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9 the following work in the German language? 3 
= The firſt, printed at Vienna; the ſecond, at 
Berlin. Each f theſe has been-mutilated, it ©: 

certain places , by the cenſor, as it may: be. are 
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colonel in the Kiow regiment of cuiraſſiers, 
with whom, leaving Pruſſia, ſnhe went and 
reſided at Breſlaw. I had two brothers and 
a ſiſter: my youngeſt brother was taken, by 
my mother, into Sileſia: the other was a 
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ſervice, and wich whom ſhe lived, in Bran- 
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the wiſe; ; to the world at large; Doping we 
my ſtory may afford uſeful leſſons of mora= . 1 
lity, inſpiring patience, hope, and fortitude.” 
Enough therefore of, and'for ever adicv, t 0 
my noble anceſtry: what I have ſaid is nit? 
ficient to reſcue my children from all 7 
tended obloquy ; ; to ſhow they are not v vallals 
born; and, as I truſt, to inſpire them win 4 ; 


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flowing f from. ne. made the labours, of 1 
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f and ancient hiſtory; was intimately ac- 

| quaiated- with geography; ; could draw ac- 

I curately, and learnt fencing, riding, and 

1 neceflary exerciſes. 8 „ i 

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ö . and. not ſuperſtitious bigotry, or childiſh 

| 8 fears, Mas taught me by my father, and by 

| "oF the worthy. r man to whoſe care he commit- 

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d 1 ſhall ever hold in veneration. While a 

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| cules: - "the. warmth of my paſſions, then and 
* = = gave a ſatyric biting caſt to my 
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1 meanneſs, I had long ſince become eld. 
marſhal, had been in quiet Poſſeſſion of my 
h Hungarian eſtates, and had not paſſed 
ie beſt years of my life in che dungeons of 
* Magdeburg, I was addicted to no vice; 


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demand with contempt; and I, forgering 
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attacked him in open day. , We fought, 
and J had the fortune to wound him twice; 
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with whom I was a great favourite, was ſo 
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5 priverkir of Königſberg was ſtill highly 
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ted, but would haye been difficult to pre- 
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| Livonia, Courland, Sweden, Denmark; and 
Poland, who came chither to ſtudy, and off 

' whom there were more than five hund ted. 
. This brought the univerſity into diſte- 
3 pute, and endeavours have been made ta 
"remedy the abuſe. Men have acquired a 

bester extent of true knowledge, and have 
3 F begunt9-perceive that a univerſity! ought” 
| „ a place of inſtruction, and not a _ . 
battle; and that blood cannot be 0 5 
* }nourably ſhed, except in defence ol be or. 
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hatant-general, baron Lottum, Who was 
" lated $0 my mother, to Köniſberg, veith 
1 dined at my grandfather's. He 
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| _ - flamed with the deſire of di nguiſhing my- * 
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- their uniform was the moſt ſplendid in. all 5 
Europe. Two [thouſand rix-dollars were i 


3 to equip an officer: the cuiraſs 
Was wholly plated with ſilver ; and the horſe- 
furniture and accoutrements alone coſt four 
Veen i dollars. 


= This ſquadron only contalhea Fs dees 


"and a hundred and forty- four men; but 
bene were always fifty or ſixty ſupernume- 
+ Taries, and as many horſes; for the 
| ipod all the moſt handſome mer he 
found in theſe guards. The officers were 
the beſt taught of any the army contained; 
the king himſelf was their tutor, and he 
| afterwards ſent them to inſtruct the cavalry 
zn the manoeuvres they had fearnt. "Their 
-+ riſe Was rapid, if they behaved well; but 
they were broken for the leaft fault, 1 
Fenbed by being ſent to garriſon regi- 
ments. It was likewiſe neceſſary they _ 
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during the time 1 Was in, the ſervice wy 
Frederic 1 often had not eight hours ſleep 
in eight days. Exerciſe began at four in 
the morning, and experiments were mi 
of all the alterations the king meant to in- 5 
troduce in his cavalry. Ditches of three, 2 
four, five, fix, feet, and ſtill wider, we 4 
leaped, till that ſome one broke his neck; 
"HON: 1 in like manner, were freed ; and 93 
| horſe ran careers, meeting each other a 


PE ſpeed, in a kind of liſts of more than half a 


league in length. We had often, in thels - 3 

our exerciſes, ſeveral men 1 and horſes killed | 3 

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. wiſe, that the ſame experiments were res 
peated after dinner with freſh horſes ; "and. 0 
it was not uncommon, at- Porzdam, to her 

bs alarm founded twice in a night.” The 1 
horſes ſtood in the king's ſtables; 8 JE 1 ; 
whoever had not Areſſed, atmeck himſelf 
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under arreſt for fourteen . 
Scarcely were the eyes cloſed before be 
ere again ſounded, to accuſtom youth 
to vigilance. I loſt, in one year, three 
horſes, which had either broken their kgs : 
in leaping ditches, or died of fatigue. - . +. 
1 cannot give a ſtronger picture of this 
. than by ſaying that the body guard 
"oft more men and horſes in one year's 
W than they did, during the e 
Pear in two battles. 
We had, at this time, three 3 3 our 
ſervice, in the winter, was at Berlin; where 
we attended the opera, and all public feſti- 
Vals: in the ſpring we were exerciſed at 
| Charlocaburg) and at Potzdam, or where- + 
ever the king went, during the. ſummer. 


| 4 * Tbe ſix officers of the guard dined with the ITE 
|. 7 and on gala days with the queen. 


It may be preſumed, there was not, at that 


time, on earch, a better ſchool to form. an 
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: the morrow.”.. ß. 
His attention was to find whether the 
. accounts that had been given him of my. 
memory had not been exaggerated ;. and, 
that he might be convinced, he firſt gave me 
the names of fifty ſoldiers to learn by W 4 
which I did in five minutes He next; : 
peated the ſubjects of two letters, 
immediately compoſed: in French and Bs 

- tin; the one I wrote, the other I diftats 8 
He afterwards ordered me ta Trace; | 
promptitude, a landſcape from nature, 0 w 


gave me a carnet's commiſſion 
1 guards. 8 ö : ©, > : 
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© eſtimate the gifts beſtowed 'on me by Na. 
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much he might expett from me, 8 at 1 8 
once my inſtructor and my friend; © 

| © Thus did 1 remain a cadet only fix weeks ; 

* * 8 few Pruſſians can vaunt, under the e 325 

| of Frederic, of equal good fortune, 
The king not only preſented me with a 

| commilton but equipped me ſplendidly for 
© the ſervice. Thus did 1 ſuddenly find my- 

* ſelf a courtier, and an officer in the fineſt, 

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were employed in the duties of an officer, 
and my nights in acquiring Knowledge. : 3 
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| NE 5 of 1743 the nuptials of his majeſtys 
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Satan. 1, as officer of my corps, had 5 
che honour to mount guard, and eſcort her 
as far as Stettin. Here firſt did my heart 
feel a paſſion of which, in the courſe of 

my hiſtory, I ſhall have frequent occaſion to 

| ſpeak. The object of my love was one 

* whom I can only remember at preſent with x 

© reverence; and, as I write not romance, 
but facts, I ſhall here briefly ſay, ours were 

4 - mutually the firſt fruits of affection, and 
= that to this hour I regret no misfortune, no 
= miert. with which, from a ſtock ſo noble, 
my deſtiny was overſhadowed. Amid the 
| tum, inſeparable to oecaſions like theſe, | 
on which it was my duty to maintain order. 
A thief tad the addreſs to ſteal my watch, 
"and cut away a part of the gold fringe 
Which hung from the waiſtcoat of my uni- 
bn. and aſterwards to eſcape unper· 
ceived. This accident brought on me the 
ee of my comrades; and the lady © 
1 3 alluded to thence took occaſion. to con- 
ſole me, by faying, It ſhould be her care 
det 15 ſhould: be no loſer,” £ Her words 15 
ere eee by a look 1 could 1. 


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0 thought myſelf the happieſt of mortals. 42 
The name, however, of this high-born lady 5 
is a ſecret, which muſt deſtend with me 
to the grave; and, though my filence con- 
cCerning this incident leaves à void in my 
ä life, and indeed throws obſcurity aver a. 
part of it which might. elſe be clear, 1 
would much rather incur this reproach, 
than become ungrateful toward my 2 
friend and benefactreſs. To her converia- 
dilon, to her prudence, to the power 1 4 
Which ſhe fixed my affections whally on her- 8 3 
ſelf, am I indebted for the Improvement 
aud poliſhing of my bodily and mental e 
lities. She never deſpiſed, . 
abandoned me, even in the despeft of . my 
"* "diſtreſs ; ; and my children alone, on N 
ne” -bed, ſhall- be taught the name of her 1 
to whom they owe the preſervation of- wer ig 1 
father, and, eee ther, own, © 2 ile. 1 
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fatal deſtiny has deprived my children bf an a. 3 
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on their ſide; and the churches of both par- 


ties reſound with prayers, and appeals to 
Divine Juſtice, for the ſucceſs of their arms. 
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- , came before Prague on the fourteenth . 1 
September; and that of general Schwerin, 
- _ which had paſſed through Sileſia, arrived - 
tte next day on the other fide of the Mol- * 
j . Gan. Is. this poſition we were abliged to 
ve could not "Eſtabliſh a communication be- 
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bombs and red-hot „em. that it was ſet un 
tre. The king made every effort to take | 
the city, deore prince Charles could bing 1 
ä his army from the Rhine to its relief. - 
General Harſch chought proper to capi- 
tülate, after a ſiege of twelve days, durit ing 
which not more than five hundred men of 
the garriſon, at the utmoſt, were killed and 
wounded, though eighteen | thouſand men 
were made priſoners. 2 
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ment. The Imperial army, however, un- 
der the command of Prince Charles of Lor- Rf 
- | raine, having quitted the banks of the 2, 8 
Rhine, was advancing to ſave Bohemia. a. ; | 4 
"During this campaign we fa e enemy | 
. only at a diſtance; but the Auſtrian light 
troops, being thrice as numerous as ours, 
prevented us from all foraging Wipter 
N was approaching; dearth and hunger made 
Frederic determine to rettrat, without be 
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korſe, began to grow extreme. The we 
ther was bad; the roads and ruts were deep, 


marches were continual, and alarms: and at- 
tacks from the enemy's light troops became 


inceſſant. The diſcontent all theſe inſpired: 


was univerſal, and this occaſioned the great 1 
loſs of the amy: 1 
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Charles continued to haraſs us, by purſu- = 
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campaign, inſtead of remaining indolently 


at eaſe in Bohemia, we certainly ſnould nor 
have vanquiſhed him, the year following, Y 
at Strigau; but he only. followed at a di- 
ſtance, as far as the Bohemian frontiers; | 
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* cague was*obliged to be abandoned, 
w conſiderable loſs; and Trenck ſeized 
> Tabor, Budweis, and F rauenberg, where 
be took priſoners the . of Walrabe 
| d Kreutz.” 

No one would have beak betzer cle. to 
ive a faithful hiſtory of this campaign than 
myſelf, had I room in this place, and had 
I at. that time been more attentive to things 
of moment; ſince I not only performed the 
| e of adjutant to the king, when he 
went to reconnoitre, or chooſe a place of 
eneampment, but it was, moreover, my 
- any fo: provide forage for the head quar- 
ten The king having only permitted me 
40; take fix volunteers from the bady guard, 
to execute this latter duty, I was obliged 
to add to them horſe chaſſe urs, and huſſars, 
with whom I was continually in motion. 1 


? 15 as peculiarly fortunate on two occaſions, 


1 happening to come after the enemy, 
When they had left loaded ee and o Py 
2 i bundles. „„ 
1 a + feldom paſſed the nike in my b tent * | 
e 8 + 4 and my indefatigable. , 2 


activity obtained the an and entire edits 
fidence of Frederic. Nothing ſo much 
contributed to inſpire me with emulation 
as the public praiſes Lreceivedß and my en. 
thuſiaſm wiſhed to perform Wonders. The 
campaign, however, but ill ſupplied me 
with opportunities to diſplay my youthft 
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notwithſtanding the extremity ot the dearth. A 
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N NN ſooner were we arrived in Sileſta than 


as king body guard Was ſent to Ben, 9 
there to remain in winter quarters Lt Age 7.9 
J v4 ſhould not here have me Yonec the - 
BVobemian war, but chat, wiiie 0 3 


hiſtory of my life, T ought Hot to omĩt ac 

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IF chaſſeurs, to a manſion- houſe, to ſeize 
5 the carts neceſſary for the conveyance of 
I the hay and ſtraw from a neighbouring 
* farm. An Auſtrian lieutenant. of huſſars, 
concealed. with thirty-ſix horſemen. in a 
wood, having remarked the weakneſs of 
my eſcort, taking advantage of the mo- 
ment when my people were all employed 
=p in loading the carts, firſt ſeized our ſentinel, 
Y and then fell ſuddenly upon them, and 
=. took them all priſoners in the very farm- 
yard. At this moment I was ſeated at my 
=: caſe, beſide the lady of the manſion-houſe, 
. and was a ſpectator of the whole wranſaCtion | 
=K through the window. -, ; c 115 
I was aſhamed of and in Ae at an N 
. neghgence. - The kind lady wiſhed to hide 
me when. the firing was heard in the farm- 
E yard. By good fortune the huſſars, whom 
11 had ſtationed in the convent, had learnt 
2 from "A peaſant that there was an Auftrian ; 
ment in the wood; they had ſeen us 
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which I put myſelf at their head. Some of 


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door, but we made two and twenty priſon- 


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z were in the plain. [ therefore determined 
to take a long, winding, but ſecret route, 
and had the good fortune to come ſafe to 
ere, with my Priſoners, and five and 
twenty loaded arts, The king Was at 
dinner. when I entered bis tent. Having 
been abſent all night, it was imagined L 
had been taken, that accident having "oy 
e. the ſame day, to many others. 
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f . . anſwered I; I have brought five 
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moment, in waiting before bibs tent; he q ; 
conſequently aſked me few queſtions, and 
to thoſe he did aſk I replied tremblingly. Ia 
a few minutes he roſe from table, gave a 
glance at the priſoners, hung the Order of . 
Merit round my neck, commanded me Ly 4 I 
to 89 and take repoſe, and ſet off with his 
Il is eaſy to conceive * embarraGinen of - = 
my ſituation; my unpardonable negtigence 
deſerved that T ſhould have been broken, ; | 1 
_ Inſtead of which I was rewarded; an in- 
ſtance, this, of the great influence of 7 Y 
chance on the affairs of the world. How 4 
many generals have gained victories by 2 
their very errors, which have been afzers 3 
wards attributed. to their genius! ! It is evi 4 
dent, the ſerjeant of huffars, who: retooœx 
me and my men, by bringing tp his hardy; "<0 


alluſion, apparently is to the mn he 1 7 
Matadore at the game of Quadille. 8585 55 135 £ 2 5 
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- recompenſe I received. On how many oc- 
enfions have I fince met with diſgrace and 


puniſhment, when I deferved reward! My 
inquietude leſt the truth ſhould be diſcover- 


ed was extreme, eſpecially recollecting how 


many people were in the ſecret; and ny 


apprehenſions were inceſſant. 


As I did not want money, I gave the * 


3 jeants twenty ducats each, and the ſoldiers | 
= one, in order to inſure their filence, which, 
| being a favourite with them, they readily 


promiſed. I however was determined to 
declare the truth the very Arſt cen 
ad this happened a few days after. 

We were on our march, and I; as cor- 
net, was at the head of my company, when 
the king, advancing, beckoned me to come 
to him, and bade me tell kim exactly how 
the affair 1 had M kate een _——__ in 
| happened. 

The queſtion at firſt made me miſtruſt | 
1 was betrayed :. but, remarking the king 
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pleaſed with my ſincerity. He ſpoke to 
me for half an hour, not as a king, but as 
a father, praiſed my candour, and ended 
with the following words, which while life i 
remains I ſhall never forget c Confide in 
ce the advice I give you; depend wholly : 4 
upon me, and I will make you a man. 
Whoever can feel may imagine how infi- 3 
nitely my gratitude toward the king was B 3 
increaſed; by this his great goodneſs; from 
that moment I had no other ee thes to ñ⁵ 


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had in me after this explanation, of Which -Y 


5 I received very frequent marks, the follow. 


ing winter, at Berlin He permitted me. 43 


to be -preſent at his converſations with hes 5 

literati of his Oung and FE: ſtate” was e 

ehviable. FF . 
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had too little diſguiſe for a courtier, ae 
heart was much too open and frank. 
Before 1 proceed, . I will here ler an 
Meident Which happened during the. laſt 
campaign, and which will, no doubt, be 
read in the hiſtory of Frederic. 
On the route while retreating; a. 
hem, the. king came to Kollin, with 
his horſe guards, the cavalry piquets. of the 
head qwarters, and the ſecond and thi d 
Hbattalions of guards. We had only four 
field pieces, and our ſquadron was ſtation- 
ed in one of the ſuburbs. Our advance 
, toward evening, were driven back 
into the town, and the huſſar sentered pell- 
mell: the enemy's light troops ſwarmed 
oyer the country, and my commanding of- 
ficer ſent me immediately to receive the 
"King's 9 orders. After much ſearch, I found 
him at the top of a ſteeple, with a teleſcope. 
in his band. Never did I ſee him fo. diſ- 
turbed, or undecided; as on this. occaſion.” 
1 Orders were e e given that we; 
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ſhould: retreat through the city into che of. 
pofite ſuburb, where we were & hak, Bue 
not unſaddle. 0 7461 un ef 216007 4 
2 We had not been Hers 169g dete a moſt 

heavy rain fell, and tlie night became e 

ceedingly dark. My couſin Trenck made 

his approach. about nine in the evening 
with his pandour and janiſſary muſic, and 

ſet fire to ſeveral houſes. They found we. 4 
were in the ſuburb, and began te fire bon 

us from the city windows.” The tune bes | 
came extreme; the city was too full for u 
to re-enter: the gate was ſhuty and they 

fired from above at us with our field pieces. 

Trenck had let in the waters upon us, ane 
we were up to the eirths by midnight, ane 
almoſt in deſpair. We loſt ſeven men, an 
my horſe was wounded 1 in the neck; e 4 


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The king and all of us hach certainly He! * b 
made priſoners,” had my ccufin, as die ul 
ſince told me, been able to continue . 
aſſault he had begun; ; but, * cannon-ball 2 
having wounded him in the foot, * Wa i 
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corps of Naſſau arrived next day t to our 
aid; we quitted Kollin, and, during the 
march, the King ſaid to me, © Your couſin 


22 had- nearly played us a malicious prank 
«laſt. night; but the deſerters ſay he is 


us killed.“ He then aſked me what our 
3 1 Fay and there our converſa 


tion ended. 


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It was. about hed middle, of 3 


When we came to Berlin, where I was re- 
ceived with open arms. I. became leſs cau- 
tiaus than formerly, A perhaps was more. 

narrowly. obſerved... A. lieutenant of the 
TM guards, who was a public Ganymede, 


and againſt whom I. had that. natural anti- 


ay and abhorrence I have for all ſuch. 
Vretches, having indulged himſelf in ſome. 
very impertinent jokes on the ſecret of my. 
amour, I beſtowed on him the epithet he 
ME Greed, We drew.. our ſwords,: and he 


b 5 was wounded. On: the. ſunday. following, 
* 1 preſented myſelf to pay my reſpects to his. 5 
. Arn ON: the par ade, wha. ſaid to me, ass 


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« all- FT your bean; beware d. . He 
added nothing more. 2520] 
Some little time after,. 1 Was a RP. mi- 

nutes too late on the parade; the king re- 
marked it, and ſent me under arreſt, to 

che foot guard at Potzdam. When Ta 
been here a fortnight, ' col. Wartenſleben 
came, and adviſed me to petition -for pars 
don. I was then too much a novice in the 
modes of the court to follow his. counſel 
nor did I eyen-remark the perſon who: gave” 

it me was himſelf a moſt ſubtle courtier, 1 
complained bitterly that I had ſo long been 

deprived of liberty, for a fault which was 
uſually puniſhed - by three, or, at moſt, 3 
. ſix days arreſt... Heres n 1 ba 1 

mained. 8 3 

Eight days fen thaw "Ee bring carat 
to Potzdam, I was ſent by general Bourke 

o e to ny ſome letters, buy N | 


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* A. common 3 with Frederic when: hs rl 

was angry, and which has fince become proverbial, 
among Pruffian and other German off ers. See 
. Critical Review, April, I 788 3 1 


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wut having ſeen the king. On my return, 
I preſented myſelf to him on the parade; 
dd as our fquatron was garriſoned at Ber- 
= lin, 1 aſked; Does it pleaſe your Majefty 
* Whence come oT FE 8 
From Berlin“ And where were you 
e before you went to Berlin? 4 Under 
11 ic: T hen under arreſt * muſt 
3 +7 1 my e till chree 
1 days before our departure for Sileſia, to- 


ward which we marched,” with the trmoſt 
1 . tpecd, -1 in the beginning of May, to com- 


. mence our ſecond. campaign. | 
> Here Lmuſt recount an event which _ 


8 pened that winter, which became the ſource 


e all my misfortunes, and to which I muſt 


treat my readers will pay the utmoſt at- 
= tention; ſince this error, if 1 innocence can 
be error, was the cauſe that the moſt faith- 
or ful and the beft of ſubje&s became bewil- 
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- fame. that this true narrative, ſuppaxted N 
teſtimonies the moſt authentic, Will W 
vindicate my preſent. Ne and BY, 47 
ture memory. 
Francis Baron of = hl was a 1 re 
my. father's. brother, conſequently: my cou: 4 
in- german. I ſhall ſpeak, hereafter, — 
the ſingular events of his life. Being CE 


ſeryice, and grievouſly wounded in 
ria, im che year 1743» he wrote to gay mos "i 
ther, inſorming her he intended we, Bo. ; 
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eldeſt ſon, for his anne legatee 
letter. t to Bs returned no 


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with which the king treated me, that 14 
would not have exchanged my good nee 

| for all the treaſures of the Great Mogul. f 
On the z2th. of February 1744. being a 
Berlin, I was in company with captali 1 
chinſky, commander of the body-gu ard, 
captain of which ranks as colonel. in- the a. 
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comrade, and is at this preſent commander 
ee of the cavalry of Heſſe Caſſel. The 
Auſtrian Trenck became the ſubject 'of 
den, and Jaſchinſky aſked if I was 
+ his kinſman: I anſwered yes, and imme- 
| diately | mentioned his having made me 
his univerſal heir. And what anſwer 
* have you NN 97 fid . OY nt 
= None'atalk” | 
= - 1 e whole eng then wheres; that, 
2 35 a .cafe like the preſent,. 1 was much to 
eme not to anſwer; chat the leaſt T could 
do would be to thank him for his good 
4 wines, and entreat a continuance of them. 
3 Jaſchinſky further added, e Deſire him to 
. ſend you ſome of his fine Hungarian 
= - horſes for your own uſe, and give me 
| Y * 8 1 letter; F will convey it to him, by 
XI | means of Mr. 'Boflart, - legation counſet 
lor of the Saxon embaſſy; but on con- 
dition that you will give me one of the 
2 = horſes.” This correſpondence is a fa- 


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* make oer: eo, for the; <onſe> "of 
& quences.” 68 oh 35 
I immediately took my commander 8 il 
vice, and began to write; and had thoſa 3 
who ſuſpected me thought proper to make | 
the leaſt inquiry into theſe circumſtances 1 
the four witneſſes, who read what I wrote; * 5 
could have atteſted my innocence, and 
rendered it indubitable. I gave my lettes i 
Wer to Jae ; who ſealed and feng it | 1 
7- _—_ omit none pow the ens con- 
cerning this letter, it being the ſole cauſe J 
of all my ſufferings. I ſhall therefore hes 
relate an event, which was tlie firſt oe 4 
ſion of the unjuſt EI erer 
againſt me. ct 3 
One of my gt — with two bed: orfes, 3 | 
was, among meny others, taken by thei 
pandours of Trenck. When I returned: tas 
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midiarcly made-me a 5 ai of a fine Eng- 
| _ courſer. 

Some days after, I was viii aſto- 
niſhed to ſee my groom return, with my 
woc horſes, and a pandour trumpeter, who 
brought me a letter, containing m_ the 
N * Words. Av 
The Auſtrian Treack is not at war 
wich the Pruſſian Trenck, but on the 
r contraty is happy to have recovered the 
S * horſes from his huſſars, and tõ return 
«ther to whom they firſt belonged, &c. 
I went che fame day to pay my reſpects 
t the king, who, receiving me with great 
dne, fad, Since your couſin has re- 
be. turned your own horſes, you: have no 
more need of mine.“ 

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1 The return of the horſes ſeems nfl- 
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dents, they being neceſſary. for my Own f. 
5 tification, and, were it poſſible, for that of 
the king. My innocence is indeed at pre- 
ſent univerſally acknowledged by the court, 
the army, and the whole nation; who all 
mention the injuſtice I ſuffered with pity⸗ and 
the fortitude with which it was endured wh) 1 
urpriſe. Fey at E 
WMWMWe marched for Ges, to enter on our 
ſecond campaign; which, to the Pruſſians, 
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The. king! 8 Benden were fixed ne 
the convent of Kamenz, where we reſted 3 
fourteen days, and the army reinained in bi 
eantonments. Prince Charles, inſtead: of 
| following. us into nnn had che impru⸗ 
dende to occupy the plain of eee 
we already concluded his army 3 Was: = hen 
| Whoever is well acquainted- 
and the Pruſſian manceuvres, 0 8 1 : 
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witcheraft, whether a well or W-diſ 6 ples 12 a 
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. in twenty-four hours was in order of 
battle; and on the 14th of J une, eighteen 
” thouſand bodies lay. ſtretched on the plain of 
13 The allied armies of Auſtria and 
Saxony were totally defeated. Tm 
The | body-guard was on the ds 2 
| previous to the attack, the king ſaid to our 
WW Quadron, <« Prove to-day, my children, 
= © that you are my body- _ ons 5455 
M; t no Saxon quarter. in eee 23 eee 
We made three attacks on the el; 
= and two on the infantry. Nothing could 
= withſtand a ſquadron like this, which, for 
1 men, -horſes; courage, and experience, was 
þ ae the firſt in the world. Our corps 
ee took ſeven ſtandards and five pair of 
| coluns, and in leſs ad an hour me n N 
| vas over. 
> 8 a Apind ſhor in my ak kad; 
| my horſe was deſperately wounded, and 1 
was obliged to change on him the third 
Charge. The day after the battle, all the 
ccers were rewardgd with the Order of 
= Merit, F * own part, I remained four 


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many of whom had not their wounds dreſed 
till the third day. 3 
I was: near 1 months before I recs... 
RD? the uſe of my hand: I nevertheleſs 
rejoined my corps, continued to page! 
my duty, and as uſual accompanied the-.. 
king when he went to reconnoitre. © Dor | 


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me, and his kindneſs toward. me continually 1 


increaſed, which raiſed my PREG even to 4 
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I al performed as rene of adjutanity. 4 


hurl this campaign, a circumſtantial ac 
count of which no perſon is better enabled 23 
to write' than myſelf; I having been preſent = 


at all that paſſed. I was the ſcholar of the E 
_ greateſt maſter the art of war ever knews 


and who believed me worthy to receive! his , | # 3} 


inſtructions; but the volumes 1 am vrting 
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N by the aid of which I rejoined my corps, 
which always 2 marched as the vanguard; 
Mounting my own horſe, I tremblingly 
4 voce to the head of my diviſion, Which it 
in Was my duty to. recede. The king, how- 
Po ever, had remarked my abſence, or rather 
1 bad been reminded of it by my ſuperior of- 
I KHcer, who, for. ſome time is 268, þ mn. become 
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in my countenance, ſaid, with, a ſmile, 
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12 ran * Yes, your majeſty I hape 
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to have been broken. I muſt remind the. 1 
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© ſometimes,” when I had the honour to dine 
Wich him, he would ridicule people who 
were too often at the chaſe, or who were ſo 
cCholeric that they took occaſion to e 
dor the lealt: wile; :--: 

The campaign : paſſed in een man- . 
ceuvres, marches, and countermarches. 
Our corps was the moſt fatigued, as being 
, Encarped round the king's tent, the ſta- 
tion of which, was central, and as likewiſe- 
& haviog the care of the vanguard: we were 
"7 ebore obliged to begin our march two 
bdooner than the remainder of the ar- 
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went do reconnoitre; traced the mes of en- 
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bk September. The king Had ſent ſo many 
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of more than twenty-five” thouſand men. 
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* his enemy by numbers, and not according 

5 . the excellence of diſcipline, and other 
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containing five regiments of cavalty, We 
fell with ſuch fury upon the enemy (who at 
this time were wholly employed in forming 
their men at the mouth of the defile, and 
that ſlowly, little expecting ſo ſudden and 
Violent a charge), that we drove them back 
-1nto the defile, where they preſſed upon ach 
| 1 in crowds: the king himſelf ſtood 
ready to unmnaſk his eight field · pieces, we 6 
eee and bloody ſlaughter enſued in 
this nartow place, from which the enemy 
had not the power to retreat. This ſingle 
incident gained the battle, and deceived _ 
| the hopes of prince Charles. 2 
LINKIN, Trenck, and the beh. OP 


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| pike the « camp. The ferocious — | 
met no oppoſition, while this their error 
mae gur victory more ſecure. It deſerves 
E - tp be noticed that, when advice was 
3 brought to the king that the enemy had 
5 upor md: were plundering the camp, 
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hea was lolt ; the head · quarters, uiter- 4 
ly. undefended, were totally ſtripped; and | 
Trenck had, for his part of the bom the 
N s tent, and his ſervice of plat 6a 

I have mentioned this eircumſtance here, . 
becauſe that, in the year 1746, my couſin | 
Trenck, having fallen into the power bf se 
enemies, who had inſticuted a legal proceſs 2 
againſt him, was accuſed, by ſome! villain- 
_ ous wretches, of having ſurpriſed the king in 1 
bed at the battle of Sorau, and vf having 1 
afterwards. releaſed: him for a bribe: 01 8 

What was ſtill worſe, they-hired 4 m- 
mon proſtitute, a native of Brunn, whp 5 9 
pretended ſhe was the daughter of marſhal 3 - 
Schwerin, to give in evidence that ſhe 121 8 IJ 
{elf was in bed with the King when Trengk 
entered his tent; whom he immediately. 
e priſoner, and as immediately xe dae 

