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(1907) [MARC] Author: Thomas Alfred Fischer
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to whom they delivered a letter, saying that they had
orders to pursue Sinclair, who harboured designs dangerous
to the whole Christian world. Schaffgotsch replied that
if they arrested Sinclair he should keep him in safe but
respectable custody; in the meantime he had taken
notice of the addresses and contents of his letters. The
Russians left the town towards twelve o’clock in the night
on fresh horses, after having bought two sabres, and after
having given out everywhere that Sinclair was a spy.
Near Griinberg, only about three miles from the Saxon
frontier, they came up with the travellers, and commanded
the postilion to stop. Having ascertained the names of
those inside, they announced to them that they had
orders to carry them back to Breslau. The coach was
turned, but not in the direction of that city. On a little
eminence, sparsely overgrown with underwood, a halt was
made, and whilst some of the pursuers ransacked the
portmanteaus and the other luggage, Sinclair was decoyed
to a lonely spot a little way off the road. Couturier
heard a shot, saw Sinclair give a jump among the bushes,
crying, “ Mon Dieu, Jésus, mon Dieu.” Then all was
still. The murderers then tried to calm the trembling
Frenchman, who was begging them to spare his life, telling
him in Latin1 to fear nothing, for it would be a pity to
hurt him “probum virum sicut te.” But the other, they
continued, had been punished justly, for he was an enemy
of the “ Master of the Order.” “Those who are enemies
of the Order are enemies of God.” Then they took their
seats in the coach and drove rapidly off in the direction of
Dresden, with Couturier as a prisoner. It was the 17th
of June, 1739. On the road they advised Couturier for

1 “Ne timeas! Peccatum esset contra Spiritum sanctum male facere viro
probo sicut te (!). Iste habuit quod merebat, erat inimicus Magistri,
ini-micu8 Magistri est inimicus Dei et puto me non peccasse interficiendoeum.,,

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