One of the editors of the Kölnische Zeitung, worthy Schwanbeck, 
has issued a statement? about his misfortunes in Elberfeld, in which 
he also alleges that an “editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung’ acted 
as an informer against him. All that the editor of the Neue Rheinische 
Zeitung referred to knows about the affair is as follows. Whilst 
holding an official appointment in Elberfeld,“ he was asked by a 
member of the Committee of Public Safety to identify two gentlemen 
who claimed to have come from Cologne and who were being 
detained in the cells at the town hall; one of these gentlemen was 
none other than worthy Schwanbeck. He declared in the presence of 
the latter that he would make it his business to see that that 
gentleman was to be expelled from the town the next morning, 
which was indeed done. He also recounted to his friend, the member 
of the Committee of Public Safety, an episode concerning Herr 
Schwanbeck’s connection with Police Inspector Brendamour, which 
had already been made public by Herr C. Cramer in the Wachter am 
Rhein? That was the extent of the “informing”. 

Incidentally whether, as worthy Schwanbeck maintains, “there is 
nothing to spy on in Elberfeld”, no one is in a better position to say 
than the Prussian officer who is still detained as a spy in Elberfeld 
and who was promptly arrested whilst roaming around there under 
a false name.