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= watehful king from midnight till four in 
tthe morning, which time he employed in. 
iS riding through the camp, and making the 
neceſſary preparations to receive the enemy: 
and the action began at five. Trenck could 
© "me take che king in bed, for the battle 
vas almoſt gained when he and his pan- 
oF * entered a TIN and Ae aher 
1 head. quarters. TY 

As for the tale 5 Miss 8 it is 
only fit to be told by ſchool-boys, or ex- 

| * amined by the inquiſition, and was very | 
unworthy of making part of a legal proſecu- 5 
Bon againſt an innocent man at Vienna. 
Dhis incident, however, is ſo remarkable, 
chat I ſhall give, in this work, a farther ac- 
* ecunt of my kinſman, and what was called 
i : i his criminal proceſs; at reading which the 
world will be aſtoniſhed. My own hiſtory 
L bs ſo connected wich his, that this is neceſ- | 
1 Jandl the more fo, becauſe there are 
* many. ignorant. or wicked people at Nee”; * 
| * ho believe, ar affirm, Trenck had nn 
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Newer yet was there 85 traitor of the name 2 
of, Trenck; and I hape to prove, in the 
cleareſt manner, the Auſtrian, Trenck, As 

faithfully ſerved. the empreſs queen as as,the 

Pruſſian Trenck did Frederic, hit, dons 2 
Maria Thereſa, ſpeaking to me of him ſorne J 
time after en and che ſnares that f 
had been laid for him, ſaid, Vour kin. 2 
* man has made a better end than wil be 
© the fate of his accuſers and jud ges. 
E Of this more hereafter; 1; approac h that JF 
epocha when my own, misfortunes, began, 


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tended me from my youth onwazd; pill hn 
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A ſew days aſter the battle of Sara, the 
| uſual camp poſtman bronght me, a, 2 
from my couſin Trenek, the colonel of A 
dours, antedated at Eſſek ann 7 
We the following i is a copy. | Kent > in - ” Oo 
Tour letter, of the twelfth « F 1 „ 1 

« wm Berlin, informs me you, deſre 4 
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1. Trenck was a good ſoldier ; and that 1 
might give you ſome proofs of my attach- 
«ment, I then returned the horſes which 
© my men had taken. If, however, you wiſh 
to have Hungarian horſes, you muſt take 
| mine, in like manner, from me in the 
© <field" of battle; or, ſhould you fo think 
, fit, come and join one who will receive © 
= you with open arms, like his friend and 
 _ **Ifop, and who will procure you every. ad 
| 1 you can deff... 
At firſt 1 was tertified at reading this let- 
* ter, yet could net help ſmiling. Cornet 
Wagenitz, now general in chief of the Heſſe 
| "Caſſel forces, and lieutenant Grotthauſen, 
both now alive, and then preſent, were my 
» 1 mrades. I gave them the letter to 
dead, and they laughed at its echtents. It 
bas determined to ſhow it to our ſuperior 
n öfficer „Jaſehitiſky, on a promiſe of Nereſy: pi 
dul in was atcordingly ſhown him within an 
oer after it Was febeiw e.. 
ue reader wil be fo kind as e revollet | 
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couſin; that be r receiyed the letter 0p 
and undertook to ſend it according to its 


addreſßs; alſo that, in this letter, I had, in 


. jeſt, aſked him to ſend me ome, e. 


horſes; and, ſhould they come, had 7 
miſed one to > Jaſchinſky. . He rea the let- 
ter with an air of ſurpriſe; ve lavghed, ang, © 
it being whiſpered, through the army that, 


in conſequence. of our late victory, ee 


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corps would be ſent into Hungary, 97 


ſchinſky ſaid, ** We ſhall now go and take 
8 Hungarian horſes for ourſelyes.” > Here 

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net 1 for me by this falſe and wicked. 
| man. The return of my horſes, during the 
"preceding campaign, had been the ſubjec̃t 
ok much converſation. It is poſſible he had 
the king's orders to watch me; but more 
Probably he only prevailed on me to write 
that he might entrap me by a fictitious an- 
wer. Certain it is, my couſin Trenck, at 
Webs, affirmed to his death he never re- 
| ceived, any letter from me, ' conſequently 
never could ſend any anſwer. I muſt there- 
fore conclude this letter was forged.” 
\ Jaſchinfky was at this time one olf the 
- King's favourites ; his ſpy over the army; 
tale-bearer; an inventor of lies and wick 
3 | "ealunffies. Some years after the event of 
Which I am now ſpeaking, the ur 6 
le to break and baniſh him Mani. 
4 He was then alſo the paramour of the 
**beautcous Madame Broſfart, wife of the 
1 axon reſident at Berlin; and there cag be 
- Hite doubt. but that this falſe letter was, 
* ber TRA, er to ſome Saxon or | 1 * 


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Auſtrian poſt· office, and thencey- actonding 4 

to its addreſs, ſent: to me. He bad daily 8 

opportunities of infuſing ſuſpicions into the 1 

: king's mind concerning me; and, unknown 

to NEE bis purſuing his diabolical plan. SY 

J mult likewiſe: add, he was four hundred | 

cid indebted to me. At that time i had 

always a plettiful Kapply of money! This 

booty became his own when 1; ynexamined, - 

| ' was/atreſted; and thrown into priſon. In 4 

ke manner he ſeized on the. greateſt ory : | 
_ my camp equipa ge.. 
Further, we had quarrelled during or 

82 firſt campaign, becauſe he :had»beatemione Þ 

of my ſervants; we even were proceeditigg A 

to fight with piſtols, had not colonel Win- 2 
[ecrfeld interfered, - and amicably ended our 

quar tei Phe Lichuanian is, by-nataie, as. 4 A 
Birdie and, revengeful; and, from chat day, 

1 have reaſon to. believe hel ſaughe myfL. 3 

ſtruction. BAND v6 5 216A08 4 
God only knows what! were the means 

be cegk to excite: che king's ſuſp SO 2 

it is incredible that: Fredericy wee 

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ſhould treat me in the manner he did, with- 
| \ out a hearing, without examination, and 
Without a court- martial. This to me has 
ever remained a myſtery, which the king 
done was able ro explain: he afterwards | 
Z was convinced I was innocent; but my ſuf- 
L 1 ferings had been too cruel, and the miſeries 
be had inflicted too nen. me ever to 
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In an affair of chif mhgure, which wilt 
ſoon be known to all Europe, as it long has 
been in Pruſſia, the weikett i is always guilty. 
a Lhaye been made a terrible example, to this 
a "ow n maxim is W n . 


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18 or ſtill more ae, | peniſes. 

d name and injuries wil ever ſtain the 

- annals of Frederic tbe Great; even thoſe 

- who: read this bock will perhaps ſuppoſe 
chat 1, from political motives of hope 8 
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"Ii mult ever remain incomprehenſible, 
that a - monarch ſo  clear-ſighted, himſelf 
the daily. witneſs of my demeanor, one well 
| acquainted with mankind, .and conſcious; +: 2 
wanted neither money, honour, nor hope 
of future preferment; I ſay it is incompre-— 
henſible that he, ſhould really ſuppoſe me 
guilty. I take God to witneſs, and all 
thoſe who knew me in proſperity; and mis- 
fortune, I never» harboured a thought of 
betraying my country. Ho Was it poſ- . = 
ſible to ſuſpect me ? Las neither madman 
nor. idiot. In my eighteenth. year, I was a2 
cornet of the body-guard, adjutant to the 
king, and poſſeſſed his favour and conſi- [ 
.dence in the higheſt degree. His preſents” i 
to me, in one year, amounted. to fifteen 
hundred dollars. I kept ſeven horſes, four 
men in livery: I was valued, diſtinguiſhed, 92 
and beloved by the miſtreſs of my ſoul. V 2 9 $ 
relations held high offices, both civil and 5 2 
military: I was even fanatically devoted n 2 
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Fonſequence of this: unfortunate letter, is 


— "equally wonderful: it came by the public 
+ pou Had there been any criminal corre- 
:ſpondence; my kinſman certainly would 


A > A not have choſen this mode of conveyance ; 


ſince, it is well known, all ſuch letters are 


opened; nor could J act more openly. My 


ecolopel read the letter I wrote; and alſo 
that Which Leecived, ene after it 
| i was. brought. eee 2:1) ee 


The day her the tee of this letter 1 


Wa, as 1 have before ſaid; unheard, unac- 
© cuſed; unjudged, conducted, like a criminal, 
from the army, by fifty huſſars, and impri- 


| ſoned in the fortreſs of Glatz. I was al- 


I 2 Jowed to take three horſes, and my ſervants, "2 
bot my whole: equipage was left behind, 


"which I never ſaw more, and which be- 


5 == the booty of Jaſchinſky. - My com- 


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miſſion | was given to cornet Schatzel, and 
82 caſhicred, without knowing why. There 


were no legal inquiries made; all was done 

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ward. Unhappy land! where the Se 
tent Socu 1s on WII I ſuperſedes all legal 
ſentence, and robs the e of en 

9 "life, and honour." 550 
| ' T once more repeat I was brought! to the 
citadel of Glatz: I was not however thrown 
into a dungeon, but impriſoned i in a cham- 0 
ber of the officer of the guard; was allowed. 
my ſervants to walt on me, and permitted 
| to walk on the eee 00; ap ONT 
I did not want money, and there was 
only a detachment, from che garriſon ven. 5 I 
ment, in the Citadel of Glatz, the officers of 
Which were all poor. I ſoon had Beth 
ttriends and freedom, and the "0 priſoner 
WOy day kept open tabbwdmmmuue. 1 
He only who had known me in chew the 
ardour of my youth, who had witneſſed hom 
high L aſpired, and the fortune that attend! 
me at Berlin, can imagine what my PPE 
ings were, at finding myſelf thus any 
urg em my de oy BET We Ih 1. By or 1 


| | „This haughty tone, in a, youth, was diſ- 


by ( 64 » 
oo mr favour, ſhould I be found 2 


pleaßing, and I received no anſwer, which 
threw me into deſpair, and induced me to 
uſe every poſſible means to obtain my liberty. 


VM frſt care was to eſtabliſh; by the in- 


ttervention of an officer, a certain corre- 


Smesdenge wich the object, of my heart. 


dhe anſwered, ſhe was far from ſuppoſ- 
ing I had ever entertained the leaſt thougbt 
traitorous to my country; that ſhe; knew, 
too well, I was perfectly incapable of diſſimu- 
lation, She blamed the precipitate anger, 
and unjuſt ſuſpicions, of che King; pro- 
miſed me 2 aid, and st me a hoy- 
2 and dueats. >: 1 
Had J, at this gritical.s moment, ', poſeſſed 


LE a ptudentand-intelligent friend, who could 
bare calmed my impatience,-nothing per- 
baps might have been more caſy than to 


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have obtained pardon of the king, by proy- 
ing my innocence; or, it may be, than to 
have induced him to puniſh. my, enemies. 


But tec Officers who, were then at Glats Ty | 


| 7 led the: Rare: of diſcontent. | They ee 
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the money 1 fo: freely diſtributed came al! 
from Hungary, furniſhed by the pandourrt 
cheſt; and adviſed me not to ſuffer iny free · 
dom to depend upon the will of the king, 
but to enjoy it in his deſpite. 

It was not more eaſy to give this MERL 
= to perſuade a man to take it, ho, till 


en, had never encountered any thing bur 


good fortune, and who conſequently ſup- q 
ported this reverſe with impatience. I was 
not yet however determined, becauſe C! 
could not yet reſolve to ne Ky _ 4 
25 and eſpecially Berlin. 

Five months: ſoon paſſed av ow in N 2 
e was concluded; the king was returii- | 
ed to his capital: my commiſſion in the . 
guards was | beſtowed on another,” when © 
-heutenant Piaſchky, of the regiment: of - 
Fouquet, and | enſign Reitz, who often 
mounted guard over me, propoſed that ws. 
and 1 ſhould eſcape together. a 1 yielded, 
our plan was um and! Pong Pre ON 
key taken. 14 ien 18 
At that time there ener e 
"Mr 1 c Glatz, whoſe name was os , oy 


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EE birth= Siwifo; and captain of cavalry 1 in the 

MNatzmerſchen huſſars: he had been con- 
demned by a court martial to ten years im- 

.prifontnent,, with allowance of only four 
I I rix-dollars per month. + ZE VCET TOR ING 
| Having done this man PEROT A les, 18 was 


elolved to reſcue him from bondage 
the fime time that I obtained freedom 
| ”* 2nyſclf;'r I: communicated my deſign, and 
3 k made the propoſal, which: was accepted by 
him, and meaſures. were taken; yet were 
B we betrayed by this vile man, who) thus 
E- purchaſed pardon and liberty. 
= Piaſchky, who had been 1 that 
KReitz was arreſted, ſaved himſelf by deſert- 
E I . denied the ſact in preſence of Man- 
get, wich whom I was confronted, and 
bribed the auditor with a hundred ducats. 
By this means Reitz only ſuffered a year's 
impriſonment, and the loſs of his com- 
miſſion. I was afterwards. cloſely: confined 
| ina chamber, for having endeavoured: to 
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1 I will interrupt my narrative, for ia.” 
moment, to relate an adventure which hap- 
pened between me and this captain Man- 
get, three years after he had thus betrayed 
me, that is to ſay in 1749, at Warſaw. 7 
I there met him by. chance, and ĩt ĩs not 
ficul to imagine what was the ſalutation 
| he received. I caned him; he took this 
ill, and challenged me to fight with piſtols. 
Captain Heuckin, of the Poliſh guards, 
was my ſecond. We both fired together: 
1 ſhot» him through the neck at the. f 1 
thot,. and he fell dead on the field. Hb, 
He, alone, of all my enemies, ever Jt = 
by my own hand; and he well merited *. 
end, for his cowardly treachery toward the 
two brave fellows of whom I have ſpoken ;. 'N 
and ſtill more ſo with reſpect to myſelf, 
who had been his. benefactor, 1 own, 1: 
have never reproached . myſelf for this 


world. r 
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likewiſe was his anger, * this. my late at- 
t to eſcape. 508: eee 
Left to myſelf, I confidered my ſituation 
in the worſt point of view, and determined 
either on flight or death. The length and 
ecloſeneſs of my confinement became inſup- 
5 Portable to my impatient temper. . 


| q > SEP had always had the garriſon on my ſide, 
= : nor Was it poſſible to prevent my making 


friends among them. They knew I had 


money, and, in a poor garriſon regiment, 


-the officers of which are all diflatisfied, hav- 
ing moſt of them been draughted from other 


- corps and ſent thither as a puniſhment, there 
= 8 that might not be undertaken. | 


My ſcheme was as follows: © 

My window looked toward the city; nk 
Was ninety feet from the ground in the tow- 
5 er of the citadel, out of which I could not 
| er without having found a place of . 
| This an dr undertook to procure me, + 
n / prevailed on an honeſt ſoap-boiler to. 


| Rf grant me a hiding-place. I then notched. ;-.. 


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N iron . ; but this mode was too tedious,- 

3 being neceſſary to file away eight bars 3 
8 Br window, before I could paſs . ii 
1355 h: another officer therefore procured, 
me a fle, which I was obliged to uſe, wit ang 
caution, leſt I ſhould be e bbs che! ñ⁵ 
cCentinels. 701 5:0 4417 po” p 
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ther portmanteau into thongs, ſewed the "ag 73 43 
end to end, added the ſheets eee 
and deſcended l n this een 1 
height. Lt FRI « 7” | 72 ot is 4s » : I 
It raingd, the nigbe was dark; nd all 15 I 
ſeemed forfinate; but I had to wade: , 1 4 4 
moats full of mud, before I could enter the 9 
city, a circumſtance I had never once conſis” 4 
dered. I ſunk up to the knees, and; W . 
long ſtruggling, and incredible efforts to ex 4 
tricate myſelf; I was obliged to call the cen- 
„and deſire him to go, and tell the g- 
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enemy to the very name of Trenck ; ner did 
he loſe any opportunity of giving me proofs 
of his enmity, and eſpecially on the preſent 
-occaſion, when hie leſt me ſtanding in the 
"ire till noon, the ſport of the ſoldiet 4 
was then drawn out, half dead, only again 
to be priſoned, and ſhut up the whole day, 
without water to waſh me. No one can 
imagine how I booked, dene dirty, 
my long hair having fallen int&" the mud, 


with which, by my ſtruggling, it was load 
ed. I remained in this condition till the 
next day, when two fellow inen were 
ſent to aſſiſt and clean nee.. 
My impriſonment now became more in- 


dolerable. 1 had ſtill eighty louis-dfors 
my purſe, which had not been taken . 
me at my removal into another e e 
and "theſe afterward did me good ſervice. g 
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| Qceples, my days miſerable: my ſoul! was 
tortured by the deſire of fame: a conſcioufs! - I | 
18 01 innocence was a” continued: ſtimulus | 
citing-me to end my misfortunes 7 Youths © 
inexperienced in woe: and diſaſtrous feat, 
beholds every evil magnified, and deſponds 
on every new diſappointment, more eſpe- 
- Cially after having failed im attempting free- 
dom. Eddcation had taught me to deſpiſe 
death, and theſe opinions had been con- 
firmed by my friend La Metrie, author a 
che famous work, L Homme ee or Nn 


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tz, where books were allowed me; a "io 

was ee leſs tedious: but when be 
love of liberty awoke, when fame add: 
fection called me to Berlin, and mf 
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but pronounce me a traitor; then will” 3 | 
if . hourly impelled to ruſh on the naked o- 
nets of my guards, by whom, to he the 
1 0s of freedom was barred.” 11 "74 RS 
Big with ſuch-like n Sa days 
had not elapſed, ſince my laſt fruitleſs at- 
tempt to eſcape, when an event happened 
which would appear incredible, were 1 
the principal actor in the ſcene,” not alive 
to atteſt its truth, and might not all Glatz, 
and the Pruſſian garriſon, be produced as 
eye and ear witneſſes. This incident Will 
e that adventurous, and a raſh) | 
ones render the moſt improbable un- 
dertakings poſſible, and chat deſperate at- 
tempts may often make a general more 
fortunate, and famous, than the wiſeſt and 
| beſt-concerted plans. i . 21 2p 
Major Doo came to viſit me, 
bad ** an officer of the guard, and an 
: adjutant. 
7 * "Ty 65 wh * governor of Glatz during 
| the ſeven years' war, and who, having been ſurpriſ 1 
dy . Laudohn, was made priſongge wia * 5 5 


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tain my liberty ; ; adding, 
increaſe the anger of the king. 788 


ce My on the king.” 


= EY ad baniſhed him with coor K f 55 $1 -"2] 


by birth an Italian, a ſeHfiſh, wicked mam; and, while: | 
major under the government of Fouquet, at . 1 
brought many people to miſery. He was tlie creatiug 2 1 
of Fouquet, without birth or merit, crafty, walignanty | 


daughter, afterwards married her; when 
Zoo, and at length his ill, fortune. He ate 
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Th : ' Y After examining cs corner. of _ 
my chamber, he addreſſed me, raxing, me 
with a ſecond crjme in endeavouring to ob 5 


this muſt & certainly. © 


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My blood boiled at the, Ds crime: 1 5 4 
talked of patience; I aſked him how: long 


the King had condemned me to impriſon- A 
ment? ? He anſwered, A traitor to his coun- 


« try, who has correſponded with the ene- 1 
e my, cannot be condemned for a certain 


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from his fide, on which my res had ET 8 


he came to Vienna, where T ga ve him, alths: He was . 


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time been fixed, ſprang out of the door, 


tumbled the centinel from the top to the 


bottom of the ſtairs, paſſed the men Wo | 


7 x and good fortune. None of their pieces By 
were loaded: no one durſt leap after me, 


happened to be drawn up before the priſon 


door to relieve guard, attacked them ſword 
in hand, threw them ſuddenly into ſurpriſe 
by the manner in which I laid about me, 
' wounded four of chem, made through the 
reſt, ſprang over the breaſt- work of the 
ramparts, and, with my ſword drawn in my 


hand, immediately leaped this aſtoviſhing ; 
height, without receiving the leaſt injury. 
7 leaped the ſecond wall with equal fafety 


and, in order to purſue, they muſt go round 


Ae throvgh the town and the gate of the cita- 
el, fo char I had the ſtare ful half an 
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I emed to oppoſe my flight, but 1 


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luckily caught by the foor, and received a "© 
bayonet wound in my upper lip: thus 8 
tangled, they beat me with the butc:end * 
their muſkets, and dragged me back to Pri- 
ſon, while I ſtruggled and defended wyfel | 

| like a man grown deſperate. 5 g : 
Certain it is, had I more carefully jumped © oi 

the paliſadoes, and diſpatched the centinet - | 

| who oppoſed me, I might have eſcaped, - A 
and gained the mountains. Thus might [ =_ 
have fled to Bohemia, after having, at noon_ + # 
day, broken from the fortreſs of Glatz, x 2 
ſprung. paſt all its centinels, | over al its NY 3 
walls, and paſſed with i impunity, in deſpite 2 5 3 
of the guard, who were under arms, ready - 
to oppoſe me. I. ſhould not, having a ford, : 
have feared: any ſingle opponent, and was — 


able to contend with the iwifcelt rurmefte „ 
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tended me, forſook- me at ie mais: "IE 4A | 
: where 7. 055 yas at an end. The fare xy 
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centinels n I was beaten and 
; wounded by the butt-ends of their muſkets, 
my right foot was ſprained, I ſpit blood; 


and my wounds were not t cured in leſs War 


a 2 month. 
was now firſt ed: the king had 


5 only condemned me to a year's impriſon- 


ment, in order to learn whether his ſuſpi- 
cions were well founded, My mother had 


petitioned for me, and was anſwered, Vour 


ſon muſt remain a year impriſoned, as a 


| ec © puniſhment for his raſh corre ſpondence. 


Of this I was ignorant, and it was re- 
ported in Glatz, that my impriſonment was 


2 Ig for life. I had only three weeks longer to 
repine for the loſs of liberty, When 1 made 
this raſh attempt. What muſt the. King 


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new projects of flight. I firſt gained et 
Intimacy of my guards. I had money, and. 
this, with the compaſſion I had inſpired, Fi; ; 
might effect any thing among diſcontented - | 
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two men who were ready to | 
"the firſt'f onal, whatever I ſhouf 
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..& fortunately, an. Auſtrian deſerter, to 
who Nicholai had imparted. our defign, 
xz vent and diſcovered our conſpiracy. The 
gaovernor inflantly ſent his adjutant to the 
9 eitadel, with orders that te officer on guard : 
= mould arreſt Nicholai, and, with his en 
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to me, bid me As PRONE but i in vain; and | 
perceiving nothing more could be done for 1 
85 me, this brave man, headed nineteen others, N 
marched to the gate of the citadel, where 
there was a ſub- officer and ten foldiers, 4 
obliged theſe to accompany him, and thus 
arrived ſafely at Braunau, in Boheinia; for by 
before the news was ſpread through the 
city, and men were collected for the pur- A 
ſuit, rhey. were n half way on ; WE - 
Journey. | 5 : 4 
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man at Ofenbourg, where. he. was a writer; 4 
| he entered immediately into my ſervice, 4 
and became my friend; but died ſome 
months, aſter of a burning feven at my I 
quarters in Hungary, at which I was deeply. 
eker bis W vill ever be dear 
to me. N I 
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ill. fortune: a proſecution - was entered 
againſt me as a conſpirator, who wanted to 1 
corrupt the officers and ſoldiers af che f 
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tions I ade no hg except by ſteadfaſtly | 
declaring I was an innocent priſoner, an 
officer unjuſtly broken; ; unjuſtly, becauſe T 
Had never been brought to trial ; that con- 
ſequentiy I was releaſed from all my en- 
gagements; nor could it be thought extra- 
-, ordinary that I fhould avail myſelf of that 
law of natare which gives every man a 
right to defend his honour defamed, and” 
ſeek by every poſſible means to regain his 
Aden ; that ſuch had been my ſole purpoſe. 
in every enterpriſe 2 had formed, and ſuch 
eint ſtill continue to be; for I was deter- : 
mined to perſiſt, till T ſhould either be 
crowned with ſucceſs, or 1 7 0 life in | 
de — e 
Things thus remained; every Precaution 

was rake, except that I was not put. in 
icons; it being a law in Pruſſia that no 
eutleman, or officer, can be loaded with 
E unleſs he has firſt for ſome crime 
been delivered over to the EXECUTIONET 3 . and n 
ay this had not been my ae. 
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_ prevent, at laſt wrote- # Fd. 
« My tears flow with yours; the evil is 
408 without remedy—I dare no more —eſcape 
Mm if you can. My fidelity will eyer be the 
cc © ſame, when it ſhall be poſſible for me to 
« ſerve. you.—Adieu !— unhappy f friend! 
e you merit a better fate.” 


_ This letter was a thunderbolt —my- com- „7 
| fort however ſtill was, that the officets were 


not ſuſpected, and that it was their duty to 
viſit my chamber ſeveral times a- day and 


examine what paſſed : from which; eireum- 1 1 3 


ſtance I felt my hopes ſomewhat revive. 
Hence an adventure happened, which is: 
_ almoſt unexarpled in tales of „ 

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A lieutenant, wWhoſe name was- BN a "4 


Dane by nation; mounted guard eve 


fourth day, and was the terror of the Wwhole 4 


e for, being a perfect maſter of 'F 


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4 5 3 to pci. him, — mae, 


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<1 nk, and generally left his marks! being! 


him. He had ſerved 1 in two regiments, nei- 
ther of which would aſſociate with him for 
this reaſon, and he had been ſent to the gar- . 


* ricbn regiment at Slatz as a puniſhment. | 


Bach, one day, fitting beſide me, related 
" ew the evening before he had wounded 3 
lieutenant, of the name of Schell, in the 


| | arm. | Treplied, laughing, Had I my liberty, 5 | 


= I believe you would find ſome trouble in 


«wounding me, for I have ſome {kill in the 
*« ſword.” The blood inſtantly flew in his 
_ face; ;.-we ſplit off a kind of a pair of foils 


1 5 from an old door, which had ſerved me as 


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n lunge I hit him on. 
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bett che priſon. What was my aſtoniſn- 
ment when, a moment after, I ſaw him re- 
turn with two. foldier's ſwords, which he 
had eoncealed under his coat! * Now then, f 


v hoaſter, prove,” ſaid he, giving, me one 25 


of them, what chou att able to da ! . 3 


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= erifice his life in my 'beh l 


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; the er, bot ineffectually. He inks 1 
me. with the utmoſt wr 0 and 1 wounded | 
him in the arm. 
Throwing his word Mod: he far ren 
my neck, kiſſed me, and wept. At length. 
after ſome convulſive emotions of plesfufe, 
he ſaid, © Friend, thou art my maſter; and 
« thou muſt; thou ſhalt, by my aid; obtain © 
_ 4:2thy- liberty. as certainly as. my name is 
* Bach.“ We bound up his arm as well 

IK as we could. He left me, and ſceretly went 
to a ſurgeon, to have | it Pro et y Arefied, aid. 


yas 


: at night returned, | Rn ads 4 
He now remarked that it Way bey, 
:mpoſſible 1 ſhould eſcape, unleſs rhe officer | 
on guard ſhould deſert Wu me; iat . > 
iſhed nothing more arde tip than” oy * 5] 
3 could not reſolve fo far to; forget his non 
and er as to deſert himſelf, ne * 


guard: he notwit! kaſtanding gave”! me * 
word eser he would find tre ſuch" 4 


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He returned the ſame evening, bringing” 
With him lieutenant Schell, 58 as he enter- 

ed ſaid, © Here 1 is your man.“ Schell em- 

© braced: me, gave his word of honour, and 

1 thus was the affair ſettled, and, as it proved, 
& my liberty aſcertained. ; 5 
I We ſoon began to deliberate on the means 
neceſſary to obtain our purpoſe. Schell was 
Jyſt come from garriſon at Habelchwert to 
the citadel, of Glatz, and in two days Was 

to mount guard over me, till when our at- 

tempt was ſuſpended. I have before. ſaid, 1. 


WW - received no more ſupplies from ray beloved. 
= miſtreſs, and - 4 purſe at that time only con- 
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WO tained, ſome piſtoles. Ie was therefore 
| | 8 =] reſolved that Bach ſhould go to Schweidnitz, 6 
1 and obtain . of a ſure friend of mine 
zin that city. : 5 13 3 
= Here 1 ae Or he: reader has at 
. this period, the officers and L all underſtod 
= each other, Captain Roder alone EXE Ned, 
who was 22 rigid, and gave. wan al. 


— oecaſions*. 

