The day after we left St. Petersburg we stopped at Koporie to dine; we had taken with us some choice viands and excellent wines.  Two days later we met the famous chapel-master, Galuppi or Buranelli, who was on his way to St. Petersburg with two friends and an artiste.  He did not know me, and was astonished to find a Venetian dinner awaiting him at the inn, as also to hear a greeting in his mother tongue.  As soon as I had pronounced my name he embraced me with exclamations of surprise and joy.

The roads were heavy with rain, so we were a week in getting to Riga, and when we arrived I was sorry to hear that Prince Charles was not there.  From Riga, we were four days before getting to Konigsberg, where Madame Valville, who was expected at Berlin, had to leave me.  I left her my Armenian, to whom she gladly paid the hundred ducats I owed him.  I saw her again two years later, and shall speak of the meeting in due time.

We separated like good friends, without any sadness.  We spent the night at Klein Roop, near Riga, and she offered to give me her diamonds, her jewels, and all that she possessed.  We were staying with the Countess Lowenwald, to whom I had a letter from the Princess Dolgorouki.  This lady had in her house, in the capacity of governess, the pretty English woman whom I had known as Campioni’s wife.  She told me that her husband was at Warsaw, and that he was living with Villiers.  She gave me a letter for him, and I promised to make him send her some money, and I kept my word.  Little Betty was as charming as ever, but her mother seemed quite jealous of her and treated her ill.

When I reached Konigsberg I sold my travelling carriage and took a place in a coach for Warsaw.  We were four in all, and my companions only spoke German and Polish, so that I had a dreadfully tedious journey.  At Warsaw I went to live with Villiers, where I hoped to meet Campioni.

It was not long before I saw him, and found him well in health and in comfortable quarters.  He kept a dancing school, and had a good many pupils.  He was delighted to have news of Fanny and his children.  He sent them some money, but had no thoughts of having them at Warsaw, as Fanny wished.  He assured me she was not his wife.

He told me that Tomatis, the manager of the comic opera, had made a fortune, and had in his company a Milanese dancer named Catai, who enchanted all the town by her charms rather than her talent.  Games of chance were permitted, but he warned me that Warsaw was full of card-sharpers.  A Veronese named Giropoldi, who lived with an officer from Lorrain called Bachelier, held a bank at faro at her house, where a dancer, who had been the mistress of the famous Afflisio at Vienna, brought customers.

Major Sadir, whom I have mentioned before, kept another gaming-house, in company with his mistress, who came from Saxony.  The Baron de St. Heleine was also in Warsaw, but his principal occupation was to contract debts which he did not mean to pay.  He also lived in Villier’s house with his pretty and virtuous young wife, who would have nothing to say to us.  Campioni told me of some other adventurers, whose names I was very glad to know that I might the better avoid them.