about ten o'clock
Casimir Pulaski was the most daring of their leaders ; and , assisted by Lukawski , Strawenski , and Kosinski , three Poles unworthy of their names , he resolved to accomplish his design or perish . Accordingly , these men , with forty other conspirators , in the presence of their commander swore with the most horrid oaths to deliver Stanislaus alive or dead into his hands . `` About a month after this meeting , these three parricides of their country , at the head of their coadjutors , disguised as peasants , and concealing their arms in wagons of hay , which they drove before them , entered the suburbs of Warsaw undetected . `` It was about ten o'clock P. M. , on the 3d of September , as I have told you , they found an apt opportunity to execute their scheme . They placed themselves , under cover of the night , in those avenues , of the city through which they knew his majesty must pass in his way from Villanow , where he had been dining with me . His carriage was escorted by four of his own guards , besides myself and some of mine . We had scarcely lost sight of Villanow , when the conspirators rushed out and surrounded us , commanding the coachman to stop , and beating down the serving men with the butt ends of their muskets .