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| Major Quaadt was my kinſman, by my 
ber fide ; a good friendly man, and 
ardently deſirous I ſhould eſcape, ſeeing my 
calamities were ſo much increaſed. The "I 
four lieutenants, who- ſucceflively mounted 4 4 
guard over me, were Bach, Schroeder, = 
Lunitz, and Schell. The firſt was che 
grand projector, and made all the prepara- 8 
tions; Schell was to deſert with me; and 
Schroeder and Lunitz, | three our NONE 8 
were to follow. : | 7 
No one ought to be — charoficers. 1 
of garriſon regiments ſhould be i ready to _ 
, "deſert. They are, in general, either men 3 ? 
of violent paſſions, quarrelſome, overwhem 
ed with debts, or unfit for ſervice. They: - = 
are uſually. ſent to the garriſon as a pu- 
: njſhrment, and are called the refuſe of the 
I army. Diſſatisfied with their ſituation, 7905 4 
. _ their pay much reduced, and deſpiſed: by 
the trgbps, ſuch men, expecting advantage: 
| may W eught to engage in 8 e l a 4 
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means, to better their fortune, I always 
having - had money. enough; and with 
money nothing is more eaſy than to find 
friends, in places where each individual 18 8 
deſirous of eſcaping from ſlavery. | 
The talents of Schell were of a ſuperior 
* be ſpoke and wrote ſix languages, 
n= Was well acquainted with all the fine 
He had ſerved in the regiment of 
n had been injured by his colonel, 
Who was a Pomeranian; and Fouquet, Who 
was no friend to well-informed officers,” had 
ſent him to a garriſon regiment. He had 


1 twice demanded his diſmiſſion, but the king 
ſent him then to this ſpecies of impriſon- 
ment; he then determined to avenge him 


1 ſelf by deſerting, and was ready to aid me in 
WO recovering my freedom, that he , by . 
3 [That means fpite Fouquet. : 
= I ſhall ſpeak more hereafter . this ex- 
traordinary man, that I may not in this place 

: interrupt my ſtory We ee 
ding ſhould be prepared againſt the nine 
| 5 5 time 5 mounte 1 3 and that our 


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"= Thus, as he grad guard every . 
the eighth was to be that of our flight. 
The governor mean-time had been in 
Sem how familiar I was become with _ 2 


officers ; at which taking offence, he ſent or- 
ders that my door ſhould no more be open- 7 

ed, but that I ſhould receive my food: 

through a ſmall window that had been made 

for that purpoſe. The care of the priſon 

was committed to the major, and W of 

forbidden to eat with me. 000" Rue of 
| being broken. 1 1 H £ 126. 3 
His precautions were -ineffe@ual ; : de 9 

" officers procured a falſe key, and remained | 
with me half the day and night. 26 An 4 A 
Captain Damnicz was imprifoned. i in an 4 
apartment by the ſide of mine. This man 

had deſerted from the Pruſſian ſervice, wih 

the money belonging to his company, to 1 
Auſtria, where he obtained a eommiſſion in 1 2 
his couſin's regiment, whe having prevail &= 4 
on him to ſerve as n ſpy, during the ww. 
paign of 1744, he was taken in the Pruſ 
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Some Swediſh volunteers, who were then 
in the army, intereſted themſelves. in his; 
| behalf, and his ſentence was changed to per- 


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1 | 
This mictoh; 12 two Fears 3 * the : 
1 of his protectors, not only obtained his 
Tg but a lieutenant-colonel's commiſ- 
. Ton, was: the ſecret ſpy of the major over 


the priſoners; and he remarked that, not- 


wWithſtanding the expreſs prohibition laid on | 
the officers, they till paſſed the greater part 


of their time in my company. 


The 24th of December came, and 8 Schell 
Sound guard. He entered my priſon 


immediately, where he continued 4 long 


time; and we made our arrangements for | 
_ flight: when he next ſhould-mount guard. 
Lieutenant Schroeder that day dined wich 
he governor, and heard orders given take 
- aqhutant. that Schell ſhould be ben en TIE 


the guard, and put under arreſt. 


e Schroeder, Who Was in the e had. . 
— a doubt but that we were betrayed, not 2 b 
1 187 that the l Damnitz had informed... 


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= the governor ihn Schell 1 was then. in ny 
—— Wes: „„ TY on} ng 


Schroeder, full of terror, came running to 
the citadel, and faid to Schell, “ Save thy- 
« ſelf, friend; all is diſcovered, and thou 
« wilt inſtantly be put under arreſt. 

Schell might eafily have provided for bile 
own ſafety, by flying fingly, Schein 
having prepared horſes, on one of which he 
himſelf offered to e him into Bo- 
hemia. | | 

How did this worthy. man, in a moment 
ſo dangerous, act toward his friend? 

Running ſuddenly into my oriſon,! he. 
drew a corporal's ſabre from under his coat, 
and ſaid, © Friend, we are betrayed ; eng 
« me, only do not ſuffer me un fall alive i into 
the hands of my enemies 

J would have ſpoken; "bai interibfhtidlls: 
me, and taking me by the hand, he added, 5 

* Follow me, we have not a moment 1 10”. 
* loſe,” I therefore ſlipt on my coatand: 


8 boots, without having time to take the lte Le 
cM: 5 money I had left; and, as We went out „ 
. 3 the: Weis. Schell * to the N . 3 
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am . he priſoner into the officer's = 
* apartment; ſtand where you are.”  __ | 
3 Into this room we really went, but aſſed —_— 
ou!t at the other door. The deſign of Schell i 
was to go under the arſenal, which was not ö | 
far off, to gain the covered way, leap the 
paliſadoes, and afterward eſcape aſter the 
-* beſt manner we might. We had ſearcely 
gone a hundred. paces before we met the 
8 and major Quaadt. 
Schell ſtarted back, ſprang upon the rams |. 
part; and leaped from the wall, which was 
there not very high. I followed, and alighted 4 
vnburt, except having grazed my ſhoulder. 
3 ZH 6 My" poor friend was not ſo fortunate, having 
3 5 . out his ancle. He immediately drew 
his ſword, preſented it to me, and begged 
me to diſpatch. him, and fly. He was 4 
amal weak man; but, far from complying 
queſt, I took him in my arms, 
threw him over thi paliſadoes, afterwards | 
got him on my back, and began to rung 
without 7 Nur Knowing which ways 1 5 


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an £4.48 . tortunate HERR. 


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| the hoar froſt fell. No one would run the 
riſk that we had done, by making. fo. dan · 
gerous a leap. We heard a terrible noiſe 
behind us. Every body knew us ; but be- 
fore they could go round the citadel, and 
through the town, in order to purſue. * 
we had got a full half league. ? 

The alarm guns were fired before we were 


a hundred paces diſtant ; at which my tiene 1 
was very much terrified, knowing e 1 


ſuch caſes, it was generally impoſſible to 
- eſcape from Glatz, unleſs the bete b 
got the ſtart full two hours before the alarm 
guns were heard; the paſſes being immediate -· 
ly all ſtopped by the peaſants and huffary,- 


| Who are exceedingly-vigilant. No foonet 1 nd | 
a prifoner miſſed than the gunner runs from IJ l 
the guard houſe and fires the cannon on the Eg I 


- three ſides of the fortreſs, which ae kept 
en day and night for that purpoſe. 1 

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as it was wonderful, This 1 attribute ww 7 
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already acquired, which made it thought 1 
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attack me. 4 
It was, beſide, l we. were. . 
penned, with arms for our defence ; and it 
was little ſuſpected that Schell had only. his 
ſword, and I an old corporal's fabre. - Ws . 
Among the ocers commanded to putſue 
n rr intimate friend. 
Captain Zerbſt, of the regiment of Fouquet, 
who had always teſtified the kindneſs of a 
brother toward me, met us on the Bohemian 
Sauen. and called to me,. Make to the 
1 left, brother, and you will ſee ſome lone 
5 4 houſes, which are on the Bohemian con- 
ea fines: the huſſars have rode ſtraight for- 
1 ward. ” He then e =; as if be had 
not ſeen us. 2] Es 
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for the intimacy between the Pruſſian ofn- 1 
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3 : Jetetinioh at Glatz I had been once e ſix and. 


thirty Hours hunting at Neurode, at the ſeat 


may be conjectured how great Was the 
confidence in which the word of che un- 
fortunate Trenck was held at Glatz; ſince 
they did not fear letting him leave his 
dungeon, and hunt on the very confines f 
Bohemia. This too ſhows the governo 
was deceived, in deſpite of his watchfulneſs 


and orders; and that a man of honour, with - 


brothers, and held their words ſo ate, | 


enemies. nie 4 | 


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| money, and a good head and. "—_ will 


never want friends. 1 by 


Theſe.my memoirs will be this ede af 


what the national charafter then was; and 


will prove that, with officers ho lived ke 


the great Fredstie melt en. ee big.” 


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whip of ſlavery, and mechanic ſuboiding= 


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of baron Stillfriede : Lunitz had taken my 
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. qenburg warrior declines; and into this 

error have moſt of the other Tropic 
ſtates fallen, 

Scarcely had I ere: my e chres 
hundred paces before I fat him down, and 
> wk round me; but darkneſs came on ſo 
faſt chat I could fee neither town nor cita- 
del; a REP we eee could not be 
f NMI nder 5 en did not zel me: 
#$ — death. or freedom was my determination. 
Where are we, Schell?” faid Ito my friend; 

* where does Bohemia lie? On which ſide is 
che river Neiſs? The worthy man could 
make no anſwer: his mind was all confu- 
. he defpaired of our eſcape: he 
till, however, intreated I would not let him 
be taken alive; and affirmed my Rabour was 
i all in vain. 
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| facred, I would fave him from an W 
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knew by ſome trees we were not far from 
the city gates. J aſked him, Where is the 
Neiſs? He pointed fideways—* All Glatz * *? 
c has ſeen us fly toward the Bohemian 
e mountains; it is impoſſible we. ſhould = 
<« avoid the huſſars, the paſſes being all 
ce guarded, and we beſet with enemies. 
So ſaying, I took him on my ſhoulders, and 
carried him to the Neiſs: here we diſtinctly "i 
heard the alarm ſounding in the village 3 
and the peaſants, who likewiſe were to form 
the line of deſertion, were every-where in 
motion, and ſpreading the alarm. As it = 
may not be known to all my readers in 1 
what manner they proceed on theſe oc. 5 
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count of it. . 


Officers are daily named, on 55 parade, | 
whoſe duty it is to follow fugitives as ſoon 
as the alarm guns are fired. 22 5 
The peaſants in the villages, likewiſe, are 
daily appointed to run to the guard of cer 2 
| tain poſts. The officers: immediately fly; to 1 1 1 
chheſe poſts to ſee that the peaſants do their i 
duty, ad prevent the 7 er, s en 


ET. „ 
Truss does it ſeidom happen that a ſoldier” 
can effect his eſcape, unleſs he be, at the 
very leaſt, an hour on his road before is 
alarm guns weee fired. | 
I now return to my ſtory. 
I came t the Neiſs, which was a little 
7; "DABY entered it with my friend, and car- 
3 ried him as Jong as I could wade ; and when 
11 couid not feel the bottom, which did not 
continue for more than a ſpace of eighteen 
E - feet, he clung round me, and thus we * 
Ke: Ie to the other ſhore. | | 
[ . My father taught all his ſons to * 6 
. ſor which I have often had to thank. him; 
fince by means of this art, which is eaſily” 
learnt in childhood, I had on various oc 
ions preſerved my life, and was more bold 3 
in danger. Princes who wiſh-to make their * 
objects ſoldiers, ſnould kave them educated 
o as to fear neither fire nor water. How 
be would be the advantage of being able 
didi croſs a river with whole battalions, When 
A th It is neceſſary to attack, or retreat before the * 
| . and ens time will now Hermit.) to 55 3:0 


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in the midſt -of December, and remaining 
afterward eighteen hours in the open air, : 1 
was a ſevere hardſhip. Ahgut ſeven o clock | 
the hoar fog was ſucceeded by froſt and 
moon: light. The carrying of my friend kept 
me warm, it is true; but I began to be tired 2 
| while he ſuffered every thing that froſt, the 1 
pain of a diſlocated foot, which I in vain 9 
endeavoured to reſet, and. the danger * | 
death from a thouſand hands, could inflict. 
We were ſomewhat more tranquil, how- 
ever, having reached the oppoſite ſhore of 
che Neiſs, ſince nobody would purſue us on 
che road to Sileſia. I followed the GN 
of the river for half an hour, and having 
once paſſed the firſt villages that formed 
the line of deſertion, with lieh Schelb 
was perfectly acquainted, we in a lucky 
moment found a fiſherman's boat a ; 
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5 hearts, and we held council concerning how | 
it was beſt to aft. I cut a ſtick to aſſiſt 
Schell in hopping forward, as well as he 
could, when 1 was s Fired of carrying him 4 
M nuec our. route, the diſhi- 
* culties of which were increaſed 8 the 
* * ſnows. 

- Fhus paſſed the night ; during which, up 
to the middle in ſnow, we made but little 
Way. There were no paths to be traced in 
the mountains; and they were in many 
en impaſſable. Day at length appeared: 
we thought ourſelves near the ' frontiers, 
Ahich are twenty Engliſh miles from 
Share, when we ſuddenly, to our: great ter- 
1 heard the city clock ſtrike. = | 

' Overwhelmed, as we were, by hunger, 
9 fatigue, and pain, it was impoſtible we 
- ſhould hold out through the day. After 
ſome conſideration, and another half Sue's i 
labour, we came to a village at the foot of 
1 the mountain, on the ſide of which, about | 
F. p pen bee hundred paces from us, we perceived 
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4 then cut my finger, rubbed the blood 3 
over my face, my ſhirt, and my coat, (and. 
bound up my head, to give myſelf the ab- 
Pearance of a man dangerouſly wounded. IJ 

In this condition I carried Schell to . 4 
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here he tied my hands behind my back; büuůt 
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88 i them to run to the village, and 
tell a magiſtrate to come ieee with, - 

a cart. I have ſeiſed this knaves* 
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man and a pretty girl ſeemed to take great 
-pity on me, and gave me ſome bread and 
milk: but how great wagigur aſtoniſhment 
when the aged peaſant Mt Schell by his 
name, and told him he well knew we were 
deſerters, having the night before been at 
a neighbouring alchouſe, where the officer 


is pourſuit of us came, named and deſcribed 


28, aad related the whole hiſtory of our 
flight. The peaſant knew Schell, becauſe 


2 his ſon ſerved! in his company, and had often 


ſpoken of him when he was quartered at 
Habelchwerr. 
Preſence of mind and reſolution were all 
. were now left. I inſtantly ran to the 
Mable, while Schell detained the peaſant in 
de chamber: he however was a worthy ' 
man, and directed him the road toward Bo- 
12 hemis. Wi'oe were Ril but about ſome ſeven 
= miles from Glatz, having loſt ourſelves 
among the mountains, where we had wan- 
dered many miles. The daughter followed 
me: l found three horſes in the ſtable, but 
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affected, ſeemed half willing to follow me, 
and gave me two bridles. I led the horſes 
to the door, called Schell, and helped him, 
with his lame leg, on horſeback. The old 
peaſant then began to weep, and beg 1 
would not take his horſes ; but he luckily 
wanted courage, and perhaps the will to 

| Impede us; for with nothing more than a 
dung - fork, in our then feeble condition, he 

might have ſtopped us long enough to have 9 
called in aſſiſtance from the village. 7 

And now behold us on horſeback, N 3H 
out hats or ſaddles ; Schell with his uniform - 
_ and gorget, and I in my red regimental 7 I 

Still were we in danger of ſeeing all 

our re vaniſn, for my horſe would not 

ſtir from the ſtable: however, at laſt, prot: 8 3 ] 

horſeman like, I made him move. Schell 1 

led the way; and we had ſcarcely gone — Y 

hundred paces before we perceived the PR. 
 fants coming in crowds from the village. 

As kind fortune would have it, the bene 

were all at church, it being a feſtival: the 
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8 aid out of church. It was but nine in the 
morning; and had the peaſants becn at 
3 we had been loſt paſt redemption. 6 
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— and pals through the town, 
Where Schell had been quartered a month 
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can imagine, though. he never can deſcribe, 
3 | » the joy we felt. An innocent man, lan- | 
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= z&yours; has broken his chains, and re- 
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\ oppoſe him, conceives, in mon nents 
theſe, ſuch an abhorrence of deſporiſm, that 


life, all depend upon. a maſter's will, aud i 
who, were his intentions the moſt pure, = 


whole nation. 24 
more exquiſite than at this moment. My 


and now, after having carried him at leaſt 


| | have ſeen the forty years fearful, Ae 
2- that were to follow, I certainly hou my 
WEE have rejoiced at this my eſcape 1 om 

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1 could not well comprehend how. I ever 
could reſolve to live under governments 
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twelve hours on my ſhoulders, I had ſaved, 
both him and myſelf. We certainly ſhould 
not have ſuffered any man to bring-us ae 


back again to Glatz. Vet this was but . 


firſt act of the tragedy of which IJ was doomed 


the hero, and the mournful incidents of which 1 
all aroſe out of, and depended onzeach , 


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the irritated monarch; and, taking a retro- 

be: ſpect of all that has paſſed, I now find it 

would have been a fortunate circumſtance 

© had the good and faithful Schell and I never 
= met, ſince he alſo fell into a train of misfor- 
tunes, whic h I ſhall hereafter relate, and from 
© which he could never extricate himſelf but 

by death. The ſufferings which I have ſince 
undergone will be read with aſtoniſhment. 
I: is my conſolation that both the laws 
& of honour and nature juſtify the action. 1 
may ſerve as an example of the fortitude 
| „ with which danger ought to be encountered, 
& and ſhow monarchs that in Germany, as 


= well as in Rome, there are men who. refuſe 
= to crouch beneath the yoke of deſpotiſm, 
= and chat philoſophy and refolution are 
= ſtronger than even thoſe lords of ſlaves, with 
| 3 all their threats, whips, LY and inftru-- 
= ments of death  _ 
In Pruffia, where my folferiogs might 

Z - hows made me ſuppoſed the worſt of craicors, 

K 5 4s my innocen ce univerſally acknowledged; 

* Inſtead of contempt, there have 1 gained, 
the oye of the whole nation, wills is the” 


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beſt compenſation for all the ills 1 have ab. ? 
fered, and for having perſevered i in the vir⸗ 
tuous principles taught me in my youth, 
perſecuied, as I have been, by envy and 
malicious power. I have not time further, 
to moraliſe ; the numerous incidents of SY 
life would otherwiſe [well theſe volumes to 
too great an extent. 

Thus in freedom at Braunau, on 1 Bo- 
hemian frontiers, I ſent the two horſes, with 
the corporal's fword, back to general Fou- 3 | 
- quet, at Glatz. The letter accompanying A 
them was ſo pleaſing to him, that all the cen- J 
tinels before my priſon door, as well as the A 
guard under arms, and all thoſe we paſſec CY : 


85 


clated my eſcape was now rendered e * 1 
- ible. He, however, was deceived; and 4 
thus do the mean revenge themſelves on the 
wiſcrable, and the tyrant on the | innocent. 4 

And now, for the firſt time, did; [quit wy. I 
country, and fly, like Joſeph, from the pit oY 
into which his falſe brethren had caſt l nin 


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y leap the loſs even of friends a 
country 3 to me he excels * Hock 
| fortune. [9's - 

Tl be eſtates which had been . by 
the blood of my forefathers were confiſcated ; 
rand thus was a youth, of one of the nobleſt 
families in the land, whoſe heart was all zeal 


for the ſervice of his king and country, and 
who was among thoſe moſt capable to render 


chem | ſervice, baniſhed by this unjuſt and. 
ned king, and treated like the worſt of 
| : | miſcreants, malefactors, and traitors. 
I wrote to the king, and ſent him a fre 
1 ate of my caſe; ſent indubitable proofs of 
1 7 innocence, and ſupplicated Jolie, ber | 
| 1 received no anſwer. | 1 
nm this the monarch may be juſtified, at 
I ' Jeaft 1 in my apprehenſion. A wicked maß . 
bad maliciouſly and falſely accuſed mee 
| colonel. Taſchinſky had made him fuſpeFt 
me for a traitor, and it was impoffible he 
I ſhould read my heart. The firſt act of. inuſ- | 
1 had been haftily committed; I had been 
4 condemned unheard, urjudged, and the in- 
E hat had been done: me Was hs nh: SY 
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doo late; Frederic the Great e 
not infallible. Pardon 1 would not aſk; for - 


3 conduct, 'he had been > : 
My reſolution increaſed his A = | ; 
WM + | ths diſcuſſion of the cauſe, our Power was 


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very unequall.. 

The monarch once really loved me 

he meant my puniſhment ſhould on 

| 5 temporary, and as a trial of my Adel 5 
That I had been condemned to no mere 

chan a year's impr iſonment had never Been 

5 told me, and was a fact I did not learn i 

long after 4 

Major Doo, who as I have aid: was tie 

creature of Fouquet, a mean and covetous 

= man, 2 I had money, had a 

1 e part of a protector, as he pretend- 
„  <d me, ag heontinually told me 1 * c 

condemned for life. He perpervall 

tlie converſation on the great credit, 

ES. general with- the king, and Kis' own. 

3 credit with the general. 8 

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Sexe me dhe freedom of walking about the 
0 tre; and for another, worth a hundred 
ducats, reſcued enſign Reitz from death, 
Who had been betrayed when endeavour- 
ing to effect our eſcape. I have been aſ- 
ſured that, on that very day on which I 
ſnatched his ſword from his ſide, deſperate- 
- Jy paſſed through the garriſon, and leaped 
- he walls of the rampart, he was expreſsly 
dome to tell me, after ſome prefatory threats, 
4 by, * at, by his general's interceſſion, my puniſh- 
i 4 ent was only to be a year's impriſonment, 
and that, conſequently, I ſhould be . 
E in a few days. 
= 453 How vile were means like theſe to wreſt 
1 Money from the unfortunate ! The king, 
= after this my mad flight, certainly was never 
informed of the major's baſe cunning; he 
2 could only be told that, rather than wait a 
E few days, I had choſen, in this deſperate 
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was unbounded ?. How could he do other bk 
wiſe than impriſon a ſubject, Who thus en- 
deavoured to injure him, and aid his foes? 
Thus, by the calumnies of wicked men, dd 
my cruel deſtiny daily become more ſevere, 
and at length render the deceived monarch, 
irreconcileable and cruel. - *Y 

Yet how could it be ſuppoſed chat 1 3 | 1 

not willingly have remained three weeks I 

| longer in prifon, to have been honourablx 

_ reſtored to liberty; to have prevented the 1 

| confiſcation of my eſtate ; and to have once 0 

more returned to my loved miſtreſs at Berlin? 

And now was I, in Bohemia, 4 — 
ſtranger, without money, protector, op 
friend, and only twenty years of ; 125 ce "4 

In the campaign of 1744, I had been 
quartered at Braunau, with a weaver, whore 
I adviſedjand aſſiſted to bury his effects, a 
_ preſerve; them from being plundered.” The. 
_ worthy man received us with joy and gra- 
titude. I had lived in this ſame houſe,- but [ 
two years before, as abſolute maſter of him : 
and his fate. I had then nite horſes and. 
| five abe, with ow hight | anc moſt a- 
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FF a' fugitive, ſeek ing protection, and having 
Þ$ loft all a youth like-me had to IoſGQ. 


I had but a fingle louis d'or in my purſe, 


= 42 Schell forty kreutzers, or ſome three 
= ſhillings: with this ſmall ſum, in a ſtrange 


country, we had to cure his 1 GG 


YIge For all our wants. 


I was determined not to g0 to my couſin © 


a Juſtification of all my impured creaſons :- + 
rather wiſhed to embark for the Eaſt 1 ndies, 


than to have recourſe to this expedient... 
The greater my delicacy was, the greater 
became my diſtreſs. I wrote to my miſtreſs 


gern, but received no anſwer ; poſſibly 


? 


Aker three weeks base at We 1 my 


5 F friend recovered of his lameneſs. We had 
oh been 8 to ſell my: ad with his fowl... 
3 3 * : . ; |; and oh 


E becauſe I could not indicate any certain 
WE mode of conveyance. My mother believed 
= me guilty, and abandoned me; my brothers 
| 3 i were {ill minors; and my friend, at Schweid- 

A 2 we could not aid me, being gone to Ko- | 


tink gorget, to et our eee and MY : | 


= had only four florins remaining. 


effect this neus had upon me. 


ence from poverty; my wants had all . 70 
amply ſupplied, and I had ever lived Among | 


flirſt people of the land. I was: Aids: 
_ . tute, without aid, and undes how: to 
ſeel employment or obtain fam. 


| 1 Pruſſia, to my mother, and dane | 
from her, and afterward enter into the Ruſs > 


linked to mine, would not forſake me. We 
aſſumed falſe names; I called myſelf Rye 


a the Auſtrian T renck, was at this tinkes: 7 A 


the 2 1ſt of January in the evening, unſten JF 
of any perſon, and proceeded towards Mfg T. 1 1 
; = ae A friend _ had N rg cot 


From the public papers 1 ane my cou- 


ae confined, and wander erent 
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and Schell, Leſch; then obtaining reins > 
like common deſerters, we left Braunau on 


Era PF 
I | me . pair * pocket piſtols, a muſket, FEY 
A mw ducats ; the money was ſpent at Brau- 
nau. Here let me take occaſion to remark, 
3 3 Xk had lent this friend, in urgent neceſſity, a f 
i * hundred ducats, which he ſtill owed me; 
| and, when I ſent to requeſt payment, he re- 
Is od me three, as if I had aſked charity. 
Though a circumſtantial deſcription of 
ha: * oy travels would alone fill a volume, I ſhall 
een, relate the moſt ſingular accidents which 
happened to us; I ſhall alſo inſert the journal 
of our route, which my friend Schell had 
preſerved, and gave me, in 1776, when he 
came to ſee me at Aix- la-Chapelle, Arne an 
i * 2 bſence of thirty 8 ES; 
E:- This may be called the firſt ſcene in nick = 
bi 5 e! as an adventurer; and perhaps 
l X my good fortune may even have overbalanc- 
ed the. bad, fince I have eſcaped death full 
190 times, when the chances were at leaſt | 
2 hundred to one againſt me : certain it is, 
beben many things in which I ſeemed 'F 
to have owed my preſervation to the very 
raſtineſs-of the action, and in which others N 
h brave would have found dea. 
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Of travels on foot, from Brenan; in Ba of 


mia, through Blitz in Poland, 10  Meferitz ; - 
aud from Meſeritæ 27 Thorn, to Elbing; in the + 
- whole 169 miles 2 performed without begging | 


or. ftealing. * 


ah. 18, 1747. From Braunau, ian Po 


forins forty-five kreutzers in our purſe. 


Jan. 19. To Neuſtadt. ' Here Schell mw. 7 


tered his uniform for an old coat; and a 
Jew gave him two florins fifteen kreutzers 


in exchange: from hence we went o 2 E 


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4 4 Ys 7 5 Fa & I”. 
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Reichenau; in all three miles. 


nearly cauſed my * THY oblige WP. 


The German mile contains {Goa bons 700 = 


- Engliſh miles; and this variation appears to depes 
on the ignorance of the people, and on the roads 
being in ſome places but little frequented. It ſeems: . 


way the Baron and his 5 Wight] travel about... 14 
. oo 3 ee, Fo =o e * 1 1 A 4 


Jan. 20. We went to Leutomiſchel, 1 I 
five miles. Here I bought a loaf hot gut 1 4 
75 of the oven, which, eating greedily, hall I : 


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to Nachod, three miles, we having three i 


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wares: * Vw kad "4a Wa 


( 114. ) 
0 reſt a day ; and the extravagant charge of | 
the landlord almoſt emptied our purſe. : 
Jan. 22. From Tribau to  Zwictaw in 
r four miles. | 
Jan. 23. To Sternberg, fix miles. This 
> ay journey exceſſively fatigued poor 
E: Schell; his ſprained ancle being ill ex- 
| . Hemgly weak. 5 
Jan. 24. To Leipnitz, four miles; in a 
0 now, and with empty ſtomachs. Here 
I fold my. ſtock-buckle for four florins. 
Jan. 25. Tb Freyberg, by Weiſkirch, 


— 


. = to Drachotuſch, five miles. Early in the 
9 Morning we found a violin and caſe on the 


road; the innkeeper in Weiſkirch gave us 
to florins for it, on condition that he ſhould 
return it to the owner, on proying his right; 
Ry i being worth at leaſt twenty. 

Jan. 26. To Freideck, in Upper Stege. 
0 miles. e 
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0 4s. \Through Scotſcha to Biltz, * 


Wen on the frontiers of Poland; and. wo 4 


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Wh: my property, and, in order to ſecure it, 


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rain C. api, of the regiment of Mariſchall, 
who commanded the garrifon, demanded 


our pafſports. We had falſe names, and 
called ourſelves common Pruſſian deferter$;” 
but a drummer who had deſerted from 


Glatz knew us, and betrayed us to the cap- 
rain, Who immediately arreſted us very 


rudely, and ſent us on foot to T eſchin, re- 


fuſing us a hearing, four miles diſtant. 


Here we found liemtenant-colonel baron 3 f 
Schwarzer, a perfectly worthy man, who vas 55 


highly intereſted in our behalf, and wie 
blamed the irregular arbitrary conduct of 


eaptain Capi. 1 frankly related my W. 


tures, and he uſed every poſſible argument ta 
perſuade me, inſtead of continuing my e 
ney through Poland, to go-to Vienna; but 
in vain: my good genius this time ror # 
me: would to God it had ever! How many 

miſeries had I then avoided, and how e 

might} have eſcaped the ſnares ſpread for*. 
mee by the powerful, who have ſeized on 


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Bilitz, travelling theſe four miles once more. 
Schwarzer lent us his own horſe, and four 


difeats, which 1 have ſince repaid, but which 
I hall never forget, as they were of ſignal 


- ſervice to me, and e me a por of 


new boots. _ 
Ixritated againſt captain Candi we paſſed 


| 1 Bilitz without ſtopping, went im- 


mediately to Biala, the firſt town in Poland, 
and from thence I ſent Capi a challenge to 
— fight me with ſword or piſtol, but received 
no anſwer; and his non- appearance has ever 


. confirmed him in my opinion a raſcal. 


And here ſuffer me to take a retroſpeQive 
view of what was my then ſituation. By 
. orders of Capi I was ſent priſoner as a 
. common deſerter, and was 
unable to call him to account. In Poland, 
indeed, 1 had that power, but was deſpiſed. 

a vagabond, becauſe of my poverty. 
What, alas! are the advantages which the 
love of honour, ſcience, courage, or deſire of 
- fame can beſtow, wanting the means that 
Jhould Fes us. 90K: and bid us walk. S 


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of thoſe who beſt can afford example and 
inſtruction. I had lived familiar with Prey 
great; men of genius had formed and en- 
lightened me; I had been enumerated. ö 
among the favourites of a court; and now .. 
was I a ſtranger, unknown, uneſteemed, | 
nay, contemned, obliged to endure the ex 
tremes of cold, hunger, and thirſt ; to wan- 1 -j 
der many a weary mile, ſuffering both — 1 
body and mind, while every ſtep led me 
farther from her whom JI moſt loved, and 
deareſt; yet had I no fixed plan, no certain ü 
knowledge in what thele my labours and 3 A 
ſufferings ſhould end. 5 1 A 
Iwas too proud to diſcover pale but GE 
indeed to whom could I diſcover myſelf in 1 J FE 
a ſtrange land? My name might have aval- 
ed me in Auſtria; but in Auſtria, where © 
this name was known, would | not remain; 
rather than ſeek my fortune there, I u 
determined to ſhun whatever might" tend o 
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fatigues, and diſappointments, hard to en- 


5 dure, to betray me into all thoſe errors of 


which Taſh youth, unaccuſtomed to hard- 


Ps impatient of contrariety, are ſo often 


guilty ! But I had taken my reſolution; and 


| amy faithful Schell, to whom hunger, or eaſe, 


contempt, or fame, for my fake, were * | 
come indifferent, did whatever I deſired. | 

Once more to my journal. 

