, holding her Maurice by the hand!-her good, her worthy Maurice! Both beg a blessing upon thee, and my prayer ascends to mix with the intercessions and rejoicings of the blessed. AUGUSTUS VON KOTZEBUE. END OF THE FLIGHT TO PARIS. THE MOST REMARKABLE YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AUGUSTUS VON KOTZEBUE; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EXILE INTO SIBERIA, AND OF THE OTHER EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS WHICH HAPPENED TO HIM IN RUSSIA. DEDICATION. To my noble and generous Protectors,—his excellency M. de KUSCHELEFF, Counsellor of State, and Governor of Tobolsk; his excellency M. de RICHTER, Counsellor of State, and Governor of Livonia ;-to my noble and generous Friends in the hour of need, Madmae LÖWENSTERN (formerly Mademoiselle de Bayer) at Wolmershoff; M. ECHARDT, Secretary to the Regency of Riga; M. PROVOST KOCH, and his respectable Lady, at Jesse; M. DE KNORRING, Provincial of the Chamber, and his worthy Lady, at Charlottenthal; M. SECRETARY HUEK, at Revel; and M. CHARLES GEORGE GRAUMANN, at Petersburgh. Nor brass nor marble bears your honour'd names; Your gen'rous succour pierced Siberia's gloom, |