Feb. 1. We proceeded tour miles from 
- Biala to Obvintzin, -T having determined to 
alk aid from my ſiſter, who had married 
Waldow and lived, much at her caſe, on 
1 fine eſtate at Hanmer in Brandenburgh, 
between Lanſberg on the Warta and Me- 


» Klit, A frontier town of Poland. F or this 
. 1 reaſon we continued our route all along the 
8 ben confines to Meſerirz. 


Feb. 2.. To Bobrek and Elkoch, 2 


* We ſuffered much this day becauſe 
: of the ſnow, and chat the lightneſs of our 

dress was. ill ſuited to ſuch ſevere. weather. . 
3 Schell, negli gently, loſt our purſe, in wWhick 
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- Feb. 3. 'To Crumelew, three cling 3 
Feb. 4. To Wladowiegud Joreck, three | 
miles more; and from thence, | on EY 2 4 
Red. $, £0 Czenſtochowa, where chere 
is a magnificent convent, concerning which. 
had 1 room, | might write many remarks I | 
able things, much to the diſgrace of its in- | 2 | 
33 ts LIED . 3 
15 We ept at an inn kept dye a very worthy - 1 
man, whoſe name was Lazar. He had 
been a lieutenant in the Auſtrian ſervices. 
Where he had ſuffered much, and was now. 
become a poor innkeeper in Poland. + We 
had not a penny in our purſe, and requeſte c | 
a bit of bread. The generous man 1 1 
compaſſion on us, and defired us. do fie: 
_ down, and eat with himſelf, I then to la” c 
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kuſch, and one of theſe people had aſked 
Schell where we were going: be had re- 
plied, to Czenſtochowa: we therefore had 
not the leaſt ſuſpicion of them, notwith- 
= ftanding the danger we ran. 
my They lay at the inn, ſaluted us, but with 
E indifference, not ſeeming to notice us, and 
* ſpoke little. We had not been long in bed 
before our hoſt came to awaken us, and told 
1 us, with ſurpriſe, theſe pretended merchants 
© were ſent to arreſt us from Pruſſia; that they 
had offered, fiſt, fifty, afterwards a hun- 
dred ducats, if he would permit them to 
3 rake us in his houſe, and carry us into Sile- 
2 8 that he had firmly rejected the propoſal, . 
* Mough they had increaſed their Promiſes ; 
and that at laſt they had given him ſix ducats 
to engage his filence. e 
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weder oer ſent by General Fe ouquet, to 
recover us. We orie ctured by what wess 
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retorted I; © that will give me an opportu- 
< nity of diſpatching them, . ſending them to 
ce. the other world, and ſhooting them as I 
© would highwaymen.“ They departed at 

1 break ak e and took the road to War- 
We won! have been gone kkewite; 3 but 
8 in ſome ſort, forcibly detained us, 
and gave us the ſix ducats he had received 

: +. from the Pruſſians, with which we bought 
us each a ſhirt, another pair of pocket piſ- 
He tols, and other urgent; neceſſaries; then 
N took an affectionate leave of our boſt, who 
2 directed us on our way, and we teſtified our 
TR gratirude for the great ſervices done us. 
Feb. 6. From Czenſtochowa to Dankow, 
* o miles. Here we expected an attack. 
| Lazar had told us our enemies had only one 
muſket: I alſo had a muſket, and an ex- 
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Feb. 7. We took the road to Parkin 
we had not been an hour on the road before A 
we ſaw a carriage: as we drew near, we 
knew it to be that of our enemies, s 
8 pretended it was ſet in the now. "hey 1 
were round it, and, when they ſaw us up- 15 * 
proach, began to call for help. This, we 
gueſſed, was an artifice to entrap us. 
Schell was not ſtrong ; they would all have 
fallen upon me, and we ſhould eaſily have | 
K carried off; ol for oy wanted- to rake | 
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riage, drew out their piſtols; and eee 
full ſpeed after us, called, © © Stop, raſeaſs AN | 
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defect him, nl as he was defending d 

vimſelf with his ſword, perceiving he bled 
and made a feeble reſiſtance, preſſed upon 
bim, and gave him a ſtroke that brought 
=; bind down. J inſtantly returned to Schell, 
whom I found in the power of two others 
that were dragging him towards the car- 
Triage; but when they ſaw me at eser . 
* fled over tbe fields, The coachman, 
Perceiving which way the battle went, 
| kaped on his. ben, and drove off full 


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Y * Schell, though. deliver was vodatied 
E- h a ball in the neck; and by a cut in the 
right hand, which had made him drop Ins 
ſwoꝛd; though he affirmed he had run one 5 
of his adverſaries thtougn. 
I tock a ſilver watch e hat 
and was going to make free with his 
purſe, when Schell called, and ſhowed me 
ale fix coming down a hill. To 
- tay would have expoſed us to have been 
impriſoned as highwaymen:- for the two | 
+ fugitives, who had eſcaped us, would cer. 


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EE . aoula be found in füght. FE however, 
ſeiaed the muſket and hat of him I had firſt 
killed, and we then gained the copſe; ani 
after that the foreſt. The road was round 
about, and it was ni ww before 3 we reached | | 1 | 
Parſemech. 32 
Schell was W mich {od 1 8. 
bound; up his wound the. belt FF ;.but - WM 

in Poliſh villages no ſurgeons are to be found; = 
and he performed his journey with: 8 2M 
difficulty. We met with two; ax un ; 2408 
officers; here, who were recruiling for 1586 
regiment of guards at Dreſden! My et 
height and perſon pleaſed them, and Wes / 


with me. I found them intelligent, and 
| entruſted them with our ſecret, told tem 
who we were, related the battle we had * 53 3 
day had with our purſuers; and 1 bad not 4 5 
_ reaſon to repent of my confidence i in. them. "mm 
Schell had his wounds dreſt, and ve TE B 
mained ſeven days with theſe good Sazons, 


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bi 2 che coachman, ENTER ling 6 lin 
Tube name of the officer, who undertook 
this vile buſineſs, was Gerſdorf; he had 
a2 hundred and fifty ducats in his pocket 
when found dead. Hou great would our 
good fortune have been, had not that curſed 
Coach and ſih b: y\its appearance, made us 
_ take to flight; ſince the booty would have 
been moſt quit! F ortune, this time, did not 
- (favour: the innocent; and though treache- 
. *2 5 cena attack ed, I was obliged to efcape 
4 ke a guilty wretch. We ſold che wateh 
4 to a Jew for four FR NE the hat for three 
| | erde and à half, and the muſket „ 
ducat, Schell being unable to carry it far- 
ther. Wie left moſt of this money behind 
3 | us at Parſemechi. A Jew ſurgeon ſold us 
f 3 me dear e ee we ee en _ 
I And depaired. N 1 * 
Feb. 15. 7 rom Parſemechi rough. 
"Views, to Biala, four: mile. 
Feb. 16. | Through Jeridibony to Miſor- 


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8 Feb. 18. To Sdune, four miles. eee 1 
Feb. 19. To Goblin, two miles. 
Here we arrived wholly deſtitute of mo< - 

ney. I fold my coat to a Jew, who gave me 


| four florins and a coarſe waggoner's ſtock ir 
exchange, which I did not think I ſhoulz - 3 
long need, as we now drew nggrer to where 
my ſiſter lived, and where I hoped: mould 9 
be better equipped. Sehell, however, grew | I 
| weaker and weaker; his wounds hepled 
' flowly, and were expenſive ; the cok alſo 4 
was injurious to him; and; as he was not 
by nature cleanly in his perſon, his be 
ſoon became che harbour of every ſpecies of © 
vermin to be picked up in Poland. We 
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to lie on ſtraw, or th bare boar 5 Y 
the various hardſhips we ſuffers 1M 


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midſt of winter, through | Poland, Wers MF 
| humanity, hoſpitality,” and gentle. pity: are 


he ey” ſo much as K b 1 
25 'Y ;; here mercileſs Jews deny che poor trabelleſ RK 
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e ſufferings, the full | extent of winch 
; he only can conceive by whom they have 
been fell. My muſket now and then pro- 
cured us an occalional meal of tame geeſe, 
and cocks and hens, when theſe were to be 
4 oy we never took or touched > 
any thing that was not our own. We met 
Vith Saxon and Pruſſian recruiters at va- 
_ riqus places; all of whom, on account of 
my youth and ſtature, were eager to in- 
veigle me. 1 was highly diverted. to * 
| them enumerate all the pollibilities. of future; 
grearnefs; and how liable I was hereafter to 
| become a corporal; nor was I leſs merry 
= with their mead, ale, and brandy, given with 
intent to. make me drunk. Thus had 
pee many artifices to guard againſt; but thus, 


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4 good * ole? 1551 
Feb. 21. We went from Goblin, to. 
* Pognita, chree miles and a half. 
Feb. 22. Through Seuche to SY 
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The peaſants at this place were dancing W 2 
a vile ſcraper on the violin: I took the 1 in- 3 


1 myſelf, and ; 3 
continued 4 * hi 5 1 


me, firſt by brpestenieirs, and after 
5 by threats, to play on all night. IL. was bor. 
I thought I ſhould have fainted :_ at; i 
they quarrelled among thenaſelvess! 
n Was ge on a TI and. n 7 


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t me, and while all was in confulion we, / = 

eſcaped without farther ill treatment. 8 3 I 
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and here was I, in a Poliſh hut, à 18 e 
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Had not my vanity led me to ſhow theſe 
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have ſlept in peace and ſafety. The ſame 
vain deſire of proving I knew more than 
other men, made me, through life, the con- 
tinued victim of envy and ſlander. Had 
nature too beſtowed on me a weaker: or a2 
. deformed body, I had been leſs obſerved, 

leſß courted, lefs ſought, and my adventures 
UNE had been fewer. Thus the 
merits of the man often become his miſe- 
- ries; and chus the bear, having learned to 
OO tnuſblive and die in chains Gr 
This ardeur, this vanity, + or, if you 
dee this emulation;-- has however ue 
- me to vanquiſh a thouſand difficulties, un- 
a which 2 of cooler paſſions, 2 . 
deſires, would have ſunk. 
4 my example remain a warning, and 


1 mi my ſufferings become ſome- 
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vent dying of hunger, a ſhirt, and Sehell's 
wWaiſtcoat, for eighteen groſch, or ike. 
ſchoſtack. I had ſhot a pullet the day he- 
fore, which neceſſity obliged us to eat raw 
I 6alſo killed a crow, which I: dev 
alone, Schell refuſing to taſte. Youth! k i 
hard travelling created a voracious: appetite,” i 
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Feb. 24. We came Aeg Bene o 

dig four miles. Here we halted a day, 

do learn the road to Hammer in Bfanden d 
burg, where my ſiſter lived. 1 
luckily, to meet with the wiſe of 4 Pruſſian 
ſoldiier, who lived at 
to Kôlſchen, where ſhé was 

my ſiſter's huſband. I told her 

5 2 ſhe became our guide. 

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Got, and afterwards through a pathleſs 
Wood, five miles and a half to Hammer; 
1 hete I knocked at my re door at 


nine o glock in r 


1 maid ſeryant came to the door, whom 
$ lies, her name was Mary, and ſhe had 
been born and brought up in my father's 
. ow She was terrified at ſeeing à ſturdy 


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fellow in a beggar's dreſs ; which perceiv- 
ing, I aſked, © Molly, do not you know 
| I me; She anſwered, © No;” and I then 
. diſcovered myſelf to her. I aſked whether 


my brother-in-law was at home. Mary 
3 "replied, Ves; but he was ſick in bed.“ 
. 1 then“ ſaid I, that I am 
7 Pere.“ ene into a room, and 


Ihe has alariped-et dung me, not N | 
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- an; X0. Inform her huſba | * 


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A quarter of an And N the good ; 
ary came r and told us her — Y 


and delivered up as priſoners; ; 
y ſiſter's huſband forcibly 
an I ſaw her no more. 


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5 | menaces agai 
the kind-hearted Mary, till: 
ped three ducats into my. 
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paces ee ; 2 
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| ates. of Branden 


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ber at Views" in Alu here Leook grest 
Care of her. She was about fifty years of 
age, and died my fervant in Hungary, ſome 
weeks before my unfortunate” journey to 
. where I fell into my enemies 
© hands, eck remained ten years a nner 
1 We had — reached the wood, | — 
1 5 - fore; in the anguiſh of my heart, I exclaim- 
3 3 E. ; ecken, * Does not ſuch a ſiſter, my 


1 A '« Sen deſerve 1 ſheuld fire the houſe 


. -over her head?” The wiſdom of mode- 
3 mon, and calm forbearance, was in Schell 
of the higheſt order: he was my 
= cont al Mentor; my guide, whenever my 
Z 4 choleric temperament was diſpoſed to vio- 
wee. 1 therefore honor his aſhes; he 
deſerved a better fatmee.. 
* . Friend,“ ſaid he, on - this: oecaſiom 
5 15 reflect, that your ſiſter may be innocent, 
may be withheld by her huſband; be- 
. de ſhould the king diſcover we Had 
. * entered Ie doors, and ſhe” bad not 


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. mne Might become as iniſerable as we 
. were. 


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BED... were. Be more noble ded; and amt 
that, even ſhould your ſiſter be wrong; NY 
the time may came when her children 
may ſtand in need of your aſſiſtance, and * 
« you may have the OT _— 5 
« of returning 2804 r evik! ?!?? . 
I never ſhall forget this ee Abieez be 
| which in reality was a prophecy. "My rich” | 
| brother-in-law died, and, during the Ruſs ' 
ian war, his lands and houſes were laid de. 
folate and in ruins; and, nirſeteen years aft- * Þ 
erwards, when releaſed from my impriſun— 


ment at Magdeburg, I had an opportunity? 7 4 | 


3 


of ſerving the children of my ſiſter. Such = 
are the turns of fate ; and thus do imp oba-- 
bilities become facts. _ f 
Mil ſiſter juſtißed 158 e Schell 
had conjectured the truth; for ten years after * 
I was thus expelled her le, ſhe ſhawedh, 
during my impriſonment, ſhe. was really s 
ſifter. She was ſhamefully betrayed W Ky 
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1 i cingarten, the juſt ob- | 
= of vengeance, is loog ſince; in the grave; 
| = the earth. ſhould. not hide 
= journal. 
=  exived in the aid 1 expected. I was obliged 
my plan, and go to my mother, 
Who lived in Pruſſia, nine miles 


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one day, three 
for tune to ride. 


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an old woman was drawing bread hot our 


We had no money to offer ; 
pt at this moment, 


of the oven. 
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March 6. We dec at came, on the 


ol through Genin, to a iy in the fo- 
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Here we fell in with a gang * . ies 
kor :rather banditti]l, amounting to four 


hundred men, who dragged me to their 


camp. They were moſtly F rench and Pruſ- 
Ban deſerters ;- and, thinking me their equal, 


would force me to become one of their 
3 band. But venturing to tell my ſtory to 
their leader, he preſented me with a crown, 


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_ us a fall. Provifion of bread and 
meat, and ſuffered us to depart in peace, 


after having been ar * OP HOMES in 
3 2 their company. 9112 4 


March 9. We bee to Lapuſchiny 


GS miles and a half ; and N roy to 


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den bar nis 


A new ineident here Sinha which 


- ſhowed I was deſtined, by fortune, to a va- 
niety of adventures, f 
dausgbe wich den difficulties, se. 
XS and Was a fair held at Thom on the 


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day oor bribvält See n ar 19 
ariſe among the crowd, on ſeeing a ſtrong 1 


large ſabre by his Gde; and a pair ef piſtols © | 


poorly apparelled as himſelf, with his hand 

and neck bound up, and armed likewiſe © 
with piſtols; fo that altogether he more re. . 1 
| ſembled a ſpegtre than a man 2 


dor. They ſuppoſed at firſt I was a thief} Y : 
come to ſeek an aſylum. After long wee 4 1 1 
ing, and much entreaty, his ee | 
highneſs at length made his appearance, 
and received me as the Grand Mog a ; 
would his flave. My caſe certainiy was 
pitiable: I related all the events of m . —⸗ . 
life, and the purport of my journey ; cn. I 1 
jured him to fave Schell, who was''unabls 


grew daily wor 
tlain him at the convent till L ſhou 
. been to my viking: have 00 uned 


tall young man, wretchedly clothed, with a - 


in his girdle, accompanied by another as 


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Me went to an inn, but were refuſed a r 2 = 
uinment: 1 then aſked for the Jeſuits” col 3 4 
lege, where I inquired for the father-reee 


to proceed farther,” and whoſe a, 4 


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| "tb nies: es: Thor, e 
mainly repay him whatever expence he might 
* been at, with thanks and gratitude. 
Never ſhall I forget the haughty a: 
5 5 of this prieſt. Scarcely would he 
| lifter: to my humble requeſt; thou-ed a 
interrupted me continually, to tell me. 1 
©-bnetz- I have more preſſing affaits than 
= - ee thine.” In fine, I was turned away 
T _ without ag the leaſt: aſſiſtance and 
ber vas firſt taught Jeſuitical pride; 
= God: help. the. poor and honeſt man wha 
dau need che aſſiſtance of Jeſuits! They. 
nie all other monks, are feared to every 
© ſentiment of human pity, and cormilerare L 
4 dhe diſtreſſed by taunts and iron 
Pour times in my life I have fought *Y 
5 Kftance and advice from convents, and am 
convinced it is the duty of every honeſt 
man to aid in e * from the face of 
6 - the carth. | A C | 
bey ſuccour WY and SE ER = 
= Maw their--power may be idoliſed by the 
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vonian who had deſerted from the Auſttians, 


d return home and claim an. inheritance left 
: 4 e by my father. After much perſuaſion, 
de at length cold me in confidence, It 
woas very well known in the town that I 


ee was a robber; that I ſhould ſoon be taken 


s before a magiſtrate; but that, if I would 
s enliſt, he would enſure wy ſafety.” - 


| 4 This language was new to me; my 55 
Gon: roſe inſtantaneouſſy; 1 I remembered 


LO my. name was Trenck. I ſtruek him, and 


drew my ſword; but, inſtead of defending 


himſelf, he ſprang out of che chamber, 
charging che hoſt not to let me quit the 
bouſe I knew the town of Thorn had 
agreed with the king of Pruſſia, ſecretly, 


to deliver up deſerters, and began to fear 


. the conſequences. Looking through the 
1 Window, I preſently ſaw two under Pruſ- 

> ſian officers, enter the houſe... Schell and I 
3 : ioftantly. flew-'to our arms, and met the 
EE: Weka at the chamber door- “ Make 


* way?!” cried I, preſenting my piſtols. 


| * f T he - Pruſſian ſoldiers drew their ſwards, 
IM 5 but . retired, with * Going o out of the , 


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houſe, I Gow 3 a Pruſfan lieutenant in mne 


F ſtreet, with the town- guard. Theſe 1 over- : X 1 4 


_ awed, likewiſe, by the fame means, and 


no one durſt oppoſe me, though every one 
cried ** Stop thief!” I came ſafely, — 
ever, to the Jeſuits' convent; but poor 


ä Schell was taken and eerst i bans: like e 
5 malefactor. i 5 


Half mad at not held: able 300 Nin 
| him, 4 imagined he muſt ſoon be delivered | 
up to the Pruſſians. My reception - Was 
much better at the convent than it had 
been before, for they. no longer doubted 
bot 1 was, really a thief, who ſought an 
5 aſylum. I addreſſed myſelf to one of the: 
fathers, who appeared to ba a gogd kind 


ol a man, related briefly. what had en 


ed, and entreated be would Pan. 8 


diſcover. Why they ſought to moleſt us, 


He went out, and retur ung in an has 


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- -< man where you put up is employed as 
A Pruffian enliſter, and has announced 
. you as ſuſpicious people. The Pruſſian 
lieutenant, thereupon, laid complaint 
* "againſt you, and it was. He n 
5 5106 ee perſons.” 
My joy,. King b i wi was great. 
Our Moravian 1 and the alba of 
our route, which T had in my. Pocket, were 


3 full proofs of our innocenee. 'T requeſted 


_ they would ſend and inquire at the town 
: [where we lay the night before. I ſoon 


-  {convineed the Jeſuit I ſpoke truth; he 


went, and preſently returned with ore of 
the ſyndies, to whom J gave a more full 


. | 6: 4; peg of rayſelf. The iy ndic examined 


Schell and found his ſtory and mine 
: agreed; beſides which, our papers, that 


EX they had ſeiſed, declared who we were. 


I paſſed the night in the convent, without 
x cloſing my eyes, revolving in my mind 
All the rigours of my fate. I was ſtill more 
| _ diftarbed for- Schell, v whe knew not where 
5 "mas, 1858 remained rm perſuaded. — 
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ſhould be conducted to Berlin; and, it 
ſo, determined to put a period to his . 
My doubts were all ended at ten in the 


morning, when my good Jeſuit arrived, 2 
and was followed by my friend Schell. The . 


judges, - he ſaid, had found us innocent, 4 | 
and declared us free to = "where we. pleaſedz, * 
adding, however, that he adviſed us to be 1 
upon our guard. we being watched by tbe 
Pruſſian enliſters ; that the lieutenant had 
hoped, by having us committed. as thieves, | 
to vblige me to enter, and this would account. pj 
for all that had happened. . = 


I gave Schell a moſt affectionate . x 


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who had been very ill .uſed;. when led to 

priſon, becauſe he endeayoured to defend 
himſelf with his left hand, and follow. me, 

The people had thrown mud at him, and, 

called him a raſcal that would ſoon be 
hanged. Schell Was little able to travel. — _ 
further. The father rector ſent us a dugat, 8 = 
| but did not ſee us; and the chief. AS - 

| inde mn fication for falſe pre op 
. 5 ſent away, we returned to 1 lodge. 
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W our bundles, _ d immediately prepared 

to leave Thorn. 
As we went, I be that, on the road 

10 Elbing, we muſt paſs through ſeveral 

Pruſſian villages, and inquired for a ſhop 

F. where we might purchaſe a map. We were 

directed to an old woman who fat at a door 

acroſs the way, and were told that ſhe had 

Aa good aſſortment, for that her fon was a 
ſcholar. 1 addreſſed myſelf to her, and 

my queſtion pleaſed her, I having added 
we were unfortunate travellers, who wiſhed 
_ to find. e mip, Lond road to Ruf- 

7% he alta: us into a habt, laid an 

IA alas on the table, and placed herſelf Op- 

55 : p ite me, While 1 examined the map, and 
2 : erfdfeavoured to hide a bit off a ragged 

tFlufffe that had made its appearance. Aſter 
© ſteadfaſtly looking at me, ſhe at kngth- EX 
claimed, with' a ſad and movurnfult tone, 

« Good: God! who knows what is now be⸗ 

. See f my poor ſon! 15 can ſee, fir, 

| . 5 e too, are of 4 good fartily:” My fon 

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oe! TR eight years have 1 Jad” no tidings 
of hirn. He muſt now be in the AU : 
«ſtrian cavalry,” T aſked in what? regi- 
ment. The regiment of Hohenhem | 
Sv you are his very picture. Is he n 
INE height ? P26 Ves nearly. It Has he? ” 

<< not light hair ??-=& Ves, ke yours, 
& fir,” —&© What is his name 2” His 1 
0 name is William. ee Nc, my dear r - | 


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2 ales was my beſt Hhetd* when I was with amp => 
<« regiment.” Here the poor womaneould| | E 
not contain herſelf with joy: She W 
herſelf round my neck, called me her gad 
angel who brought her happy tidings; afk“ = 
ed me a thoufand queſtions, Which I eaſily? Af 
contrived to make her anſwet herſelf; an“ 
thus, forced by imperious neceſlity," betet: 4 
pk all other means; did I aer the de- 
5 cbt den en eee en 


The ftory T made was "dans as ſollows#.. | 


I _ HEfold her'l was a foldier in the regient © - | 
= Hohentieni,! that I had a furlow.!t 8 aft — 
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iT ſee miy father, and that I et ren dn 2 


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| Ache that, if ſnhe wiſhed it, her fon 
- ſhould. purchaſe his diſcharge, and once 
more. come and live with his mother. 1 


added, that 1 ſhould be for ever, and infi- . 


3 nitely obliged to her, if ſhe would ſuffer 


my comrade mean time to live at her 


| houſe, he being wounded by the Pruſſian 
1 5 recruiters, 'and unable to purſue his jour- 
ney z that I would ſend him money to come 
to me, or would myſelf come back and 
fetch him, thankfully paying every ex- 
pence. She joyfully conſented; told me 
her ſecond huſband, father-in-law to her 

dear William, had driven him from home, 
dat be might give what ſubſtance, they had 
| | 5 to the younger , ſon; and that the eldeſt 
; had gone to Magdeburg. She determin- 


E ed Schell ſhould live, at the houſe; of 55 
fktend, that her huſpand might know no- 


| thing of. the matter; and, not ſatisfied 
5 With this. kindneſs, ſhe made me cat. with 
* heb gave me a new ſhict, ſtackings, 
9 ſofficient proviſion for three days, and ix 


- Lunenburg florins. I left Thorn, and 4 


c Sebel, de dune night, with ie 
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or the deſpondence of my mind, when. 1 
| thus ſaw myſelf wandering alone; and Jeav- 
ing, forſaking as it were, the deareſt of friends, 
Theſe may certainly de numbered among 

the bittereſt moments of my life: Often 

was | ready to return, and drag him along 19 
With me, though at laſt reaſon cotiquered 


In theſe rwo days L travelled thirreeh hiles, 
-W lay at Mowe, in ſome ſtraw, © 


was 3 to the theft. My „ 

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Conſolation” he was well taken care of; and 
parted from him with regret, 1 went, Eo [ 
-on this _ 1 0 5 two miles N nnT 120 Bu. . 
glow. SH 447 - 03-9 "WP 
I cannot deſcribe ER my fenfardnk were, = 


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ſenſibility. I drew near the end of my 155 : 

* and was impelled forward by ir, att 
March 14. 1 went to Schwetz, and, 8 
March 1 Go To Neuburg and Mowe. = 


among oi 
number of carters, and, when I awoket, 
perceived they had taken my piſtols, and. 


what little money I had left, even to my AE 


8 The 2 however * Aye _ 


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* reckon T's 5 8 


What dende I as? ? Hind inn] ry 


<< 50 N BEET 
Added to eighteen Poliſh greſch. \'Tke 
.furly landlord: pretended to believe - 1. Had | 
no money when I enteredchis houſe, and 
Was obliged to give him the only ſpare 
_ fre [. bad,. with a ſilk handkerchief, which 
; the good woman of Thorn had made me a 
2 5 preſeut of, and to EF withope, a! hogle 
: heller. 6 nn 185 In! 
n 6. -F Is off. 1 a: 
bot it was impoſſible. 1 ſhould. reach this 
Place, and not fall into the hands of the 


——, 


-Pruffians, if L. did not croſs the Viſtula; 
and, unfortunately, I had no money to pa 
che ferry, which ei colt tuo. 1 

| ſchellings. 20 | 

« LOS ull Far anxiety; i not . 1 ©. ”"Y 
* 1 ſaw two fiſhermen i in a boat, went to them, 
den my fabre, and obliged. them to, land 
1 me on the other ſide; when there, 1 took 5 


x the oars from theſe timid people, jumped 
dut of the boat, puſhed it off the 8 6 


be” tft. it to drive with the ſtream. I 
| To what dangers does not poverty cxpuls : 
man! Theſe two Poliſh ſchellings were not 
1 1 more chan half a kreutzer, or ſome 
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| nlfpenny 3 yet was I driven by neceſſity to 
commit viokence. on two Poor, men, who, 


yy had they been as deſperate in their defence” 
2s I was obliged to be in my attack, blood f 


muſt have been ſpilt, and lives loſt; hence 


it is evident that the degrees of guilt ought : 


3 to be ſtrictly and minutely inquired into, 


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and the degree of puniſhment, Dre 1 | 


had I hewn them down. with my ſabre, I 
_ ſhould ſurely have been a murdeter, but 4 
ſhould, likewiſe ſurely have been one of the 


moſt innocent of murderers. Thus we . 


the value of money is not to be eſtimated: 
1 by any ſpecific ſam, ſmall or great, but ac 
cording to its neceſſity and uſe. How Jirde 
did I imagine, when at Berlin, and money 
vas treated by me with luxurious. neglect, 
J may ſay, with contempt, I ſhould: be 
driven to the hard neceſſity, for, a, Um 6. 
apparently deſpicable, « of committing A vio- 
lence which might have. had onſequegces 
ſo dreadful, and have 1 the eee 
of an act ſo atrociouss +. N 


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I found Saxon and Prof Jan TEcruiters; N 

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1 ate, drank, liſtened to ie propoſaks, : 
gave them hopes for the morrow, and de- 
poarted by day- break. | 
March 17. ITV Elbing, four Nies. 
Here I met with my former worthy 
tutor, Brodowſky, who was become a cap- 
_ *fain, and auditor in the Poliſh regiment of 
Solz. a He met me juſt as I entered the 
town. 1 followed, triumphantly, to his 
quarters 5 and here ät length ended the 
painful, long, and adventurous j Hy I id 
Ea "oral ghiiged to perform. 
| This gobd and kind i after 
{wing me with immediate neceſſaries, 
. "rote ſo affectingly to my mother, that ſhe 
dme to Elbing in a week, and. my me 
"1 every ald of which I ſtood in need. 
The pleaſure I had in meeting once more 
ttmis tender mother, whoſe qualities of heart 
and mind were equally excellent, was inex- 
Preſfible. She found a certain mode of 
conveying a letter to my dear mies at 
Berlin, who, a ſhort time after; ſent me a bill 
0 exchange for four hundred ducats upon 
* 'To this T other added: a thov- 3 
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fand rix-dollars,. and a diamond'crofs worth A 


nearly half as much, remained a formmight” 


with me, and perſiſted, in ſpite of all re- 
monſtrance, in adviſing me to go to Vienna. 
terſburg; all my fears and apprehenſions 
being awakened at the thought of Vienna, 
and which, indeed, afterwards became the 


ſource of all my cruel. ſufferings and ſorrows: 


She would. not yield in opinion, and pro- 


miſed her future aſſiſtance only in caſe . 
my obedience: : it was my duty not to 
continue obſiinate. | Here ſhe left me, 3 
have never ſeen her ſince. She died in 17 % 
and I have ever held her memory in venerax 
tion. It was a happineſs for this affeftions - 
ate mother that ſhe did not live to be a wie. 
neſs of my afflictions, im the year 1754. 
An adventure, reſembling that of J OY 
in Egypt, happened to me in Elbing, The 
wife of the worthy Brodowſky, a woman of 
infinite: perſonal. attraction, grew partial to 
me; but 1 aur not act erte by: „ 


bene factor. Never to ſee me more was: wor”: = 
painful to ber, and ſhe even yropoſe: 16 


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follow me, ſecretly, to Vienna. I felt the 
danger of my ſituation, and doubted whether 
Patiphar's wife offered temptations ſo 
firong as madam Brodowſtey. I On 1 had 
au affection for rhis lady z but my paſſiohs 
were overawed. She preferred Nie to her 
| huſband, who was in years, and very or- 
Adinary in perſon. Had 1 yielded to the 
dighteſt degree of Zuilt, that of preſent: en- 
Joyment, a few days of pleaſure” ruſt have 
deen followed by years of bitter repentanee. 


= I © Having once more aſſumed my proper 


- fame and character, and made preſents of 
- acknowledgment. to the worthy © tutor of 
my e F became 55 at's "00: return to 
4 How great was my joy at again mecting 
my honeſt Schell! The kind old woman had 
reared him like a mother. She was ſur- 
priſe ail half terrified at ſceing me enter 
in an offfcer's- uniform, and accompanied 
by two ſervantz. I gratefully and raptur- 
ouſly kiſſed her hand; repaid; wick thank - 
falneſs, every expence ; for Schell had been 

nurtured, wich truly maternal wield W toll 


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her who 1 was; ackriowledged'the. ihe U A 
had put upon her concerning her ſon, St 
faithfully promiſed to give a true, and not 4 
fictitious, account of him immediately on 
my arrival at Vienna . Schell was ready | 
1n three days, and we left Thorn, came tö | 7 
Warſaw, and paſſed Eee through U 4 
eber to Vienna. e / = 
I inquired for Captain Capi" en] : 
who had before given me ſo kind a teccßg:- 5 
tion, and refuſed rile ſatisfactiom; büt he 
Was gone, and 1 cid not meet with Mar in: 


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fome years after, When the cunning min 3 I Z 
made me the moſt humble 4596 es of ms 
«1. ire 
Ge 80 goes the world. er or Y 2 : | 
43k; 4119 if IH 104 ; . "= Y 
. When 5 came to Vienna, I took all bene bein N 
to inguire for this William, and found; by the commit. 


ſary liſt, that he had deferted in 1744 ab } 
taken, and actually hanged. For a bribe of 4 Feva © 4 ö 
ducats I procured a eerti ficate of his having died a na- 4 
_ tural death, which, 1 ſet. to, the good. woman avithy . = 3 
'a, letter of thanks and. confolatiofl: Perhaps 1 the po q 
Willis, who. was Sr to twenty thouſand” Horn, : = 
unable to procure a farlow, had deferted, and was ex6- IIs 3 1 
cuted as a malt factor Tohow mauy reflectibus on” 8 4 1 i 
45 ae power; ſtanding armies, and ok, r þ : 
uud Nee Welte give birth! _. — ne 
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1 56 ) 
My journey from Dantzic to Vienna 
would not furniſh me with an intereſting 
page, though my travels on foot thither 
would have afforded thrice as much as [ 
- have written, had I not been fearful of writing 
© with che reader's patienc2. | . . 
In poverty one misfortune . an- 
other... The foot - paſſenger ſees the world; 
hecomes. acquainted. with, | it, conyerſes with 
men of. every claſs. The lord luxuriouſly 
Tolls. and flumbers in his carriage, while, his 
- ſervants pay inn- keepers and poſtillions, 
and paſſes rapidly over a kingdom in which 
. . be ſees ſome dozen houſes, called inns; 
and this he calls travelling, | L met with 
= _ more adventures in this my journey of 169 2 
| Files, than afterwards. in. almoſt as many 
is thouſand, when ee at e in a 1. 
5 1 1 
mie. how PET my FAY in Weh, * 
I from the hardſhips therein related, and nu- 
merous others omitted, I ſeem a oh 
ſecond Robinſon Cruſoe, and to have 
prepared, by a gradual. increaſe and repeti- 
non. of pings, 0 endute the load of 
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affftion which 1 Was ae deſtined * 
5 . 4 Vienna in. 3 month 1 
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And now another act of its ec * 
going to begin. ZI. 
After having FW Sar tha expences of = 
travelling for me and my friend Schell, for: .Y 
whoſe remarkable hiſtory I will endeavour 
to find a. few pages in my third volume, 1 "il 
divided the three hundred ducats which re: A I 
: mained with him; and, having ſtaid a month 
at Vienna, he went to join the regime | 3 
Pallavicini, in which he had/obthined!aJieus | 
tenant-colonel's commiſſion, and vhich wal 
then in Ita Nad baokat I 


Here L found my * in, 8 Fr anche. 
T renck, the famous partiſan. and colonel: wk 
pandours, impriſoned at the arſenal, and i n. 5 [ I 
: volved. in a moſt perplexing proſecution... /; of 

This Trenck was my. father's N * 
ſon. His father had been a colonel ad. | 4 ö 
1 of Leitſchau, and had poſſeſſed con? ; 
ſiderable lordſhips in. Sclayonia,..thoſe of | 
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the fiege of Vienna, in 1683, he had left the 
Pruſſian ſervice for that of a in 
which he remained ſixty years. 
That I may not here interrupt my dy, 
1 ſhall give ſome account of the life of my 
couſin baron Francis Trenck, ſo renowned 
in the war of 1 741 „in the third volume, 
and who fell, at laſt, the ſhameful ſacrifice 
of envy and avarice, and received the re- 
3 ward of all his great and n ſervices | in 
the priſon of the Spielberg. 4.9 
The vindication of the family of the 
= Trencks requires I ſhould ſpeak of him ; 
nor will I, in this, ſuffer reſtraint from the 
fear of any man, however powerful. Thoſe 
indeed who ſacrificed a man moſt ardent in : 
©: his country's ſervice, to their own: yes 
4 5 ſelfiſh views, are now in their graves. 

I chall inſert no more of his hiſtory here 
"Han what is interwoven with my own, and 
relate the reſt in its proper place. 

2 - 'A reviſion of his ſuit was at this tingg i in- 

i ſtitutell. Scetcely v was: F at- Vienna before 

2 huis confidential age M. Leber, preſented 
ae to "hike atlas a the n 55 : 

1 | TH 8 2 | | both IE 


the beſt of ſubjefts. The ſuit ſoon” took 
| another [face {the | good - empreſs queen, 
who had been deceived, was ſoon beiter 


highly intereſted: he commanded me to 


evidently. The trial, which thad'caſt.thews 


been partial and unjuſt; and that ee aF + Th 
| Trenck'y officers; who mot of nem hat, i 


Fes... . 
both knew the ſervices of Trenck, and the 
malice of his enemies; therefore permiſſion 
for me to viſit him in His priſon, and pro- 
cure him ſuch aſſiſtance as he might need: 
were readily granted. On my ſecond au- 


dience the emperor ſpoke ſo much in my 
perſecuted couſin's favour, that I became 


have recourſe to him on all occafions; and; 
moreover, owned the preſident of the coun- 
cil of war was a man of a 1 5 
character, and a declared enemy of Tren! 
This preſident was the count of Lowen⸗ 
walde, who; with his affociates; badge 
purpoſely ſelected as men proper to oppreſs 


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informed; and Trenck's innocence appear- 
ed, on the reviſion of the proceſs, moſt 'Y 


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twengy-ſeven thouſand florins, and the 
tence which followed, were proved to bas 


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been ©" WM for different offences, had per- 
- gured themſelves to inſure his deſtruction. 
It is a moſt remarkable circumſtance, that 
| public notice was given, in the Vaeuns Ge- 
1 x. the following purport. | 
* A thoſe, who have any complaints to wu 
cant Trenck, let them appear,, and they ſhall 
rective a ducat per day ſo fog as the eg 
Hon: continues. , 
It will readily be. anviſhel * fat. his 
accuſers would: increaſe, and what kind of 
people they were. The pay of theſe wit- 
neſſes alone amounted to fifteen thouſand 
gorios. I now began to labour in concur- 
rence with d doctor Gerhauer, and the cauſe 
pon took anngher; turn; but ſuch was the 
|. fiate of things, it would have beenineceſfary.. 
to have broken all the members of the 
council of war, as well as counſellor Weber, 
| a man. "of. great power. Thus, unfortu-: 
EE: nately, politics e to regte n the 
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ings ſhould be ſtopped, and he immechidi — 
fet at liberty. Prince Charles, who knew 
the court of Vienna, adviſed me alſo to pe- 
fuade my couſin to comply; but nothing = 
could ſhake his reſolution. F eeling his right | 
and innocence, he demanded trick Juſtice; 
and this made ruin more ſwift. "7 HAS 
I ſoon learned Trenck muſt fall a ſhake | 
fice ;—he was rich—his enemies already had | 
divided among them more than eighty thon- 
Pad florins of his property, which was all 8 
queſtered, and in their hands. They had 
treated him too cruelly, and knew him too 
well, not to dread his vengeance the mo» _— 
ment he fhould recover his freedom. 
1 was moved to the ſoul at his ſufferingg ; = 
and as he vented public threats; at the 3 
proſpeb of approaching victory over his 
enemies, they gained over the court- con- 
feſſor; and, dreading him as they did, pot 
every wily art in practice to inſure his de. 
ſtruction. I therefore, in the fulneſs of 1 my. - 
heart, made him the brotherly parry 
of eſcaping, and, having obtained his liber« 


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queen. I told, him, my, plan, which might 
eaſily have been put in execution, and 
"which he ſeemed perfectly decided. to follow. 
b Some days after, I was ordered to wait on 

 field-marſhal count Konigſeck, governor of 
| Vienna. This reſpectable old gentleman, 
- whoſe memory. L. ſhall ever revere, behaved 
to me like a father and the friend of huma- 
nity, adviſed me to abandon my couſin, who, 
* gave me clearly to underſtand, had be- 
trayed me, by having revealed my propoſed 
plan of eſcape, willing to ſacrifice me to his 


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* Confounded at ihe comardly- action of one 
| for whom I would willingly have facrificed 

my life, and whom I only ſought to deliver, 
| AF reſolved. to leave him to his fate, and 
thought myſelf. exceedingly happy that the 
Worthy. field-marſhal would, after a fatherly 
admonition, ſmother all farther. AHI WUD THF 
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me again to ſee. my co ſin, without letting 


him know 1 knew what had paſſed, and ill 

to render him every ſervice. ; in my power. 
Before 1 proceed, I will here give the 

Pint 5h a portrait of this Trenck. 
He was a man of ſuperior. talcats god 


unbounded ambition; devoted, even fana- | 
tically, to his ſovereign ; his boldneſs ap- 


proached temerity; he was artful of mind, 


wick ked of heart, vindictive and unfeeling. ER 


His, cupidity equalled the utmoſt exceſs of 


avarice, even in his thirty-third year, 1 


which be died. He was too proud to re- 


ceive favours or obligations from any man, 


and was capable of ridding himſelf of his 
beſt friend, if he thought he had any claims 
on his gratitude, or ona 1 get. OY 81 
his fortune 

le knew I bad W 5 very in. 
portant ſervices, ſuppoſed his cauſe. aloe 
won, having bribed the Judges, ' who were. 
to reviſe the ſentence, with thirty een 
florins; which money I received from his 


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"theſe honeſt counſellors. I Ape all h 
Aeerets*;. and nothing more was neceſſary to 
prompt his ſuſpicious and bad heart to ele 
my deſtruction. 5 1 

Scarcely had a fortnight pda alter his 
having firſt betrayed me, before the follow- 
| bog remarkable event happened. 

I left him one evening to return home, 
king under my coat a bag with papers 
and documents relating to the proſecution, 
Which I had been examining for him, and 


ranſeribing. There were at this time about 


gie and twenty officers in Vienna, who had 
laid complaints againſt him, and who con- 
ſidered me as their greateſt enemy, becauſe 
I had laboured earneſtly in his defence. J 


* 3 | *was therefore obliged, on all oecaſions, to 
be upon my guard. A report had been 


propagated through Vienna, that I was ſe⸗ 
-eretly ſent, by the king of Pruſſia, to free 

my couſin from impriſonment; he, how 
ever, conſtantly denied, to the hour of his 
death, his ever having written to me at Ber- 
In: hence alſo it will follow, the letter I re. 


1 ceived: had been * by Jaſchinſky. 
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5 cling the arſenal, I croſſed the count, 9 
and perceived I was cloſely followed by two 
men in grey roquelaures; Who, eee 
upon my heels, held loud and inſolent con- 
verſation concerning the run-away Pruſſan 
Trenck. I found they fought a quarrel, 
2 was a thing of no great difficulty at 
that moment; for a man is never more diſ- 
poſed to duelling than when he has nothing 
to loſe, and is diſcontented with his condi- 
tion. I ſuppoſed they were two of the-ac- 
cuſing officers broken by Trenck, and en- 
deavoured to avoid eng and 8210. the . ag! : 
Place. a | x 
. Scarcely had 1 nk Jon thi cee ane, 
leads thither, before they quickened, their 1 A 
pace. I turned round, and in a moment ret 
ceived * thruſt with a ſword, in the leſt 
_ fide, where I had put my, bag of, papets; 


Which accident alone ſaved my life: NL Xt 
| | ſword. .piereed through the papers, and 

6 flightly grazed | the ſkin. - I inſtantly „ 

3 and the heroes ran. 1 purſued: one of them 


e and fell. I ſeiſed him: the guard 
; "ne 5 be declared he was an officer” * 


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we regiment of Kollowrat, ſhowed. his? uni- 
form, was keleaſed, and I was taken to pri- 
Ton. ' The town<major came the next day, 


and told me I had intentionally ſdoglit 


quarrel with two officers, heutenants Figs 
and K—n. Theſe kind gentlemen did not 


reveal their humane intention of TR me 


to the other world. 
I was alone, could Pran no witneſs : 


5 they were two. I muſt neceſſarily be in 
the wrong, and 1 remained ſix days in pff 
fon. No ſooner was [ releaſed, than theſe 
1 5 good friends ſent to demand ſatisfaction 
dor the faid pretended inſult. The propoſal 


was accepted, and 1 promiſed to be at the 


1 Scotch gate, the place appointed by them, ; 
2 Within an hour. Having heard their names, 
Wi preſently knew them to be two famous 
ſwaggerers, who were daily exerciſing them · 
ſelves in fencing at the arſenal, and where 
they often viſited Trenck. 1 went to my 
cCcobfn ro alk his aſſiſtance, related what had 

| happened,” and, as the conſequences: of this 


. duel” K be very ferious, deſired him o 


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Pteſti, who gave me fifty ducats and a pair 


of piſtols; provided with which! cheerflly 1 | 
. repaired to the field of battle. 
Here 3 found half a dozen officers of the : 4 : 


met me going in all haſte, and, having 1 1 


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give me a hundred ducats, that I "right ON £ 


able ro fly if either of chem ſhould fall. 5 = 
Hitherto I had expended tüy own money 
on his account, and had aſked no reimburſe- 


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. quarrel without conſulting me, you will” | 


c alſo get out of it without my aid!” As T 


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left him, he called me back to tell me, * £7 
will take care and pay your undertaker;”” 


ifo. As Li had 12 acquaintances in _— 


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Vienna, T had no ſecorid, except 175 old Spa =_ 
niſh- invalid captain, named Pereyfs, Who — 


kearned whither, would not leave niet 
Lieutenant K -n Was the firſt w. th with _ 
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I deſired the ſpectators to prevent farther 


S miſchief; for my own part I had nothing 
more to demand. Lieutenant F—g next 
entered the liſts, with threats, which were 


ſoon quieted by a lunge i in the belly. Here- 


. upon lieutenant M—f, ſecond · to the firſt, 


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1 been your man, you Fand have found | 
«2, very different reception.“ My old Spa- 


niard of eighty, proudly and immediately i 


| advanced, with his long whiſkers and totter- 


1 = ing frame, and cried “ Hold Trenck 
has proved himſelf a brave ſellow; and if 


7 any man thinks proper to aſſault him, 
- further, he muſt firſt take avbreathing 
e yyith me.“ E very body laughed at this 
Wl - bravado, from a man who ſcarcely. could : 
l = ſtand, or hold a ſword. 1 replied, 85 Friend, 
W « * am ſafe, unhurt, and want not aid: 1 
14 © ſhould [ be diſabled, you then, if you 
= thick proper, may take my place; but, 


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myſetfamoment; but the hnaghey! — 
raged at the defeat of his friend, would not 
give me time, but furiouſly” attacked men 
and, having wounded: him twice; once in the 
hand, and again in the groin, he wanted % 
_ cloſe, and fink me to the grave with oat | 
Lk; but I difarmed and threw him. 
None of the others had any ado „ 
Bug the conteſt. My three enemies were 1 
ſent bleeding to town; ald as MH aß. 
peared to be mortally woutided, and the) — 
ſuits and Capuchins of Vienna refuſed ine an 
n I fled to the convent at Keltetbetg 
I wrote, from the convent, to colonel 
e! Lopreſti, who came to me. T ta i 
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The blood X neutenant 1 111 Lian A 2. 
Smet ſtate, and his wound, though gt i 
in idſclf dangerous, made kis life ddubtffl. 
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when I went, having firſt requeſfed T* out  ** 
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Uucats, if he could find means to quarrel 
with ime, and rid the world of me. He 
Was deeply in debt, and ſought the aſſiſtance 
of Heutenant K— n; and, had not the papers 
luckily preſerved me, I had undoubtedly 
_ "been diſpatched by his firſt lunge. To clear 
- them{yes, of the infamy of ſuch an act, 
theſe two worthy, gentlemen had pretended 
I bad aſſaulted them in the ſtreets. | 
I could no more reſolve to ſee my ungrate- 
ful and dangerous kinſman, who wiſhed to 
| {have ane, murdered, becauſe I knew all. his 
9 5 6 65 and thought he ſhould be able to 
ain his cauſe without obligation to me, or 
mx affitance. N otwithſtanding all his great 


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time of life, though. his fortune amounted t to 
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ten Trenek, "than general count Lowen- 
walde, his moſt ardent enemy, and pere, 
of the firſt council of: war, by which, he Had: 
been condemned, deſired to ſpeak omen 
promiſed evety ſort of good. fortune and 
protection if I. would diſcover, what means, 
had ſecretly been employed in the reyigow 5 

of the proceſʒʒ and went ſo far as to. LIST, 
| me. four thouſand florins if of would ; ada; pro- 
| ſecution.; againſt my couſins... Here: 4; le: rn, 

the. influence of villains in powery. and the 1 4 
injuſtice of judges. at Vienna. The Fr, 


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$ termined to ſeck my fortune in the (Eaſt, 
0 Indies, | thap continue in:a,;cqynary,; Wee 
* under the beſt of queens, the moſt loyal-of 
i: - ſubjects, and Firſt ,of oldiers,1;might be 
rendered miſerable by intepeſteq, angry, 
and corrupt courtiers. Certain it is, A8 I. . 4 
gow can prove, that Trenck,/though;the © ol 
bitt e my enemies, and whoſe gondhuck- 6+ "i 
towards me merited my whole pr elentment, "ro 
mas. the belt ſoldier. in the Auſtrian, h 1 
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tifdeck mad Kot Mis af Ort his con- 


cempt for Weber and Lowenwaldeziput him 


in che power of choſe 'wretehes, who: were 


tze avowed enemies of etage and patriot- 
1 if and Who ofily can Maititaity cheir au- 
IJ E thiority, - and ſate their thirſt of « gaing by the 
Bie and wicked arts of courts.” Had my 

1 coulgi hired the plunder of the war ameng 


theſe men, he had not fallen the martyr of 


* r tig and died in the Spielberg. 
* His W kulsks were, generally, unprineipled 
g 8 men, of ruined fortunes; and ſo inſufficient 
nere their accufitions, that a uſeful mem- 
der of ſociety ought not, for any or all of 


ther,” ro have ſuffered an hour's impriſon- 


? Wein Being fulhy informed, both of all 


tte circumſtances of the proſecution; and 


title inmoſt ſecrets of his heart; juſtice" re- 


= quites"1 ſhowld"thus publicly Welne dt 
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* | _ though dead was the cauſe of all my. f 
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better of A uſted noo: aponzaw Hs 
1 was reſolved for ever er 19 forlke Views, © 
The friends of Trenck all became diſtruſt” 
of him, becauſe, of his ipgratitude. to, e. 
Prince Charles {till endeavoured to: per ade 
me to a reponcilintioni and gaye mea iter - 
of recommendation to. general Browne whe = 
then commanded the imperial armin ay: 
bur more deſirous of going w Indja,?Elef ©. 
Vienna i in Auguſt, 1748, deſirous, COS 
” obligation to that city or Ars iphabirants, .. 
and, went for Hollagd. ; Meantime the ener 
mies of Trenck found: no. one ws 
their injquirous proceedings, and obtain # 


ſentence, of impriſonment, in che Spielberg, 4 


where he too late repented having betrays 


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moments he ſhowed his hatred towards me 


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by his; will to involve me in migfort 


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N= to enact my part in Europe, and not in 


Ata. At Nurerr 


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Nuffans, commanded by general 'Licuwen, 


3 I | my mother's relation, 
Ft the, Netherlands, and were the pe: 


Eo prevailed on me to viſit him; ar 


o were marching to 


of Eutope: Major Buſchkow, whom had 
k own when Ruffian reſident at Vienna, 


1 me to the general. 1 pleaſed him, and may 
ſay, with truth, he behaved to me like a 
end 40 4 beten Fle adviſe mers enter 
into the Rüſſian ſervice, and gave me à com- 


pet of dtagoons, in the regiment of To- 
3 bolſfeiß, en conditidn I ſhould not leave imm, 
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an adventure happened tome, which E halt! i 
ever remember, as a Warning to myſelf and 
inſert as a memento to others. 2; ff MC 1+ - nM 
The army phyfician, on this day, kept a 
faro bank, for ther entertainment: of He 
gueſts. My ſtock of money conſiſted of rwo - WM 
and twenty ducats. Thirſt of gain, r 
ee example, induced me to venture 
two of theſe, which I immediately:loſty and 
very ſoon, by venturing again e =O 
them, the whole two and twenty. CR 5 "Y 1 Þ 
grined at my folly, returned home: Rn 5 
nothing but a pair of piſtols left, for Which, 
becauſe of their workmanſhip, eren, 
Woyekow had offered me twenty ducati. 
Theſe I took, intending, by their aidjity .. 
attempt to retrieve my tots; e of .. 
guns and piſtols were heard throughout the 1 
town, becauſe of the feſtival; and E in 1 
imitation of the reſt, went to the We 43 

and fired mine. After a few diſcharges, one 
of my piſtols burſt, and endangered wy 
225 own. hand, and- * my; ee 1 


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| fete a momentary deſpondency, ſtronger than 
A. ever. remembered to have experienced 
| tbefore; inſomuch that:L was half induced, 
with the remaining piſtol, to ſhoot myſelf 
E through the head. I however recovered my 
| Adpirtts, aſked my ſervant what money he 
Dad, and received ſrom him three ducats. 
Wich cheſe I repaired, like à deſperate 
gameſter, once more to the faro table, at 
be eenenke, again begin to play, and, w 
= extraordinary was my run of luck, I won 
q A at every venture. Having feeovered mx 
Principal J played en upon my winnings, 
ill at laſt I had abſolutely broken the doe- 
— A new benk was ſet up, and I 
_ von; the greateſt part of this likewiſe; fo 
than rotated Domes about ine hundred 
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Aeg my danger, I had the prudence to 
make a ſolemn reſolution never more to play = 
at any game of chance; to EY T Have. 
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I honeſt; ' knaves; and the ſincere; deceivers 4 
and liars. © Officers, having firſt delt all heir | 
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god fortune was almoſt miraculous; ant 3 
my arp nnd Wee very uncomimen;̃ 
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ſiſter, whom I was very deſirous to ſee: at 
Elbing, therefore, I reſigned the command £ 
0 lieutenant Platen, and, attended by a ſer- . 
vant, rode to the bifhopric of, Ermeland, 
Where I had appointed an lee with 
ebener village. +129 11820 
Here an incident ET piety had 
nearly coſt me my, life. The Pruſiians, | 
* before, had carried off a, peaſant's 
8 from this village, as a recruit, The 
people were all in commotion. I wore lea- 
. and the blue uniform of the 
Ruſſian cavalry. T hey took me for a Pruſ- 
+ Gan, at the door, and ell upon me with 
/, ExEry.; kand- of weapon. . chaſſeur, WhO 
dee ro, de there, and the landlord, 
ehe to mp aſſiſtance; while 1, battling 1 with 
the peaſants, had thrown two of them 
2] was delivered, but not till I had 
15, two. violent bruiſes ;. 


One, on the left ar m, and another which 
broke the bridge of my noſe. The landlord 


adviſed me to eſcape, as falt as poſſible, or 
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murder me; my ſervant; therefore, who had 
retired for defence, with a eee 0 
into the _—_ got _ the horſes, ane 
rode off. — 11932 911 . 
I had my braiſes dreſed at the ne 
my hand and eyes were exceedingly bvelledz : 
but I was obliged: to ride two miles farther, © 
to the town of Reſſel, before I could find att 5 4 | 
able ſurgeon ; and here I ſo far recoyered} in 
a week, that I was able to return to Dantzic- 
My brother viſited me, while at Refſets hut 
my good mother had the: misfortune, as ſhe 


was coming to me, to be throwi out of her | Y 


carriage, by which her arm was broken, 8 
that ſhe and my ſiſter were obliged totes 
turn; arid T never ſaw her more. © % det 


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voy, where another mot remarkable enge 
happened, which I, eng o. han 
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I became-acquaitited with ©iProfian we? 3 6 Y 4 9 


fcer; whoſe name I ſhall: conceal;-out/ of 1 . 
ſpect to his very worthy family: he viſited © 
me daily, and we often rode eue; 
the neighbourhood of Dantzicd. ak 
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_ . anxiety, .< Beware, ſir, of a ſnare laid for 
s you by lieutenant N—— ; he means to 
<5entice;:you -out of tovin, and deliver you 
ch up to the Pruſſians. I aſſced him where 
be learned this: © From the lieutenant's 
£2ſervant,” anſwered he, who is my 
i ſtiend, and * — een mis- 

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i 1 diſcovered the whole affair; and learned it 
BY — the Pruſſian reſident, 
Reimer, and the lieutenant, that the latter 
43 mould entide me into the ſuburb of Lang- 
— fubr, where there was an inn on the Pruſ- 
Hag territories: here eight recruiting under- 
difieers were to wait concealed, and ſeize 
itolthe moment entered the houſe, hurry 
me into a carriage, and drive away for 
Aauenberg in Pomerania. Two under - of- 
1 gberrs were to eſcort me, on horſeback, as 
t ins the :frontiers, and the remainder to 
3 . me from calling for help, | 
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1 farther learned my enemies were only 
to be armed with ſabres; and that they 4 
were to wait behind the door. The rws a 
| officers on horſeback: were to ſecure my ſer 
vant, and prevent him n _— olf and :Y | 4 
raiſing an alarm. 2 
Theſe preparations ks caflphaveibben 
rendered-fruitleſs, by my refuſing to accept 
the propoſal of the lieutenant » but vanity _ 
gave me other advice; and reſentment made 
me deſirous of avenging- n for _ a5 | 

teſtable treachery. 
Lieutenant N came, abou noon, to 
dine with me as uſual; was more penſve 
and ſerious than I had ever obſerved him 
before, and left me, at four in the After 4 bl 
noon, after having made me promiſe” to fide | i 
early next day with him as far as Langfuhr. 5 1 To 
I obſerved my conſent gave him great Ml |: 
pleaſure ; and my heart then pronounced ; BK _ 
ſentence on the traitor. The moment he 
had left me I went to the Ruſſian reſident; = 
M. Scheerer, an honeſt Swiſs,” related the MM 
whole conſpiracy, and aſked -whether® f 1 . 
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2 | told him my plan, which he at firſt oppoſed; 
but, ſeeing me obſtinate, he anſwered, at 


laſt, Do as you pleaſe; I muſt know no- 
«thing of the matter, nor will 1 n 


« ſelf reſponſible.” 


I immediately joined my ſoldiers, ſelefted 


ſu men, and took them, while it was. dark, 
oppoſite the Pruſſian inn, hid them in the 
cbrn, with an order to run to my help, with 
= their firelocks loaded, the firſt diſcharge they 
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: whcir , and only to fire in caſe of re- 


1 provided them with fire- arms, 


b 8 them in the carriage which 
1 brought them to their hiding-place.. ,- 

1 Netwithſtanding all theſe precautions, I 
1 Fall-thought-it neceſſary to prevent ſurpriſe, 


3 | by informing myſelf what were the proceed- 
. ings of my enemies, leſt my intelligence 


E  fhould have been falſe; and I; learned from 
my ſpies that, at four in the morning, the 
Pruſſian reſident, Reimer, had leſt the city 


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pocket piſtols, prepared my Turkiſh! fa TE, 15 IN 4 
and, in gratitude. to the lieutenant's man, 
quromiſed to take him into my ſervice, bing 1 | 
convinced of his honeſty. * bf Vw 
The | lieutenant n Fe : * BY 
br in the morning, expatiated on the fine- 
neſs of the weather, and jocoſely told me I 
ſhould be very kindly received 15 the hand- 
ſome. landlady of Langfuhr. 9 17 es 
I was ſoon ready; we enen and leſt 


the town, attended by our ſervants. Some 4 I RH 


three hundred paces from the inn my worthy _ 
friend propoſed: that we ſhould alight. and 
let our ſervants lead the horſes, that we 
might enjoy the beauty of the morning: * | 
conſented; and, having diſmounted! obs 
ſerved his 1 _ an witer 
pleaſure. r N TRE» el 
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* the inn, and called out, as ſoon as he'faw:. 3 | Vw 
me, © Good morrow, captain! good mor- 
c ro-. . come in, your breakfaſt ig} © ff 
« waiting,” I, ſneering, ſailed, and told: 
him I had not time at preſent. So ſayings) 5 1 


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would abſolutely force me to enter, took 
cM me by the arm, and partly ſtruggled wich 
de — on which, lofing all patience, I ga 
| him a blow, which almoſt knocked him 
1 Te as to en 11 1 meant 
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\ | E 2] _ their door, with clamour, to attack 
me. I fired at the firſt; my Ruſſians ſprang | 
1 dan their hiding place, preſented the ob, | 
auc called et Stay; Pay, yclibunamat :. 
Tkne terror of the poor Pruſſians may etl 
4 J | be gow All began to run. I had 
keen care to make ſure of my lieutenant, 
And was next running to ſeize the reſident, 
820 he had eſcaped out of the back door, 
i . p b the loſs only of his white perriwig. The 
=  Ruffians had taken four priſoners, and I 
= conmanded them to beſtow fifty ſtrokes. 
= upon-cach of them, in the open ſtreet. An 
enſign, named Caſſeburg, having told me 
b name, and that he had been my brother's 
ſtchool- fellow, begged remiſſion, - and ex- 
cuſed himſelf on the neceſſity which he was 
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bis wie; and ſuffered him to 20. 2 den 
drew my ſword, and bade the lieutenant de- 
fend himfelf; but he was ſo” confuſed that, 
after drawing his ſword,” he aſked my par- : 


don, laid the whole blame upon the reſi- 1 ion 


dens and had not the power to put hin- 
ſelf upon his guard. I twice jerked” his - 
| ſword out of his hand; and, at laſt; taking 
the Ruſſian corporal's cane, I exhauſted my 
ſtrength with beating him, without his E 
fering the leaſt reſiſtance. - Such is the 
meeanneſs of detected treachery. * left . 
kneeling, faying to him, “Ge, 'raſeabF'now, 


„and tell your eomrades the manner || 4. M 


2 which: Trenck e b robbers on *the 


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and the attack having happened on N 
territories of Dantzic; t the Pruſſſans were, 
in danger of being ſtoned by the populace. -+ 5 
TI and my Ruſſians marched off victorious, 
proceeded to the harbour, embarked, c 
three or four days after ſer fail for Rigs: Kia 
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papers took any notice of this affair; no 
latisfaction was” required. The Pruſſians, 
no doubt, were 'aſhamed of being defeated 
in an attempt ſo perfidious. 
I fince have learned that F hi no 
5 by the falſe repreſentations of Rei- 
mer, was highly irritated; and what after- 
1 : Jyarts happened proves his anger purſued 
= me through every corner of the earth, till 
1 a. 8 J fell into his power at Dantzic, and 
| fuffered, a * moſt n and 
wesen led. BY 
2 3 The Profen envoy; Gola, Indeed, AY 
=. to count Beſtuchef, concerning 
This Dant: 2 1 : ſkirmiſh, but received 1 
3Þ faction. M/ conduct was juſtifled i 
Ruſſia, 1 having defended myſelt againſt « 
Lace, as a Ruſſian captain ought. 
Some diſpaſſionate readers may blame 
me for not having avoided this rencontre, 
and demanded-perſonal ſatisfaction of lieu- 
tenant N——.. But I have, through. life, 
z e ee than avdided dangers My 
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tak,” , far Mikey fearing, toe as able auge 
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whom 1 found honeſt and faithful, and 1 
whom I corffortably | ſettled in marriage, at FB 
Vienna, in 1753. After my ten years in- bw x 
priſonment, 4 found him poor, and Ma 1 
took him into my ſervice, in which ben 
at Zwerbach, in 1779 10308 Yr 2220 

And now behold me at ſea'on my voyage 
to Riga. I had eaten heartily before A 
went on board: a ſtorm came on: I We 
half the night, to aid the crew, But a 
length became ſea-fick, and went to ne 
down. Scarcely had I cloſed my N 
fore the maſter came with the joyful ie 
as he thought, that we were running for J 9 
the port of Pillau Far from pledfiogs N 1 | 
to me, was dreadful intelligence. I ra, We 5 8 4 { 
deck, ſaw'the harbour right before: mez and 1 
a pilot coming off. The ſea muſt now de 8 
either kept in a ſtorm, or I fall into the hands 
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© captain; however, c, not be appeaſed, 
byt accuſed me before the old and honour- 
- able; marſhal Lacy, then governor. of Riga. 
Ewas obliged to appear, and replied to the 


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„I defined the captain to tack about and . 
the Fn, but he would not liſten o 


| helm,, and* threatened the captain with in- 
kant death if he did not obey. My Ruſ- 
ans began to murmur; they were averſe 


meet my anger, overawed, as as they were, by 
V Fiſtols, and my two fereants, who ſtood 


Half an hour after 8 began '. 


I Abe, and we fortunzrely | arrived, tbe 
nent day, in the harbour of Rigs. The 


% occaſioned the death of a hundred and ſixty | 
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er ing into the hands of f my God than into 
« the hands of my enemies. My danger Was 
fo great, that J forgot the danger of others; 
« helides, fir, I know my comrades Were 
« ſoldiers, and feared death as little as 1 do.” | i 
My anſwer pleaſed the fine gtey- headed bei} 4 4 | {i 
 neral, and He gave me a teconfinendation t wo! FI 
| the chancellor Beſtuchef at Moſcow. 
General Lieuwen had marched By 
'Motavia, for Rüſſia, with the army, and was WM 
then at Riga. 1 went to pay him my 12 1 1 
cpekts; he kindly received me, and rook me 
to one of his ſeats, named Annaburg, b 
tiles" from Riga. Here F remained fene 
days, and he gave me every recommend: 
rion to Moſcow, where the court then was... 
It was intended I ſhould endeavour to ob: | 
tain 4 company in the regiment: of cuiraſ- 
hers, the captains of Which then ranked as 
| majors ; ; and he adviſed me to throw up as 1 
- commiſſion in the Siberian regiment of To- 
bolſki dragoons. Peace be to the' manes 


and the memory of this worthy man! 1 May 


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Rultan ſervice, offering me che ſtrongeſt re- 
commendations to Vienna, and a company in 
his own regiment. My couſin's misfortunes, 
however, had left too deep an impreſfion 
upon my memory, for me to follow his ad- 
vice. The Indies would then have been 5 
preferred by me to Auſtria. 


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Bernes invited me to dine with bim 
company with his boſom friend, Ut: 
Hyndford, the Engliſh” ambaſſador.” How. 

great was the pleaſure I that day received 
This eminent ſtateſman had known me at * 9 
Berlin, and was preſent when Freder io. 8” 7 3 * 
honoured: me, with ſaying, C' un muthdot 

de ma jruneſſt. He- was well Fed in men, 
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gallantry among the ladies, are the means 
by which foreigners muſt make their way 
e in chis country. Avail yourſelf of them, 
and leave the reſt to us.. This leſſon laſt- 
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« judge from the exterior only, and do 
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recommendation! at court:;was was deciſixe; the * 
nations they repreſented were- in alliance 
with Ruſſia, and the confidence Beſtuchef 
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I vas now introduced into all — > 

not as a foreigner who came CURR em. 
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b dinner, bor a ball, e muſt ſend notice to the 
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à liſt of the gueſts allowed to be invited. 
Feaction governed every thing; and wherever 
1 IE was, no friend of Woronzow-durſt 
MW - appcar. I was the intimate of the Auſtrian 
= ant ng ambaſfadors; conſequently, 
A 5 Was careſſed and eſteemed in all companies. 
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| cabinet of the. chancellorg: avhere I arm in 
company with colonel Oettinger, who Was 
then the head architect of Ruſſia; and ine. 
the perſpective view of the new palace, 
which the chancellor intended to build at 
Moſcow, by which I acquired univerſal 
honour. I had gained more acquaintance 
in, and knowledge of, Ruſſia in one month, 
than others wanting my means, have done g 
in twelve. . 1 i 
As I was one day relating my progreſs. t to =, 
lord Hyndford, he, like a friend, grown 
grey in courts, kindly, took the parental I 4 
trouble to adviſe me. Fi rom him 1 ppi 
a perfect knowledge of Ruſſia; a; he Was a- 
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courts, their families, party cabals, the 
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their government, the plans of the, great b 
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friend of F rederic, he was. intimately, a- 9 
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of the Briton, Wit Ma Ks We and 
the principles, by which he combined the 
paſt, che preſent, and the future, were ſo 
_ clear, that I, his ſcholar, by adhering to them, 
W Ken enabled to foretell all the moſt 
remarkable revolutions that have happened 
during the ſpace of ſix and thirty years, in 
. Futope. By theſe I knew, when any mi- 
| milter Was diſgraced, who ſhould be his ſuc- 
1 ceſſor. 1 daily paſſed ſome hours improving 
= by his Kind converſation; and to him am I 
= des for moſt of that knowledge of the 
bord! happen to poſſeſs. #24100 CNT wh 
He took various opportunities of reationing 
] = me againſt the effects of an ardent, ſanguine 
WE temper, and my hatred of arbitrary power; 
ed me to beware of the determined per- 
3 35 fecution of - Frederic, of his irreconcileable 
* "anger, "his intrigues and influence! in the various 
Courts of Europe, which he would certainly 
exert to prevent my promotion, leſt I ſhould 
| impede his own projects; and lamented my 


future ſufferings, which he phinly forefaw. 


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of their own worth, of che rights : of x Man- 
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t pling. upon the ſuffering: ſubject, is 
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0 eee taught me to Loma ETA 1 
to value, freedom, to deſpiſe tyrants, 9 3 
endure the worſt of miſeries, to emulate true 
greatneſs of mind, to deſpiſe danger,, ande 
honour only thoſe whoſe elevation: gf. foul 2 
had taught them ee to ng ſe, ien 4 
* deſpotiſm. 1 73 

Bernes was a bleibt but with, .the 1 
Paine of an Italian, more cauth os 1 
than Hyndford, yet equally honeſt, and wor- — I 
thy. His friendſhip for me was unbounded; = 
and the time paſſed in their companꝝ was 
eſteemed; by me, moſt preciqus-/, The . 
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edge and ſcientific acquirements, ain 1 
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were inexhauſtible; and 1 acquired more 
reali information at Moſcow than at Berlin, 
under the tuition: of: la n e 
and A | 

Scarcely had T been fix weeks in this city 
POET Thad an adventure which I ſhall here 
relate ; for, myſelf excepted, all the perſons 
concerned in it are now dead. Intrigues 
properly belong to novels. T his book is 
intended for a more ſerious purpoſe, and 
they are, therefore, here uſually ſuppreſſed. 
t cannot be ſuppoſed I was a woman-hater. 
Moſt of the good or bad fortune I experienc- 
ed originated in love.” I was not, by na- 
ture, inconſtant, and was incapable of deceit 


even in amours. In the very ardour of youth 


1 always ſhunned mere ſenſual pleaſures. 


= 1 loved for more exalted reaſons, and for 

ſuch fought to be loved again. Love and 
| $ Friendſhip were, with me, always united; 
ud theſe I was capable of inciting, main - 
1 taining, and deſerving. The moft difficult 
'K olf acceſs, the nobleſt and the faireſt; were 
cer my choice; and my veneration for 
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the faith of woman ſupported under mis- 
fortunes; in the company of woman enjoyed 
the few hours of delight my life of ſorrows 
has experienced. Woman, beautiful and 


well inſtructed, even now, lightens the bur- 


then of age, the world's tediouſneſs, and its 


woes; and, when theſe are ended, I would : 


rather wiſh my eyes might be cloſed by fair 
and virgin hands, than, When expirinm 


fixed on a hypocritical prieſt. 2 1 

My adventures with women Wa ampix 1 il 
furniſh. a romance: but enough of his. rY * 
ſhould: not relate the os were it 10 " 


neceſſary. to my ſtory “. 


Dining one public day with Fre Hyd = 
ford, J was ſeated beſide a charming-young i 
lady of one of the beſt families in Ruſſia, 8 Av 
who bad been PROTO in mari though q = 


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been pleaſed to ſay concerning love; or, father, as hi 7 — 
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only ſeventeen, to an old invalid miner 

 Hereyes bon told me ſhe thought me pre- 
ſerable to ther intended bridegroom. © I un- 
derſtood them, lamented her hard fate, and 
was ſurpriſed to hear her exclaim, © Oh 
Heavens] that it were poſſible you could 

deliver me from my misfortune ! I would 


| K Son engage to do whatever you: would direct.“ 


The impreſſion ſuch an appeal muſt make 
on a man of four and twenty, of a tempe- 
rament like mine, may eaſily be ſuppoſed. | 
| The lady was raviſhingly beautiful: her foul 
Sas -candour itſelf; and her rank that of A4 


| 1 71 princeſs; but the court commands En 


5 ready been given in favour of the marriage; 
and Riglit, with all ies inſeparable dangers, 
was the only expedient. A public table was 
I no place for long explanations. Our hearts 
were already one. I requeſted an interview, 

and the next day was appointed, the place 
the Trotzer garden, where I paſſed three 
Fapturots hours in her company ; ; e to * 
I her woman, who. was * Georgi n. TS 


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ks country, Was too great. The ant 
was not to remove to Peterſburg till the next 
ſpring, and her marriage was fixed for the 
firſt of Auguſt. T he misfortune was. not to 
be remedied, and nothing was left. us but 
patience perforce. Wie could, only reſolye 


to fly from Pererſburg; when- there, che Co 


ſooneſt poſſible, and to take refuge in ſome 
corner of the earth, where we might remain 
unknown of all. The maniagen benen 
was celebrated with pomp; though 4, in 
| deſpite of forms, Was the true huſband of the 
princeſs. - Such was the ſtate. of the aſh 


impoſed upon her, that, to deſcribe i Mig 


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not give diſguſt, were impoſſible. .. 2 
The princeſs gave me her F and 
ſeveral thouſand ' rubles, Which the had; re 
ceived as à nuptial preſent, chat 4 Wet 
purchaſe every thing neceſſary for flight: * My 
evil deſtiny, however, had otherwiſe derep- 
mined, _ I was: playing at ombre with her, 


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Beſtuchef, when ſhe complained of a viglens | 
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on the fixth day, when the ſmall· pox began 


to appear. During her dereliction ſhe diſ- 
covered our love, and inceſſantly called on 


me to deliyer her from her tyrant. Thus, 


in the flower of her age, periſhed one of the 
moſt lovely women 1 ever knew and with 
ber fled all I held toſt dear. | 
Y All my plans were now to be new ar- 
ranged. Lord Hyndford alone was in the 
- ſecrer, for L had no ſecrets for him: he 
trengthened me in my iſt reſolution, and 
owned that he himſelf, for ſuch a miſtreſs, 
might perhaps have been weak enough to 
have acted as I had done. Almoſt as much 
moved as myſelf, he: ſympathiſed with me 


ike a friend ; and his advice deterred me 
. | from ending my miſeries; and deſcending 
With her, whom I had loved and loft, to the 
1 grave. This was the ſevereſt; trial I had 
IH "yer felt. Our affection was mounds, | 


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and fuch only as noble hearts can en 
She being gone, the whole world became a 
deſert. There 18 not a man on earth Wb 
lite affords more various turns of fam than 

mine. Swiftly raiſed. to the higheſt Pin- 
nacle of hope, as ſuddenly was I 'Ealt head- 
long down 5 and ſo remarkable were 3 
revolutions, - that he Who has read my 
hiſtory will at laſt find it difficult to day 
whether he envies or pities me moſt. Ad 
Det cheſe were, in reality, but Preparat oy t to 
the evils that hovered over my devoted 
head. Had not the remembrance of. paſt 
Joys- ſoothed and ſupported me under my 
ſufferings, 1 certainly ſhould not have en- 
dured the ten years torture of, the Mages” 
burg dungeon, with a fortitude that wignt 
have been worthy even of Socrates.” 4 51 . 


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filter through my veins as N. write . Reſt, 
gentle maiden, noble and lovely as thou SE 
For thee oughr Heaven fo. haves, 2 


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2 foul ſo pure, to nan. youth? ad 


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| in Moſcow-; yet her corpulent overgrown 

| Huſband had not underftanding enough to 
ſuppoſe there was any meaning in her thap- 

| _ during her delirium.” n 

Her wifes to me amounted, in value, to 
= Dit ſeven thouſand ducats. Lord Hynd- 
ord and count Bernes both adjudged them 
| legally mine; and well am 1 aſſured her 
ed had bequeathed me much more. 7 » 
To this event ſucceeded another, by 
1 oth my fortune was greatly influenced. 
4 The counteſs of Beſtuchef was then the | 
AY _ * Moſt - arable and witty woman at court. 
Ter hüſband, cunning, ſelfiſh, but ſhallow, 
Had the name of miniſter, while ſhe, in re- 
"ty, governed with a genius at once daring 
* and comprehenſive. The too pliant Eliza- 
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who continved faichful to her huſband; 19 
which ſuppoſition probably originated in 

ber art and education, ſne being a German 
born; for I aſterward found her virtue was 
only pride, and a knowledge of the national 
character. The Ruſſian lover rules deſpotic 
over his miſtreſs; tequires money, ſubmiſ- 
ſion, and, ſhovid he meet oppoſition, threat- 
ens her with blows and the —— of fher | 
ſecret. | 271.243 —- 
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Beiher appear at court, nor in the beſt : 1 
company, without the introduction of 
Beſtuchef. I and Sievers, gentlemen ofthe 
chamber, were at that time the only Ger- 
mans Who; had free egreſs in all houſes of _ 
faſhion : my being protected by the Engl Tr 
and (Auſtrian ambaſſadors, gave me very 
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of the merchant Boettger. Under Eliza- 
beth Beſtuchef roſe to the ſummit of rank 
and power; and the widow Boettger be- 
came the firſt lady in the empire. When 1 
knew her, ſhe was eight and thirty, eonſe- 
quently no beauty, though a woman highly 
endowed in mind and manners, of keen dif- 
Cernment, diſliking the Ruſſians, protecting 
the Pruflians, and at whoſe averſion. all 
” trembled. TS 
Her carriage towards oh Rufians was, 
hk muſt be in her fituation, lofty, cau- 
Ai and ironical, rather than kind, To 


me ſhe-ſhowed the utmoſt eſteem: on-all-oc- 


| caſions, welcomed me to her table, and often 


admitted me to drink coffee in company 
with Herſelf alone and colonel Oettinger. 


Ihe counteſs never failed giving me to un- 
E derſtand ſhe had perceived my love for the 

| ” princeſs N- and, though I- conſtantly 
denied the fact, The related circumſtances 
which ſhe could have known, as I thought, 
only from my miſtreſs herſelf : my filence 
pleaſed her; for the Ruſſians, when a lady 
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has a pills for them, never fail to vaunt 
of their good fortune. She wiſhed to pet- 
ſuade me ſhe had obſerved us in company, 
had read the language of our eyes, and had 
long penetrated our fecret. I Was ignorant 
at that time that ſne then, and had long be- 
fore, entertained the maid of my miſtreſs. * 6 
4 N in her pay. Wg 
About a week e ths 4 of the pfin- 
_- the counteſs invited me to take coffee 
with her in her chamber; lamented my 
- loſs, and the violence of that paſſion which 
had deprived me of all my cuſtomary viva- 
city, and altered my very appearance. Se 
ſeemed. ſo intereſted in my behalf, and ex- a _—_ 
preſſed ſo many wiſhes, and fo. ardent, to | = 
deter my fate, that 1 could no longer "1 . 
doubt. Another opportunity ſoon happened, *M 
| which confirmed theſe. my ſuſpicions: her = 
mouth confeſſed her ſentiments. Diſcretion, _ 
ſecreſy, and fidelity, were the Jaws ſhe im. 
poſed ;: and never did I experience a more 
ardent paſſion from woman. Such was her 
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Caution was the thing moſt neceſſary. 
She contrived, however, to make opportu- 
nity. The chancellor valued, confided in 
me, and employed me in his cabinet; ſo that 


I remained whole days in the houſe. My 


captainſhip of cavalry was now no longer 
thought of: I was deſtined to political em- 
ployment. My firſt was to be gentleman 
of the chamber, which in Ruſſia is an office 


of importance; and the proſpect of futurity 


became to me moſt reſplendent. Lord 


1 Hyndford, ever the repoſitory of my ſecrets, 
Counſelled me, formed plans for my conduct, 
3 kejoiced at my ſucceſs, and refuſed to be · re- 
imburſed the expence he had been at, though 
ke 299! my Circumſtances were proſperous. 


The degree of credit I enjoyed ſoon was 


3 85 : forced: foreign miniſters began to pay their 
. court to me; Goltz, the Pruſſian miniſter, 
made every effort to win me, but found me 
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informed than myſelf of miniſterial and a- 1 
mily factions at this court. = —_— 
My miſtreſs, a year after my aqui 
with her, fell into her enemies' power, and, 
with her huſband, was delivered over to the 
executioner. Chancellor Beſtuchef, in the 
year 1756,/ was forced to confeſſion, by the 
knout. Apraxin, miniſter of war, had a 
ſimilar fate. The wife of his brother, then 
envoy in Poland, was, by the treachery of a JV 
Certain beitenant Berger, with three 6thers Ml 
of the firſt ladies of the court, knouted, _—— 
branded, and had their tongues cut out. 
This happened in the year 1741, when Eli- 
zabeth aſcended the throne. _Her huſband, | 1 
however, faithfully ſerved; 1 knew him, as 
Ruſſian envoy, at Vienna, in #7 91%. This 
may indeed be called the love gf our 
cqcuntry, and thus does it happen to the b. 
men of the ſtate: what then can a . 
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AN man, in ſo ſhort a ſpace of time, had 
. . greater opportunities than I 'to: diſcover the 
ſecrets of ſtate; eſpecially when guided by 
Hyndford and Bernes, under the reign of 
 - a well-meaning, but ſhort-ſighted empreſs, 
- Whoſe firſt miniſter was a weak man, direct- 
ed by the will of an able and ambitious 
wife; and which wife loyed me, a ſtranger, 
an acquaintance only of a few months, ſo 
paſſionately, that to this paſſion ſhe would 
have facrificed every other object. She 
might, in fact, be conſidered as empreſs of 
Ruſſia, diſpoſing of peace or war; and, had 
I been more prudent or leſs ſincere, I might, 
in ſuch a tuation, have amaſſed treaſures, 
and depoſited them in full ſecurity. Her 
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rrubles in one year, to diſcharge her ſon's 
debts, yet might I have ſaved a ftill larger 


; 7 ſum; but half of the bits ſhe obliged me 


of the es; ; and the baron's long pods; 11 
| , the advanced age in which he wrote, might both, or 
either, lead to miſtake. The! baron's chronology, - 
even of bimſelf, is, throughout, very inaccurate.” T. 


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far was J from ſelfiſn, and ſo negligent of 
wealth, that, by ſupplying the wants of 


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fered want myſelf. 


This my ſplendid ſucceſs in Ruſſia dif. 
_ pleaſed the great Frederic, whoſe perſecu- 
tion every-where attended me, and who 6 


ſuppoſed his intereſt injured by my ſucceks 


in Ruſſia. The incident J am going to re- 


late was, at the time it happened, well 
known to, and cauſed much agitation 


among, all the foreign ambaſſadors. . 
Lord Hyndford defired 1 would malte 


him a fair copy of a plan of Cra tade,. "Bo. 
which he furniſhed the materials, wath 
additional drawings of the various e 
in the harbour, and their names. There 
was neither danger nor ſuſpicion: attending | 
this; the plan of Cronſtadt being no fecret, 


but publicly ſold in the ſhops of Peterſburg. YI q 


England was likewiſe» then in the  dlafelt | 
alliance with Ruſſia. Hyndford ſhowed. 
the drawing to Funk, the Saxon envoys bis 
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plan ſigned: with my name; andd after Funk 
| ad been ſome days employed copying it, 
the Pruſſian miniſter, Go. 2 Who lived in 
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then endeavoured to fincite his jealbuſy, and 
told him my private interviews with his 
Wife, eſpecially in the palace garden, were 
publicly ſpoken of. This he had leartied . 
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Pander, Sn, was a party in the intrigue; 
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ſtadt from his pocket, and added, £* Your. = 
tc excellency is nouriſhing a ſerpent in your 
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to the flame, by inſinuating I. ſhould 
not be ſo powerfully protected by Bernes, 
the Auſtrian ambaſſador; were it not to fa- 
vour the views of his own gourt. Beſtuchef 
mentioned proſecution and the knout; 
Goltz replied, my friends were too power- 
ful, my pardon would be procured, and the 
eeiuil this way increaſed. They therefore de- 
dermined to have me ſecretly ſecured, and 
=o privately conveyed: to Siberia. | 
Thus, while I anſulpeltingly dreamed. of 
nothing but happineſs, the gathering ſtorm 
threatened deſtruction ; which only was avert- 
ed by accident, or God's good providence. 
Sooltz had ſcarcely. left the place, tri- 
3 n when the,” chancellor entered, 
wich bitterneſs and rancour in his heart, into 
His ladly's apartment, reproached her with 
my conduct, and, while ſhe endeavoured to 
dſooth him, related all that had paſſed; Her 
penetration was much deeper than her 
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“Lord Seen till you * 8 
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Secretary . ts ch 800 ids 
wh, not long ſince, was Ruſſian enyoy at 
Ratiſbon), was ſent with this note. He 
found me, after dinner, at the Engliſn am- 
baſſador's, and called me aſide. I I read the 
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Lord Hyndford went, ede ten in 0 
F morning, to vilit the chancellor, that he 
might obtain ſome intelligence; who imme- 
diately reproached him for having granted 
an aſylutm to a traitor. What has [this 
te traitor done? ſaid Hyndford: | © Paith- 
Ns Tefily copied a plan of Cronſtadt, from 
my cabinet drawings,” anſwered the chan- 
4  Ccellor,” which he has ſold, to the Pruflian | 
* © miniſter, for two hundred ducats.“ 
Hyndford was aſtoniſhed; he 3 me. 
well, and alſo knew that he had then in 
money and Jewels, more than eight thou- 
_ and'ducars/ of mine in his Own hands; nor 
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ae on money, or of the ſources whence I 
could obtain it, when” 1 pleaſed. -& Flas 
poor excellency actually ſcen this draww- 
1 * "7 e ing of Trenck's ? -e, Ves; I have been 
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ce ſome myſtery; be ſo kind as to acfire | I. | 
«« Goltz will come, and bring his plan of 
« Cronſtadt, Trenck is at my. houſe, ſhall _ 
* forthcoming inſtantly, and I N nat 
protect hiq if he proves guilty.” )“ 

The chancellor wrote to Goltz, — 9 50 
via; as he was, had, no doubt, taken care 
to be informed that had TY of the 
police had miſſed his Ife therefore  Þ 
ſent an excuſe, as did 5 not. appear... I, 
the mean time J entered. Hyndford then i 
addreſſed me, with the openneſs of an. God 5 1 
lſhman, and aſked— Are you. a: traitor, 


ce Trenck? If fo, you do not merit my 1 
protection, but you. ſtand. here a ſtate; prix 5 1 | 
« ſoner. Have you fold a plan of Cronſtad 15 + .- 


* to M. Goltz!“ My anſwer may, ealily _ 1 
be ſuppoſed. Hyndford rehearſed; Wart 
the chancellor bad told him, I was defired - 
to leave the room, and Funk was ſent Re 

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e Sir, where js that plan of Cronſtadt Which 
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eden Hyndford,” el at home? Speak 


ee upon your honour.” “ No, my lord, I 
c have lent it for a few ay, to M. Goltz, 
4 that he may take a copy.” | 


Hyndford immediately then ſaw the 
e affair, told the chancellor the hiſtory 
of this plan, which belonged to him, and 
which he had lent to Funk, and requeſted 


2 truſty perſon might be ſent with him, to 


make proper ſearch. Beſtuchef named his 


rt ſecretary, and to him were added Funk 


the Dutch ey Schwart, who hap- 


e then to enter. All went together to 


- the houſe of Goltz. Funk here demanded 
WER plan of Cronſtadt; Goltz gave it him, 


"he 


and Funk returned it to lord Hyndford. 
The ſecretary and Hyndford both then 
ed he would produce the plan of Cron- 
ſtadt, which he had bought of Trenck for 
two hundred ducats. His confuſion now 
Was great, and Hyndford firmly inſiſted this 
in ſhould be torth-coming, to vindicate 


the honour of Trenck, whom he held to 
be an honeſt man. On this, Col an- 
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Trenck in Ruſſia, and I have guy fulfilled | 
. © the duty a miniſten , 9515 
Hyndford ſpit on the Fav and l 
more than I now chooſe to repeat; after 
which the four gentlemen returned to the. | 
en en and I, was again called. 7 
body complimented me, related what. had 
paſſed, and the chancellor promiſed 1 ſhould 
be recom penſed; ſtrictly, however, forbid- 
ding me to take any revenge on the Pruſ- 
ſian ambaſſador, 1 having ſworn, In the firſt 
tranſports of anger, to puniſh. him wherever 
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The hnocelive e me, © kent me. to 
Jas with. him, and endeayoured to aſſuage 
my boiling paſſions. The counteſs affected 


indifference, and aſked me if ſuch⸗ the 
actions characteriſed the Pruſſian nation. 85 


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deliverance from the haſty and unjuſt con- 
| demnation of the chancellor, although my 
= protectreſs was one of the company. I re- 
Z ceived a preſent of two thouſand rubles, 
Fe next day, from the chancellor, with 
orders to thank the empreſs for this mark 
. of her bounty, and accept it as a fign of 
her efpecial favour, I paid thefe my thanks 
ſome days after. The money 1 diſregarded; 
but the amiable empreſs, by her enchanting 
| benevolence, made me forget the paſt. 
The ſtory became public, and Goltz ap- 
" peared neither in company nor at court. 
= The manner in which the countels;" perſon- 
= ally, reproached him, I ſhall, out of reſpect, 
pass over. Bernes, the crafty Piedmonteſe, 
aſſured me of tevenge, without my trou- 
bling myſelf in the matter, and what 
| | happened: after I know not : Goltz appeared 
but little in company, fell ill when I had 
2 left Ruſffia, and died, toon after, of a m 
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or al the calamities which afterward fel 
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upon mee. I ſhould have become one „ 
the firſt men in Ruſſia; the misfortunes that. 
befel Beſtuchef, and his family, ſome years 
| afterward, might have been averted; 2:3 Y 
mould never have returned to Vienna, 7 : 4 ; 

ity ſo fatal to the name of Trenck.; by the | 
mediation of the Ruſſian court, I ſhould. 7 f 
have recovered my great Sclavonian eſtate 
my days of perſecution, at Vienna, would 
have. been paſſed in peace and pleaſure ;- 
nor ſhould I have entered the abap "i 
of Magdeburg. 4 


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Hos ligle did the Great Fus how. : 
my. beart! Without having offended, he 
bad rendered me miſetable, had warden, 0 
ed me to impriſonment; at Glatz, on mere. | 
fuſpicign, and, dying ihenges : naked | and 1 
deſtitute, had confiſcated my paternal inhex 
ritance, Not contented with infliting * 
way wales. be awe: not ſuffer; me, 


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| Principal and firſt cauſe of his future ſufferings, They, 
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1 Few are the CY who, in ſo ſhorta 
time, being expelled their native country 
with diferace, by their own efforts, merits, 
and talents, have obtained honour and fa- 
vour ſo great, acquired ſuch powerful 
friends, or been entruſted, with confidence 
nee unlimited, in tranſactions o import- 
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Laſterward promoted thewiews of the Au- 
ſtrian envoy, who knew well to cheriſh the 
flame that had been kindled, and turm it to his 
- own uſe. Till this moment I. certainly never 
eln the leaſt enmity, either to my country 
of King, nor did I ever ſuffer myſelf, on any 
—otcaſton, té be- made eee of Nit 
diſadvantage. 3 
No Toner" Was 1 Shed m more iti. 
1 ee with cabinet ſecrets, . r diſeb- | 
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pointments of the Ruſſian army, in the ſe- 


ven-years' war“. The counteſs, Who was 


obliged to act with greater caution, fore ſax 


the conſequences of the varigus intrigues 


| in which her huſband: was engaged: her | 


love for me naturally drew, hen tom her 


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— could 1 then have fore told! Such 


| was the perverſeneſs of my deſtiny, that, 
where I ſhould moſt have been fought for, 


and beſt known, there was I leaſt valued. 
No man, in my youth, would have be- 


Heved I ſhould live to my ſixtieth year, un- 
._ titled and obſcure. In Berlin, Peterſburg, 


London, and Paris, have I been eſteemed 
by the greateſt ſtateſmen, and now am re- 
cdoced to the invalid lift. Flow ſtrange. are 
the caprices of fortune! 1 ought never to 
have leſt Ruſſia; this was wy ben error 
which 1 til} live to repent. * 

1 have never been accuſtomed to Heep 
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- though, through life, I have lowed time 
rede du nd receiving company, 1 
” have ſtill had foſficient for ſtudy and im- 
- Provement. Hyndford was my inſtruor 
in politics; Boerhaave, then Phyſician to 
 Xhe! court, and my boſom friend, my tutor 
in phyſie and literary ſobjects. Women 
formed me for court intrigues; . 


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Tbe chancellor had greatly changed hs 

carriage toward me ſince the incident of the 
plan. He obſerved my looks and words, 

ſhowed: he was diſtruſtful, and deſirous I 

revenge. His lady, as well as myſelf, re 
marked this, and new meaſures became ne- 7. 

ceſſary. I was obliged to act an artful. 
but, at the ſame time, 2 TOP dangerous 
part. 1,52 a2 SA I | 
_ My mantis; 1 850 Pans died in his 2 Gy 
Spielberg, October 4, 1749, and left ae 2 3 1 
' his heir, on condition I ſhould: only ene | 
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to enter on this inheritance. I would hear 
nothing of Vienna; the abominable treat A 
ment of my cpuſin terrified: me. * 
| knew che origin of his Proſecution, the gert. 
vices he had rendered his country, and had 
been an eye-witneſs of the injuſtice © by 1 | 
which he was repaid.  - Bernes, bowener; 8 3 
repreſented: chat che property leſt e as i 
worth much above a million that ihe em- = 
prefs would fupport me in the purſuit oft 8 zl 
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& Vignnd; that a million of certain pro- 
perty, in Hungary, was much ſuperior: to 
the higheſt expectations in Ruſſia, where] 
myſelſ had [beheld ſo many changesbof for- 
tune, and the. effects of family cabals. Ruf- 
/ fa he painted as dangerous, Vienna as: ſe- 
en and promiſed me himſelf effectual aſ- 
8 as his embaſffy would end within 
the year. Were F. once rich, I might: re- 
ide in what Country 1 pleaſed; nor could 
the perſecutions of Frederie, any-where, 
1 purſue mei ſo ineffectually as in Auſtria. 
| Snares would be laid: for me everywhere 
ele su I. had experienced in Ruſſia. 
3 che,, , faid : he, * Would have been the 
2. vences, had not the counteſs arn- 
% youof' the. :impending danger? You, 


= 2 like many. another honeſt and innocent 


man would have been ſent ! to Siberia. 
i © Yeur/wnocenceimuſt have remained un- 
d atteſted, and yourſelf, in the univerſal | 


| opinion, 4 villain andi a traitor. “ 
Huyndford fpoke to me in the Fg rows, 


FS aſſured me of his eternal 3 044 
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foul I not find. happineſs at Vienna. He 
ſpoke of ſlavery as a Briton ought 40: ſpeaks 
reminded me of the fate of Munich and h 
_ Oſterman, painted the court ſuch as I knew. 

it to be, and aſked what were my expecta» 
tions, even were I fortunate enough to be 
come general, or winiſterb : in ſuch cum 
e 5:09:05; . F enlis eig ng 
Theſe FAYE) os at kngth; PW 
me; but having plenty of money, I thought 
Proper to take Stockholm, Copenhagen, 
and Holland, in my way 5 and Bemes Was, 
in the mean time, to prepare; me a favgur- 
able reception at Vienna, He deſired, N FE 
ſo, I would give him authority to: Py, 0 
ſion of the eſtates to which I was. heir” My. 
miſtreſs ſtrongly endeavoured to detain: meß 
but yielded, at length, to the force of realen. 


I tore myſelf away, and promiſed, on mx 
honour, to return as ſoon as I had arranged. = 


my affairs at Vienna. She, mage the. 85 8 


poſition of inveſting me with ſome. foreign 3 9 | 
 embaſly, by which.I might render the mk i 
| 8 efieQual ſervices 0 the, court of Vienna. In : 4 W 


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(228 * 
d me with her portrait, and a Muffe 


box ſer with diamonds: the firſt of cheſe, 
three years afterward, was torn from my 


boſom by the officers in my firſt dungeon at 
ee ; as I ſhall hereafter relate. The 
chancellor embraced me, at parting, with 


| bete. Apraxin wept, and claſped me 


in his arms, propheſying, the ſame time, I 


4 2 mould never be ſo happy as in Ruſſia. 1 
EF myſelf foreboded misfortune, and quired 


| f  Ruffia-with regret; but ſtill followed the nd 
4 an Rar 


From Moſcow I travelled to Peter Wurz 
= where I found a letter, at the houſe of baron 
IS 3 the banker, frem the counteſs, which 


1 8 F rent my very heart, and almoſt determined 


* to return. She endeavoured to terrify 
me from proeeeding to Vienna, yet incloſed 
u bill for four thouſand rubles, to and 1 ime of 
| my Journey, were 1 GAY bent to 
„ my back on fortune. 


My effects, in money and ch 4 Weng 


3 ; a7 'to about - thirty-ſix - thoufand Horins; * 
* | Hherefore returned the draught, iprrentec! 
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fuel had been ſo many cutting and 


renew my friendſhip wich ſuch a man, bag 


5 the honovr, as an officer of the body- ts. 
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which they might become needful. After 
remaining a few days at Peterſburg, 1 


journeyed, by land, to Stoticholmm ; taking 
with me letters of robometitndating wan, | 
the foreign envoys. "Is CE RD” 1 . 


1 forgot to mention that Funk 4 was incon- 


are; his imprudenct | 
had nearly plunged me into miſery, and de- 
ſtroyed all my Hopes in Ruſſia. "Twenty-two sd E 
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years after this 1 tet the worthy man unte 
more in Dreſden. - He, there, :conſideref 
himſclf as the cauſe of all the evils inflicted 

on me, and affured me the revital of ] 


bitter reproaches to his ſoul. Our recapituli- 
tion of former times rave us endleſs pleaſure; 
and it was the fweeteſt of joys to moet und 


ede weathered ſo many ſtorms of fate. 

At Stockholm J wanted for no recomtrem 
ballen: the queen, fifter to the great Pre- 
deric, had known me at Berhn, whewl had 


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- whole hiſtory to her without reſerve.” She, 
from political motives, adviſed- me not to 
make any ſtay in Stockholm; and to me 


continued, till death, an ever gracious lady. 
I proceeded: to Copenhagen, where I had 
buſineſs to tranſact for M. Chaiſe, the Daniſh 


envoy at Moſcow ; from whom; alſo, I had 


letters of recommendation. Here 1 had 
the pleaſure of meeting my old friend, lieu: 


E tenant Bach, who had aided: me in my 
e gſcape from my impriſonment at Glatz. 
He was poor, and in debt; and I procured 


him protection, by relating the noble man- 


ner in which he had behaved. I alſo pre- 
fſented him with five hundred ducats, by 

the aid of which he puſhed his fortune. He 
rote to me, in the year 17956, a letter of 
ſincereſt thanks; and died a colonel of huſ- 
5 e in the Daniſh, ſervice, 1 in 1779. U ves 


I remained in | Copenhagen but, a Ga 


be, and then failed, in a Dutch ſhip, 


rom Elſineur for A Amſterdam.  Scarcely 


had We put to fea before a ſtorm aroſe, by = 
_ which we loſt a maſt and our bowſprit, had 85 Ng 
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make the open ſea, and here I found a very 
pleaſant amuſement, by going daily in the | 
dhip's boat from rock to rock, attended bỹ 
awo of! my ſervants, to ſhgot wild ducks, = 
and: catch. .ſhell-fiſh ; - whence I every.even= i 
ing returned wich proviſtons, and ſheepy 9 
milk, bought of te Wann or 
the ſhip's crew. 2427 Lenin 7 4 4 
There was a dearth among theſe poor - 
people. Our veſſel: was laden wick one 9 
ſome: of. this I purchaſed, 19; the ameunt vi 2 1 
ſome hundreds of Dutch florins, andidiſtize * "I 1 
buted wherever IL Went. I allo, gave anger... A 
their miniſters a hundred florins tor his poor 
congiegation, who: was bimſelf f in Want of 1 
bread, and > whoſe annual ſtipend did not 5 1 
amount to one hundred and fifty florias. 1 | 
Here, in the ſweet pleaſure: of FRI - 
. good, I left behind me much of that one Wy 
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—— have left the place in poverty. A 
thouſand blefliings followed me; and the 
ſtorm- driven Trenck was long remembered 
neun Gottenburg? 

In this worthy employment, de 1 
had. nearly loft my life. Returning from 
carrying corn, the wind-rofe, and drove the 
boat to fea. I not underſtanding. the ma- 
nagement of the helm, and the ifervant auk- 
wardly handling the ſailgy che boat, in itack- 
ing, was overſet. Th Henefit of dearning 
to ſwim I again experienced; and my ifaith- 
ful ſervant, who had gained the rock, aided 
me when almoſt ſpent. The good people, 
who had ſeen the thallop overſet, came off 
in their boats to my aſſiſtance. An honeſt 


| Catmuc; whom I had brought from Ruſſia, 


and another of my ſervants, perifned. I ſaw 


1 e Hiſt fink after I had reached the mere. 


The kind Swedes brought-me on board 
and alo--righted and returned with che 
 Hallop:”: For ſome days 1 was fea-ſhok: We e 
i -unchor, and failed. for the "Lew 
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drove us to the port of Bahus, in Norway. 
into which we ran, without farther damage. : 
In ſome few days we again fer fail, with a 
fair wind, and at * reached Amſterb 
dam. 

Here 1 th no long ſtay; for this tay WER 
my arrival, an extraordinary adventure haps 
pened, in which I was engaged OM * 
wp own raſhnefs. | ot | 

I was a peda . 
\vebidging to the withle- fiſhery, were exers” 43 
ciſing themſelves in darting their harpvons, ? WM 
. moſt of whom were drunk. One-ofathem, 
Herman Ropaar: by name, a herd "among _ 
theſe people for his dexterity wich his fick: 
uſer; came vp; and patſt aue f ks 
coarſe jokes upon my Turkith/'fabre, ard i 
"F' offered to fillip me on the noſe.” I pythed - 
nim from me, and the fellow threw down © 
his cap, drew his ſnickaſee, challenge an, 4M 
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ing round to the by-ſtander, aſked them to 


lend me a ſnickaſee: & No, no,“ ſaid the 
challenger, ce draw your great knife from 
«© your ſide, and, long as it is, I will lay you 
„A dozen ducats you get à gaſn in the 
« cheek.” 1 drew: he confidently. adyanced 
th his ſaickaſee, and, at the firſt ſtroke of 

hand that held it, 


be. i” to the ground, and the blood 


ed-in my face. 
Ino expected the people ibs du, 
itably, tear me to pieces; but my fear was 
| aged into aſtoniſhment at hearing a uni- 
| ho applauding the vanquiſher of 
"tbe ed Herman Rogaar, Who, ſo 
lately feared: for his ſtrength and dexterity, 
became the object of their ridicule. A Jew 
ſpectator conducted me out of the crowd, 


and the people. clamorouſiy followed 5 me 7 


to my inn. This, kind of duel, by which I 


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dred Herman Rogaars:: This ſtory may in- 


always impelled me into the paths of per- 
plexity, and 1 ſeldom ſaxy "Shan till it 1 
. inevitable; 209 „ "6 


wy had beeri recommended to lord Holderneſs 1 a 
the Engliſn ambaſſador, by lord Hyndford; 


grand penſionary Fagel, by Schwart; and ; 4 


prince of Orange himſelf. I *could-nat}/ 
therefore but he every where received wick 
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ftru@ and warn others. He that is quarrel- 4 
ſome ſhall never want an enemy. My te- 
merity often engaged me in diſputes which, 

by timely compliance and calmneſs, might 
eaſily have been avoided; but my evil genius 


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I left Amſterdam for a NE aka I 


to baron Reiſchach, by Bernes; to the i 


from the chancellor I had a letter to the 3 


mendations, and the knowledge: [ poſſeſſeck 


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From count Bernes, affuring me that hepven 
Wag at Vienna, and including a citation 
from the high court, requiring me to give 
in my claim of inheritance, Bernes farther 


informed me the Auſtrian court had aſſured 


him I ſhould meet with all juſtice and pro- 
tection, and adviſed me to haſten my journey, 
as the executorſhip of the eſtates of Treack 


vas conducted but little to my advantage. 


This advice I took, procecded to e 


und from that moment all my happineſs had 


an end. I became bewildered in law. ſuits, 


an the arts of wicked men, and all poſſible 
© calamitics aſſaulted me at oboe; the tecital 


of: which would, itſelf, afford ſu ect matter Z 


One M. Schenck 8 yarquaiance 
at 3 I met with him at m hotel, 
where he intreated I would take him (o 


| Nuremberg wh, he was to proceed o 


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box, with my miſtreſs's picture, and my 
purſe, containing about eighty ducats, ſtolen 
from my-bed-fide, and Schenck become in- 
viſible; Little affected by the: loſs of mo- 
ney, at any Mme, I yet was grieyed for my; 
muff box. The raſcal, however, had eſaap- 
ed; and it wes fortunate chat the remainder | 
of my ready money, with wy bills of ere | 
change, were ſafely locked up. n 1 


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I now purſued my journey abort com- _ 
| pany, und arrived at Vienna. I cannot _ 
exactly recollect in what month, but I had 
been abſent about two years; and che 
reader will allow that it was barely Poſſible 
for any man, in ſo ſhort a time, to have en, 
perienced more various changes of Fo 
though many ſmaller incidents have been ö 
ſuppreſſed. The places, where my pledged . | 
fidelity required diſcretion, will be/-cafily 
ſuppoſed, as likewiſe will the concealment 
of court intrigues and artifices, the 8 = 
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* 0 parental 1 and duty vanquiſni the 
inclination of the author; and this duty, 


this affection, have made me particularly 
eautious in relating what happened to me 
at Vienna, that I might hereby ſerve 
"them more effectually, than by _ indulging 


Ts pride of the. writer, or che micunte 
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Since accounts fa various) . 


Ny Ry difhonourable: to the name of Trenck, 


have been circulated in Vienna, concerning 
facts which happened thirty: ſeven years 


ago, I will here give a ſhort; abſtract of 
them, and ſuch as may be verified by the 
records of the courts. I pledge my honour 
doi the truth of the ſtatement, and, were I 


fo allowed, would prove it to the cbnvic- 


tion of any unprejudiced court of juſtice ; 


but this I cannot hope, as princes are much 
more diſpoſed to beſtow unmerited favours 


Franeis Baton Prenck died in the Spiel 


| 8 4. 1749. It has been erro- 


beheved, in Waun that his eſtates 


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were 


were confiſcated by the ſentence which con- 


committed no offence againſt the ſtate, was 


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poſal of his propertiꝰ¾t. 4124 Þ5-36 


his advocate, doctor Berger, and by him 


berg, to permit the entrance of witneſſes, an 3 
all things neceſſary to make a legal will, 1 
tit by no means follows that he petitioned her 
for permiſſion to make this will. The caſe 
I is too clear to admit of doubt. The royal _ 
. _commands were given, that he ſhould en- 1 


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demned him to the Spielberg. He had 


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accufed of none, much leſs convifted— 
The court's ſentence was, that the admi- bl 
niſtration of -his eſtate ſhould be. committed = 
to counſellor Kempf and baron Peyacze- | 
witz, who, were ſelected by himſelf, and 
the accounts of his ſtewards and farmers of 
were to be ſent him yearly. He continued, 
till his death, to have the free and entire e dif 


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petitioned the empreſs ſhe would iſſue the 
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joy all freedom of making» his will. 5 > Very . J 4 
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— Convent, which was equal to 1 but 
23 bis he refuſed to accept. 
NDeitcher was his ability to make a yy 
ln. The advocate was only to 
| requeſt che queen's permiſſion to ſupply 
ſeome formalities, which had been neglect- 
ce, when he purchaſed the lordſhips of Ve- 
|  lika and Nuſtar, which petition. was like 
| >> wiſe granted. The royal mandate ſtill exiſts, 
Fo which commiſſioned the perſons therein 
named as truſtees to the eſtate and effects 
of Trentk, and this mandate runs thus: 
Let the laſt will of Trenck be duly exe- 
* cuted ; let diſpatch be uſed, aud the 
heir protected in all his rights. Con- 
fiſcation, therefore, had never been thought 
= of, nor his 9 to make a will _ 
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| 1 „ 1 how 1 1 hind 8 
. of this valuable - inheritance, While I 
| have been obliged to pay above ſixty thou- 
.MFand-florins to defray legacies he had: left; 
uad when this narrative is read, it will no. 
longer be affirmed, at Vienna, that, by the 
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venty⸗-ſix thobſandfcrinsj or the lordſtip of 
Zwerbach from Trenck er 1 * been 
to my proofs. L * we 2 

The father of baron Treacke 1 
the year 1743, governor of Leitſchau in- 
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This will Was FIR to 48 W ad 
cording to form, at Vienna, after Ming: A 
been autlienticated in the: mùſt legal mau! 


nd — * a *. Y ih. > 7 7 bin 
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ner in Hungary. The-gount! called Hof: 
kriegfrath, at Vienna, negle&ed-;re provider” 3 

a cutator, for the ſecurity of the next heit: = 

yet this could hat annul any rightwok, ſuckel- — 

ſion. Wben Frenck ſiſcceeded his father! 

he entered no proteſt -tathis| bis ſathgrs /, IM 

will; therefore, dying thut, Chiklren, in 

the year 1749, my claim was indiſputable. 1 

L WAS heir, adi c made m Will: ; .and, even | f 1 

in caſe of confilcation, my utle Vhs RAM 

; oor: ſtill remained validen by Ibo yoo? ws 

; „ v4 renek knew this burtoayvellt. A e, 
1 ae be 10% reh ted, was my e 3 
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: — even — my life. 1 will, there; 
1 d to ſhow the real i intent of this 
4 1 8 teſtament. | 

_ © Determined no longer to live in confine- 
ment, or to aſk forgiveneſs, by which, it is 
well known, he might have obtained his free- 
dom, having loft all hopes of reimburſing 
his loſſes, his avarice-was reduced to deſpair. 
His defire of fame was unbounded; and 
this could r no way now be gratified but by 
having hirmſelf canoniſed for a ſaint, after 
pending his life in committing all the ra- 
vages of a pandour? Hence originated the 
Vr 

le knew I was the legal claimant to his 
father's eſtates. + His father had b ought, 
with the family money, remitted from Pruſ- 
ia, the lordſhips of Preſtowacz and Pleter- 
nitz, in Sclavonia; and he himſelf, during 
His ſather's life, and with his father's money, 
had purchaſed the lordſhip of Pakratz, for 
forty thouſand florins; this muſt therefore 
deſcend alſo to me, he having no more 
9 chis your me 1. he had the 


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remainder of his paternal inheritance. The 
property he himſelf had gained was con- 
ſigned to adminiſtrators; but a hundred 9 
thouſand florins had been expended in law- 
ſuits, and ſuxty-three ſuits continued actually 5 
pending againſt him in court; the legacies | | 


he bequeathed amounted. to eighty thouſand 

florins. Theſe, he ſaw could not be paid, 1 

ſhould I claim nothing more than the pater- 1 

nal inheritance; he therefore, to render me: * J ! 

unfortunate after his death, craftily named, = 

me his univerſal heir, without mentioning, his = 

| father s will, but endeavoured, by his mylte- 2 20 
rious death, and the following conditions, * 2 

enforce the execution of his own will. RY: 

_ Firſt, I was to become a catholic.” - 2K +" 


| Secondly, I was to ſerve GP the _ of T 1 
Auſtria ; and, | - : 


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N deed was his intention; for, but a Thor -.... 
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His death, believed in Vienna to 1 mi- 


1 eulen, happened after the following man- 


ner; and by this be induced many weak 
people, who really believed bin a ſaint, o 
ſurther his views. a 5 * 

Thtee days before his death, while” in 


Pea health, he deſired the f governor of the 
| Spielberg would fend for his confeflor, for 


that St. Francis had revealed to him he 
ſhould be removed into life everlaſting on 
his birth, day at twelve o'clock.” The ca- 
puchin was ſent for, bat the prediction 


5 - "A STE Fr VE 


The day, however, after the ceparture 


* of tus confe ſſor, he ſaid, © Praiſe be to 
« God ! my end approaches; ; my confefſor 
. is dead, and has appeared to me. 
Strange as it may ſeem, it was actually 


found to be true that the prieſt was dead. 


= Hen now had all the officers cf the gartifon 
= ef Brünn agembled, tonſured his head like 5 
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publicly confeſſed himſelf in a ſermon. o 


an hour's length, exhorted them all to ho- 
lineſs, acted the part of a moſt exemplary 
penitent, embraced all preſent, ſpoke with 
a ſmile of inſignificance of all earthly pot- 


ſeſfions, took his leave, knelt down to pray. | 
ers, ſlepr calmly, roſe, prayed ; again, and 


about eleven in the forenoon, October 4th, 


taking his watch in his hand. ſaid, 
* Thanks be to my God! my "laſt hour 


20 approaches.“ All laughed at ſuch a farce 
from, a man of ſuch a charakter; yet they 
remarked that the left ide of his, tac grep 
pale. He then leaned bis am on the table, 
prayed, and remained motionſeß, with his 


eyes. cloſed. The clock ſtruck twelve | 1 
figns 8 of life. © or motion could be diſcovered; x: 
they ſpoks 3 = him, : and found he e was really, 


dead. — | 
The word mircle v was > echoed” 7 
the whole country, and the rranſimigration. 


of the pandour Trenck, from earth to hes... 4% 
ven, by St. F rancis, proclaimed. The clue, 


to this labyrinth of miracles, kng 1 0 
| me, is truly as follows: ; 


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"we poſſeſſed the ſecret of what 1 10 calletl 


8 de aqua toffana, and had determined on 
death. His confeſſor had been entruſted 
with all his ſecrets, and with promiſſory 


notes, which be wiſhed to invalidate. I 


am perfeRtly certain that he had returned a 


Promiſſory note of a great prince, given 
for two hundred thouſand florins, which 
has never been brought to account. The 
confe ſſor, therefore, was to be provided 
for, that Trenck might not be betrayed, 
and a doſe of poiſon was given him” before 
he ſet off for Vienna: his death was the 
conſequence. -He took fimilar means' with 
himſelf, and thus he knew the hour of his 
exit: finding he could not become the firſt 


on earth, he wiſhed to de adored as a foins : 


in heaven. He knew ke ſhould work mi- 
racles when dead, becauſe he ordered a 
chapel to be builr, willed a perpetual maſs, 


” and bequeathed cn bo ng res . thou- 
c and florins. £ 
Ihhus died this wolf extizordinary man, 
in the thirty - fourth year of his age, to whom f 


n had + ar none c of her gifts; ; who. E 


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had been the ſcourge of Bavaria; the « terror 
of France; and who had, with his ſuppoſed 
contemptible pandours, taken above fix 
thouſand Pruſſian priſ6ners. He lived a 

tyrant and enemy of men, and died a ſanc- 


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ay 


nified impoſtor. 1 
Such was the ſtate of e as willed 
15 Trenek, when I came to Vienna, in 
1750, where I arrived with money and 
jewels to the amount of are. ets thouſand 
——— 5; PE A 
- Inſtead of "din * he ae Trenck 
had acquired, I expended a hundred and 
twenty thouſand florins of my own. money 
including what devolved to me from my 
uncle, his father, in the proſecution of his 
ſuits, Trenck had paid two hundred'dueats 
to the tribunal of Vienna, in the year 1743. 
to procure its very reprehenſible ſilence con- 
| > N e, a curator, to which I was ſacrificed; 
Ky new judges of this court refuſed tu 
8 aber, the error of their predeceſſors: 
Bauch are I. of courts s of Joſtice 
in Vienna. | 
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received more kindly than I was by the 
empreſs-queen. - She ſpoke of my deceaſed 
couſin with much emotion and eſteem, 
Promiſed me all grace and favour, and in- 
formed me of the particular recommencla- 
tions ſhe had received on my behalf, from 
count Bernes. Finding ſixty- three cauſes 
hang over my head, in conſequence of the 
inheritance: of T'renck, to obtain juſtice in 
any one of which, at Vienna; would have 
employed the whole dife of an honeſt man, 
I determined to [renounce this reer. 
and claim only under the wil. and 8 815 
heir of my uncle. | 
„With this view 3 a1 ard bet 
dec a copy of that will, wichc which J pet: 
ſonally appeared, and declareq to the court 


char I renounced the inherirange of Francis 
23> Trenck, would undertake none of his ſuits, 


nor he reſponſible for his legacies, and re- 
- quired only his father's eſtates, according 
| to. the; legal will, Which produced; that 
18 to ſay, the three Jordſhips- of Pakyatz, 


. Preſtowacz, and Pleternitz, without. cha. 
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more more joltor incontrovertible than this claith. 


What was my aſtoniſhment, to be told, iy 
open court, that her majeſty had declated 
I. mut either wholly pefform the articles f 
the wil of Frenck, or be excluded thie ef- 
tire inheritance, and have nothing further 


0 hope. What could be done? F ventured - 


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to remonſtrate, but tlie will of the court was 
determined and abſolote; F miſt scon a 


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In this extremity ty L bnbed a Prieft; Re 
gave me a bogged atte tation, That 1 W 
4 abjuted the accurfed hereſy of Luth 


& aniſtn.“ N religion, however," re. 
mained what / it lad ever Been „Genet 5 
: Bernes, about this time, returned Fon "7 


embaſſy, and I related tb him theYatnent- 


azũe ſtate in which I found mytaffalfs HS 
: ſpoke to the empreſs in my behalf, And tht 


ptomiſedeevery DG, He AIP. 


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3 be ſpe dy; * would then take the 
management of my affairs upon himſelf, 

and enſure; my good fortune in Auſtria. 
Bernes loved me as his ſon, and I had rea- 
ſon to hope, from his aſſurance, I ſhould be 
largely remembered in his will; which was 
the more probable, as he had neither child 
nor relations. He parted from me, like a 
father, with tears in his eyes; but he had 
ſcarcely been abſent ſix weeks before the 
news arrived of his death, which, if report 
may be credited, was effected by poiſon, 

. of fortune, thus were my ſupporters ſnatched 

hom: me, at the very moment they became \ 

3 The, | can _ 3 lkewiſe, deprived 

| „ cy; death- of. my friend and ,7 rotector, 

fnield-marſhal Konigſeck, governor of Vi- 

enna, when he had determined to intereſt 

himſelf 1 in my behalf. I have been be- 
| boved by the greateſt men Auſtria has pro- 
duced; but, unfortunately, have been per- 
ſecuted by the chicanery of pettifoggers, 
. ee and ves who have de- 

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prived me of the favour of my empreſs, 


guiltleſs as I was of crime or nen and 5 


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left my old age in poverty. Tet] 
My ills were increaſed, doe a new ntribate 


Babes: after the departure of Bernes, the 
Pruſſian miniſter taking me aſide, in the 


houſe of the Palatine envoys: M. Becker, 


propoſed my return to Berlin, aflured:me - 


the king had forgotten all that was paſty 
was convinced of I innocence, that my 
good. fortune would Mhere be certain, and 
he pledged his honour to recover the inhe 


ritance of Trenck. I anſwered, Abe 1 


came too late; I had ſuffered! injuſtice tua 


would truſt no prince on earth, whoſe will 
might annihilate all the rights of men. e, 


good faith to the king had been to ill u 
paid; my talents might gain me bread! i in 
any part of the world; and I would nat again | 


ſubject myſelf to the 2 of unmerited 
impriſonment. ae (nents; 


His te ene were ee but: Udy + : 1 
eſfectval: 1 My dear Trenck,“ aid he., p21 | 
* God is wy. Judge: that my . 
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be honeſt; I Will pledge myſelf that my fo- 
r vereiga will enfure your fortune : you 
e do not know Vienna, vou will loſe all 
. by the ſuits in Which you are involved, 
* and-you:wilt be perſecuted,” becauſe” you 
81 8 carry a roſaty. e“ 
Hot often have Fidel 1 did not 
thenÞrevarn to Berlin! 1 ſhould have eſcap- 
elladen years” impriſonment; ſtiould have 
Tecovered the eſtates of Trenck; ſhould 
hot have waſtell the prime of life in the li- 
kig nion of ſuitsg anch the writing of memo- 
rials; and ſhould have certainly been ranked 
among the firſto men in my native country. 
Viennn was no place for a man Who could 
Hor fawn and flatter; yet here was I deſtine 
to remain eſix and thirtys ytars, wore 
urded, unemployed, and; through youth 

nud) age, ö on the Hift of invalid | 
15 513 11 Nas 
8 1 . ka + att of che 
'Pruſfian envoy, all my hopes in Vienne 
were ruined ; for Frederic, by his xeſidents 


7 . -emiſfaries, knew how to effect whatever he 


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that the Trenck, Who would no longer f 


ſerve, or confide in him, ſhould, at leaſt; 
find no opportunity of ſerving againſt him: 
I ſoon: became painted to the empreſs as 
an arch heretic, who never would be fairch- 


ful to the houſe of Auſtria, and only en- 


deavoured to obtain the * inheritance of 
Trenck, that he might devote himſelf to 
Pruſſia. This I ſhall hereafter prove, and 


_ diſplay a ſcene that ſhall be the diſgrace of . 


many, by whom the empreſs was induced 
to harbour unjuſt ſuſpicions of an able and 
honeſt man. I here ſtand erect and confi- 
dent before the world, publiſh the truths 


and take everlaſting ſhame to myſelf, If 


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any man on earth can prove me guilty of = 


one treacherous thought. I owe no thanks g 
for ſo far from having received favours, Þ 


a. 4 ee ee 5 | 1 1 r i 3 | 
have ſix and thirty years remained unable 


to obtain juſtice, though 1 have all the 
while been deſirous of ſhedding my blaod- 
in defence of the monarchy where I have 


thus been treated. Till the year 1746, 'Þ 


was: equally zealous and faichfuf to Priffin;* 
33 eſtates rs though Ma 9 


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were liable to recovery; in Hungary, on 
the contraty, the ſentence of confiſcation 
is irrevocable. This is a remarkable proof 
in favour of my net nog my children's 
claims. ; 

Surely no nds will be offended ar 
theſe digreſſions: my mind is agitated, my 
feelings rouſed, remembering that my age 
and grey hairs deprive me of the ſweet hope 
4 of, at length, vanquiſhing oppoſition, either 
by patience, or forcing juſtice, by eminent | 
ſervices, or noble efforts. 6 

This my hiſtory will never reach a mon- 
arch's eye, conſequently no monarch, by 

_ perceiving, will be ind uced to protect truth. 

It may, indeed, be criticiſed by literati; it 
Will certainly be decried by my perſecut- 
| ors, who, through life, have, been my falſe 
gaccuſers, and will probably, therefore, be 
prohibited by the prieſts —All Germany, 
however, will read, and poſterity, perhaps, 
may pity, ſhould my book eſcape. the mis- 
fortune of being claſſed among, improbable 
© romances; to which it is the more liable, 

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and Maria Thereſa, for manifeſt reaſons, 
have never ſo 6 wpch as e che name 


cum reſervatione juris mei; not as ſimply 1 j 
expences attending upon any one of theſe 


from the whole eſtate of Trenck, 3600 flo- 


Chancery. How. did I labour in ſtating = 
and tranſcribing proofs. for the court! The 
money I poſſeſſed ſoon vaniſhed. My 
Pruſſian relations ſupported me, and the 
counteſs Beſtuchef ſent me the fouf hou- F 
ſand rubles I had refufed at Peterſburg," 1 4 
had alſo remittances, from my faithful mi=' WM 


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claiming under the will 'of Francis T renck. 1 5 
I. was obliged to take upon myſelf the ma.. 
nagement of the ſixty-three ſuits; and the 


are well known to thoſe acquainted with 
Vienna. My fituation may be imagined, nn 
when I inform the reader I only received, 


rins, in three years; which were ſcarcely 
ſufficient to defray the expences of new 
year's gifts to the ſolicitors and maſters in 


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obliged to- borrow money, ät the ufurious 
rate of ſixty:per cent. Bewildered as I was, 
among lawyers and knaves, my ambition 
ſtill prompted me to proceed, and all things 
are poſſible to labour and perſeverance ; 
but my property was expended, and, at 
lengceh, J could only obtain that the con- 
teſted eſtates ſhould be made a „dei com- 
3 4 vii um, or put under truſt, whereby, though 
they were protected from being the further 
prey of others, I did not inherit them as 
mine. In this purſuit was my prime of life 
waſted, which might have been profitably 


2h and konourably- ſpent: "BY 5 ell NI 


In three years, however, I. brought: my 
fixry: three ſuits. to a kind of concluſion ; 
| the /proknbilities were; this could not have 
been elfocted in fiſty! Hxcluftve of my aſſi- 
4 duity, the means I: took "muff not be told; 
it is ſufficient that I hereflearnt what judges 
were, and thus am e o defenbe dhe 
to others. 7 51} n 305 | Lion 2193116 
For a few ducats: the Pre ſident's 3 k 
uſed to admit me into a cloſer}? Where 1 

3 could ſee every e as perſectiy s had 


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-{ 88 3. 
my ſelf been of the council. This often was 
uſeful, and taught me to prevent evil; and 
often was I ſcarcely able to reſi parſing 
in upon this court. 
Their appointed hour af meeting was 
nine in the morning, but they ſeldom; affem- :| i 
bled before eleven. The - preſident then © = 
told his beads, and muttered his prayers. > 
Some one got up and harangued, while the 
remainder, in pairs, amuſed, themſelves with 
talking inſtead of liſtening ; after which the 
news of the day became the common topic. 
of converſation, and the council broke up, 
the court being firſt adjourned. ſome three 
weeks, without coming to any determina- 
tion.— This was called Judicium delegatum in 
cauſis Trenctianis; and when, at laſt, they 
came to a concluſion : the ſentence was ſuch | 
"af I ſhall ever ſhudder at and abhor. 
The real eſtates of Trenck conſiſted. in I 
4 the. great Sclavonian manors, called. the 013 I 
's, "lordſhips of Pakratz, Preſtowacz, and Ple-. oh 
dernitz, which he had inhexited from ww: 
; Th father, and where the family property, to- 
e with Vel and AN uſtak, Which he 
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imſelf as: the annual income of 
*theſe was 60,000 florins, and they contained 
«more than two hundred villages and ham- 
lets. The laws of Hungary require, 
iſt, That thoſe who purchaſe eſtates 
ſhall obrain the ue cena prin con- 
Tet: 

2d, That the ſeller ſhall poſſeſ, and 
make over the right of property, together 
Y - with that of Ne Fa or en ; 
A and, 
Zaly, That the purchaſer that be a na- 
tive 105 or have 3 his naturaliſa- 


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In defzult of al, or any of theſe, the fiſ⸗ 
cus, on the death of the purchaſer, tak es 
poſſeſſion, repaying the ſumma emptitia, or 
| Purchaſe- money, together with what can 
be ſhown to have been laid out in improve- 
ments, or the ſumma inſcriptitia, the ſum at 
Mech! it ſtands rated in the fiſcal regiſter. 

Without form, or notice, the Hungarian 
"fiſcal preſident. count Graffalkowitz, took 
poſſeſſion. of all the T renck eſtates on his 
deceaſe, in the name of the fiſcus. | 3 F 


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prize was i not ſo much becauſe of te 
eſtates themſelves, as the perſonal property 
upon them. Trenck had ſent loads of mer- 
chandize to his eſtates, of linen, ingots of 
gold, and ſilver, from Bavaria, Alfatia, and - 
Sileſia, He had a vaſt ſtore-houle of arms, 
and of ſaddles; ; alſo the great ſilver fervice 
of the emperor Charles VII. which he had 
brought from Munich, with the ſervice of 
plate of the king of Pruffia ; and the per- 
' ſonal property on theſe eſtates was affirmed - 
conſiderably to exceed. in P age NAS 
themſelves. NR. : FA 
I was, not long ſince, informed, by one 
of the firſt generals, whoſe honour is un- 
doubted, that ſeveral waggons were laden 
with theſe rich effects, and ſent to Mihalefae. 5 
His teſtimony was indubitable; he Enes = 
the two pandours who were the confidants of | 
Trenck, and the keepers of his treaſures 3 
and theſe, during the general plunder; each 
ſelzed a bag of pearls, and fled to Turkey, 
where they became wealthy merchants. | 
His rich ſtuds of horſes were taken; and 
the very cows driven off the farms, His 


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© Hand of arms conſiſted of. more than three 


thouſand rare pieces, Trenck had affirmed 
he had ſent linen to the value of fifty thou- 
ſand florins, 1 in cheſts, from Dannhauſen and 
| Gerldorf, in the county of Glatz, to his 
eſtates: the pillage was general, and when 
orders came to ſend all the property of 
T renck, and deliver it to his univerſal heir, 


nothing remained that any perſon would 


accept. I have myſelf ſeen, in a certain 


| Hungarian nobleman' $ houſe, ſome valuable 


arms, which 1 poſitively knew I had been 


| robbed of; and I bought at Eſſeck ſome 


ſilver plates, on which were the arms of 


Ptuſſia, that had been ſold by counſellor 
D- n, who had. been empowered to take 
„ 15 poſſeſſion of the ſe eſtates, and had thus. ren- 


dered himſelf rich. Of this 1 procured an 


; atteſtation, and proved the theſt: I com- 


plained aloud at Vienna, but received an 


- order, from the court, to be ſilent, under 


Pain of diſpleaſure, and alſo to g0 no more 


into Sclavonia. The Principal reaſon, of 


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my loſs of the landed property in H nge, 55 
es wy having c dared! to make i naught con-" 
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ceming the perſonal, not one Soines f 


which was ever brought to account. 1 


then proved my right to the family eltates, 
left by my uncle, beyond all diſpute, and 


alſo of thoſe purchaſe by my ccuſin. The 


commiſſioners appointed to inquire” into 
theſe rights, een confirmed them; ot, 
after they had been thus eſtabliſhed, I re- 
ceived the following order from the court, 
in the hand of the emprefs herſelf: 6 The 
1 preſident, count Graſfalkowitz, takes it 
0e upon bis conſcience chat klie Sclavonian 
12 eſtates do not deſcend to Trenck, in na- 


« jira; he muſt, therefore, receive” the 5 ol 


* ſumma empiitia et inſcript? tia, together with 


ce the money he can thow to Lig been ex- 2 
« pended in improvernents.” IO LUC, 2} 
And herewith ended my Stata a? | 

my hopes. F had facrificed my property, | 

laboured through Gxry<three, inferior fuits} 

and Toft this great cauſe without a trial, 11 

could have remained ſatisfied with the 'lofs "I 

ele berſonal property: the booty of a 


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| robbery ; but the acquirements of my an- 


ceſtors, my birth-right by deſcent, of theſe 
I could nor be deprived without exceſſive 
cruelty. Oh patience! patience! 


Yet ſhall my children never become the | 
footmen nor grooms of 


thoſe who have 


robbed them -of their 1 inhe ſtance; and to 


them I bequeath my rights in all their pow- 
er: nor ſhall any man prevent my crying 
4 aloud, ſo long as juſtice ſhall not be done. 


The preſident, it is true, did not immedi- 


| ant poſſeſs himſelf of the eſtates, but he 
took good care his friends ſhould have them 
at ſuch rates, that the ſale. of them did not 


bring the fiſcal treaſury 1 $0,000 dollars, 


While I, in real and perſonal property, loſt a 
million and a half; nay, probably, a ſum 
equal to this i in perſonal property alone. . 


The ſumma inſcriptitia et emptitia, for all 


r theſe great eſtates, . only amounted to 
249,000 florins, and this was to be paid by 


the; chamber ; but the preſident thought pro- 


per to deduct 10, 00, on pretence the 
l cattle had been driven off the eſlate f 
3 a and further, 36,000 Part under ? 


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( 263 ) 
the ſhameful pretence that Trenck, to re- 
cruit his pandours, had drained the eſtates. 
of 3600 vaſſals, who had never returned; 
the eſtates, therefore, muſt make them good, 
at the rate of thirty florins per head, which 
would have amounted to 108, ooo: bor, 
with much difficulty, this ſum was reduced, 

as above ſtated, to 36, oo0 florins; each 
vaſlal reckoned at ten florins per head. Thus 
was I obliged, from the property of my fa- 
mily, to pay for 3600 men, who had glori- 
ouſly died in war, in defence of the conteſted. 
rights of the. great Maria Thereſa ; who, 
had raiſed ſo many millions of contributions. 
for her in the countries of her enemies; Who, 
bvord in hand, had ſtormed and taken ſo 
many towns, and diſperſed, or taken pri- 
ſoners, ſo many thouſands. of her foes: 


Would this be believed by liteming na- 
tions? I _ 7 EL 3 


All e ate for. legacies, bes, 


5 . formalities, there remained to me 63 O0 
florins, with which I purchaſed the lordſhip, r, 


of Zwerbach; and I was obliged to pay 


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when the: fums enumerated. which I ex- 
pended on the ſuits of Trenck, received 
from my friends at Berlin and Peterſburg, 
it will be found that I cannot, at leaſt, have 
been a gainer by having been made the uni- 
verſal heir of the immenſely rich Trenck. 
With regret I write theſe truths, in ſupport 
of my chitdren's claims, that they may nor, 
in my grave, reproach me for having ne- 
glected the duty of a father. EY 
I Will here add a few particulars, which 
may afford the reader matter for meditation, 
cCauſe him to commiſerate my fate, and give 
picture of the manner in which the proſe- 
> eution was carried on againſt Frenck. 
One Sehygrai, a filly kind of begga ly ba- 
IP ei Who was treated as a buffoon, was 
imvited, in the year 1743, to dine with ba- 
ron Pejaczewitz, when Trenck happened 
do be preſent. The converſation happened 
cd turn on a kind of brandy made in this 
country; and Trenck joculatly ſaid, he an- 
Hually diſtilled this ſort of brandy, from 
coy-dung, to the valucl of thirty thouſagds . * 
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miſed to teach him. Pejacze witz told him 
he. could give. him thirty, thouſand. Joad, of 

dung. 0 But where ſhall 1 ger. the wood ? Fog 


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ſaid Schygrai. « ] will give you thirty 


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Ty thouſand; Klafters,”. anſwered Trenck. : 


The credulous baron, thinking himſelf very. 
fortunate; deſired, written promiſes, which 
they gave him; and that of Trenck, ran 
thus: I ber eby permit and empower ba- 
ron Schyg rai to fell, gratis, in the foreſt, | 
0 of Tſcherra Horra, thirty; thouſand Fa 
< ben Ken Witness my hand, „ 
8 5 Trenck. I 
ron. brought this. note, and made. applet. 
tion to the court. His attorney was: the 


noted, Boch, and de ccm deereod b: 
| eſtates of Trenck ſhould, pay at the rate of 2 5 : 4 
one florin thirty Kreutzers per klafter, or 1 
forty- five [thouſand florins, with- all coſts; =: £2 RH 
| and an order was given to the TO -— 


to pay the money. COTS 
Juſt at this time L arrived. at View, 


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vocate of Trenck, told me the affair would 
5 admit of r no delay. I haſtened to the em- 
| preſs, and obtained an order to delay pay- 
. ment. An enquiry was inſtituted, and this 
4 foreſt of Ticherra Horra was found to be 


ſituated in Turkey. The abſurdity and' in- 
juſtice were flagrant, and it was revoked. 


I cannot fay how much of theſe forty-five 


thouſand florins the baron had' promiſed to 


the noble judge and the attorney. I only 


know that neither of them was puniſhed. 


Had not ſome holidays, luckily, intervened, : | 
or had che atrortley expected my arrival, the 
money wWodld have been paid, and an inef- 


fectua attempt to obtain retribution would 
have been the conſequerie 3 as happened in in 


+ many Himilar inſtances. N 
. gt have before mentioned the advertiſe- 
I ment inviting all WhO had any demands or 
7 complaints againſt Tt renck. to appear, with 
the promiſe of a ducat a day; ; and it is here 


proper to add, that the ſum of fifteen thou- 


fand florins Was brought to account, and 
paid our of the eſtates of Trenck. For this 
== Wamekar Peſpoſe fore W of f0tins 5 
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| were paid, ' belide, to this ſpecies If aim 
ants ; and though, after examination," their, 8 
pretenſions all proved to be futile; 17 and BE 


themſelves were caſt in damages, yet Was 


none of this money ever refunded,” or the 1 
falſe claimants puniſhed. Among theſe the | 


pretended” davghrer of general Schwerin res 
ceived two thouſand florins, notorious as Was 
her character. Again: Trenck was acchſed © 
of having appropriated the money of the re- 


ment to his own uſe, and treated as if con- 


5 victed. After his death a conſiderable de- 
mand was accordingly made. 1 happening, - 


however, to meet with Ruckhardt, Bis 5 


ter- maſter, he with aſſervations declared that, 
inſtead of being indebted to his regiment, 


his regiment was more than a hundred'thou- : __ 


| fand florins indebted to him, adviſed me to 


get atteſtations from the captains, "ad. _ i 


alfured me lie himſelf would give in a clear 
8 darement of the regiment's accounts. Baan 

1 followed his advice, haſtened to the fe. 
giment, and obtained ſo many proofs, that 
the quarter-maſter of the regiment, "wh, 


* in "concurrence with the major, bad, in 
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aun. ene the money, was impri- 
ſoned, and put in irons. W hat became of 


"the chief, or the falſe witneſs, afterward, I 


know. not: I only know, that nothing was 
- refunded, that the quarter-maſter found. pro- 

tectors, detained-the money, and, ſome years 
4 after this vile action, purchaſed a; commiſ- 
; ſion. . One inſtance more. 


Trenck, 10 the corps of e he: com- 


= 5 added a corps of huſſars, which he 
\ raiſed, and provided with horſes and accou- 
tirements at his own expence. Theſe huſſars 
were diſbanded- after his death, and the 
3 horſes and accoutrements ſold by auction. | 
- My. demand, on this account, was, upwards 


of. ſixty thouſand florins; to Which I re- 
ceived neither, money nor reply. He had, 


alſo, expended | a hundred thouſand florins 


for the raiſing and equipping his three thou- 
and pandours; in conſequence of which a 
ſigned agreement had been given him by 


government, that theſe hundred thouſand 


5 florins ſhould be repaid to his heir, or, he 


the heir, ſhould receive the command of the 


© regiment. The- e e "ks his 


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Seceate: was given to general Simiſchen! A 
and, as for the agreement, care was taken R 
ſhould never come into my hands. 1 "I 
theſe hundred thouſand florins were loft: - =—_ 
_ Yet it has been wickedly affirmed he mY ; | 


niece in the Spielberg for having em- 

bezzled the. regiment's money; whereas, 1 

would to God J only was in poſſeſſion of the 
ſums he expended on this regiment; but he 
conſide red the regiment as his own, and, 
gteat as was his avarice, ſtill greater was bis 
deſire of fame, and greater ſtill his love for 


have been repaid for improvement of the 


eſtates, I muſt add, theſe eſtates were bought 


at a time when the country had been left 


deſolate by the Turks, and the reinflare- >. 43 


ment of ſuch places as had fallen into their I 
hands, and the erecting of farm- houſes, - 
mills, ſtocking them with horſes, cattle, 


and ſeed corn, according to my poor Wh 4 | 
ae, could not amount to leſs than ;eighty -. 


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his empreſs, for whom he would gladly Ws, y =—_ 
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thouſand florins; but I was forbidden to 
80 into Sclavonia, and the preſident offered, 
as an indemnification, four thouſand e 
very body. was aftoniſhed ; but he, with 


with the utmoſt coolneſs, told me, I muſt 


either accept this or nothing. The hearers 
of this ſentence caſt their eyes up to heaven, 
and pitied me. I remonſtrated, and thereby 
only made the matter worſe. Grief and 
anxiety occaſioned me to take a journey into 
Italy, paſſing through Venice, ROWE: nd 
Florence. 

On my return to Vienna, L by a Fele 
rttenee in behalf of a woman, whole 
fears, rather. than guilt, had. brought her 
into danger, became ſuſpected myſelf; and 


the very officious officers of the police had 


me impriſoned, as a coiner, without. the 
leaſt grounds for any ſuch, accuſation, ex- 
cept their, .own ſurmiſes. I was, detained, 
unheard, nine days ; and when, having been 
heard, I had entirely juſtified myſelf, was 
{ans reſtored. to. liberty; public dechra- 
tion Was chen made, in the Gazette, that 5 


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pine, _ _- 
N This was the ſatisfaction graned; "bi 
this did not content me. 1 threatened the 
counſcllor by whom my character had been | 
fo aſperſed ; and the empreſs, condeſcend- þ 
ing to mediate, beſtowed on me a captain- 
ſhip of cayalry, in the Cordova cone.” 
ſiers. ; . 
0 Such was the recompence T's cb torr 
wounds, lo deep, and ſuch. the neglect into 
which I Was thrown at Vienna. | Difcon- 
rent led me to Join my en in Hun- 
gary. Ear 3 
Here 1 Ln the applauſe of ER = 
10. count Bettoni, who himſelf. told the | 
empreſs, ; more than any other, "had, con- 5 
tributed to the forming of the regiment. ; 
It may well be imagined 19 a map. like 
me, "accuſtomed, OY ba had been, to- the” 
firſt company of the firſt courts, maſt paſs "0 
my time among the Carpathian.mountains, 2 
5 where neither ſoeiety, 1 nor good be Ks WT = 
to be found f nor knowledge, of f which. 1 1 
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: Cation of. count Bettoni, and che chace, to- 
3 gether with the love of the genetal of the 


regiment, old field-marſhal Cordova, were 
my only reſources; the perſecutions, ne- 


Yet, and even contempt, I received at 


Vienna, were kin the . 

In the year 17 54, and the month of 
March, my mother died in Proffia, and I 
_ requeſted permiſſion of the court that held 
"the inheritance of Trenck, as a Jidei comin UE 
Jum, to make a journey to Dantzic, to ſettle 
ſome family affairs with my brothers and 
2 ſter, my eſtates being confiſcated. This 
permiſſion was granted, and thither I went 
in May, where I, once more, fell into the 
bands of the Pruſſians; which forms che 
ſecond great, and ftill more gloomy epocha 
in my life. All who read what” follows 
Will Thudder, will commiſerate him, Who, 
Wig himſelf i innocent, relates afflictions he 
has wiſerably encountered, and & 8 
overcome.” =, 

4 20 # left Hungary. here was in Baris, : 


Jer Dantzic, where I had defired my bro 0 


chers and ſiſter to meet me, wat e miglilt 
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robbed E That this was done, I have living | 


( 273 3 


ſettle our affairs. My principal intent, W 
however, was a journey to Peterſburgh, , 
there to ſeek the advice and aid of my. 
friends, for law and perſecution were not yet 
ended at Vienna; and my captain's: pay, 
and ſmall income, were ſcarcely ſufficient- 
to W OE: of attornies and con 
ſellors. 
It is here moſt N of remark, [Hite 1 
was told, by prince F erdinand of Brunſwic, Þ} 
governor of Magdeburg, he had received 
orders to prepare my priſon at Magdeburgs.. 9 
before I ſet out from Hungary. £42 - 
Nay more, it had been written, from Vis 
enna to Berlin, that the king muſt beware 1 
of Trenck, for that he would be at Danrzie 8 
at che time when the Ling w was to o viſit tis. = 
| camp in Pruffiz. N 1 | 
What thing more vile, what ' contrivance - 
more abominable, could the wickedeſt 
wretch on earth find to baniſh 4 man his 0 3 
country, that he might ſecurely: enjoy = i 
property of which the other had been 


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Brunſwic, and the Berlin miniſtty; Hom 
| Whoſe-mouths I learned this artifice. of. vil- 
1 lainy. It is the more neceſſary to eſtabliſh 85 
this is truth, becauſe that no one can compre- 
N hend why, the Great. Frederic ſhould: have 
. proceeded. againſt me in a manner ſo cruel 
as, When it comes to be related, muſt; raiſe 
the indienation of the juſt, and move hearts 
of iron to commiſerate. ..  . 

Men ſo vile, ſo wicked, as] "Hi deſcribed 
; them... in conjunction with one Weingarten, 
N ſecretary to count Puebla, then Auſtrian 
= miniſter at Berlin, have e on me theſe 
1 my misfortunes. 272 
Ilhis was the Weingarten 8 28 is now 
1 well known, betrayed all the ſecrets of the 
1 Auſtrian court, to Frederic, who. at length 
woas diſcovered in the year 17:56, and who, 
When the war broke out, remained in the 
= ſervice of Pruſſia. This ſame Weingarten, 
* 5 N also, not only cauſed my wretchedneſß, but 
pw ſiſter's ruin and death; 3: as he likewiſe „ 
da che puniſhment. and death of three i inno- ñ 
cent men; which will hereafter be ſhown: N 
IE. is an incontrovertible, truth that I was 


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170 betrayed and fold by men, in Vienna, whoſe 
intereſt it Was that L ſhould be ee, 
ſilenced. TY 

+ was immediately viſited, bs my-E brothers 
and ſiſter, on my. arrival. at Haptzie, where 
We lived; happy in each ther S. omen '4 | 
during a fortnight ;, and an amicable partition 


was made of my mother effects: my Liter, | 


perfectly juſtified herſelf concerning the K 5. . 8 3 
ner in which I was; obliged to, fly t fr rom. he ai y "ok 4 I 
houſe, in. the year 1746; our Lan f 4 
1 and a8. brother and ſiſter ought fo part. TY _ 
Our only acquaintance in Dantzic Was the 8 
Austin re eſident, M. Abramſon, to 7 1 
1 brought. letters, of recommendation ff 18 m 4 
Vienna, and whoſe eception 0 (2 IJ 

| lite even to ed ar 1 Kt 5 N $ 2A. | 4 
This Abramſon was a;Pruſan porne n 1 


had never ſeen Vienpa, but obtziefl ls 
then office by the recommendation, of count 


Beſtuchef, withous ſcgurinr-for his: gh. 
duct, or Prgof . of, his. gd caffe heart. 9 8 f 
bead. He Was ing cloſe connexion Wühpthe 1 
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: 5 Sate 7 my | Broch oY Fo lter d. 
BS parted,” before 1 determined to ak a 
fab voyage by ſea to Ruſſia. 
| rived : a thouſand artifices, by which he de- 
tained me à week longer in Dantzic, that 
e, in In con] junction with ic ba. ad make 


Abramſon con- 


. he! neceſſary preparations. Tg 


The king of Pruffia had 40a that 


7 the inagitrates of Dantzic ſhould deliver me 


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up; "but this could not be done without of- 


5 fending the imperial court, I being a com- 


min oned offcer in that ſetvice, wirh proper 


IS PalſPores 4 it v Was therefore probable that this 
"negotiation required letters ſhould paſs and 
"fepals, and for this reaſon ; Abramſon was 


employed to detain me ſome days longer, 


till, by the laſt letters from Berlin, the ma- 
Eſtrates of Panrzic were induced to violate 
| public ſafery, andthe laws of nations. Abram- 
fon I Conſidered as my beſt friend, and my 
; perſon as in perfect ſecurity; he had there- 
$a fore no difficulty in perſuading ine to ſtay.” 
Ihe day of fuppoſed departure, on board 
A Swedifthi hip for Riga, approached'; and _ 
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one of his ſervants to the port, to know hs 
hour. At four in the afternoon he told mie 
he had bimſelf ſpoken to the captain, n 
faid” he ſhould not fail til the next day; 
adding that he, Abramſon, would bn: 4; 
me to breakfaſt, and would then accomphmy 
me 10 the veſſel. I felt a ſecret inquietude, 
which made me defirous of leaving Dantzic, 
and immediately to fend all my baggage, 
and fleep on board: Abramſon prevented _ 

{> me, dragged me almoſt forcibly along with F 
him, telling me he had much company, ant = | 
that 1 muſt abſolutely dine and ſup ak m 
houſe: accordingly I did not return. 10 why: 
2 inn till eleven at nigtlt. 

I was but juſt in bed, when " ie 2 

knocking at my door, which wall 
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time to take to my arms and defend myell. 
= My three ſervants had been ſecured ; and 1 
' was cold that the moſt worthy magiltracy oF 
—— Dintzic was obliged to deliver me up, 8 1 
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What were my feelings at ſeeing acht 
thus! betrayed They filently conducted me 
to the city priſon, where I remained twenty- 
four hours. Ahout noon, Abramſon. came 
to Rang me,, affected to be infinitely con- 
cerned and enraged, and affirmed he. had 
{ſtrongly proteſted againſt the illegality of 
this proceeding to, the. magiſtracy, as I was 
actually in the Auſtrian ſervice; but that 
they had anſwered him, the court of Vienna 
had afforded them a precedent, for that, in 
2 752, hey bad done che ſame by the two ſons 
of the burgomaſter Ruttenberg of Dantzic, 
and that, theretore, they were juſtified 1 in mak- 
ning repriſal; that, likewiſe, they durſt not 
| refuſe the moſt earneſt requeſt, accompanied 
vith threats, of the king of Pruſſia. - | __ 
Their plea, of retaliation originated 28 fol- 
Jows : There was a kind of club at Vienna, 
the members of which were ſeized. for hav- 
ig committed the utmoſt. extravagance and 
| 3 debauchery ; two of; whom, were the ſons 
of the purgomaſter Ruttenberg, and who 
ll. were ſentenced ro the pillory. Great ſums 
* 25 were offered, by che father, o avoid. this X 


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public diſgrace, but ineffectually; they 
were puniſhed ;. their puniſhment was legal, 


and had no ſimilarity, whatever to my caſe, 
nor could it AR way Joly give 3 4 


repriſal. 


% proteſt whateyer, but rather excited the ma- 
giſtracy, and acted i in concert with Reimer, 
adviſed me to put my writings. and other 
valuable effects into his hands, . otherwiſe 
they would be ſeized. He knew I had re- 


ceived, in letters of exchange, from my 


| brothers and ſiſter, about ſeven thouſand 
florins; and theſe 1 gave him, but kept my 
Ting, worth about four thouſand and ſome 


ſixty guineas, which I had i in my purſe.. He 
| then embraced me, declared nothing ſhopld 
. neglected to effect my immediate deliver- 


ance, that even he would raiſe the populace 
for that, purpoſe, . that I could not be given 


up to the Pruſbans in leſs: chan a week, the 
magiſtracy being ſtill pndetermined in; an 
affair ſo ſerious. 5 and: he left me, ſhedding 


abundance. of crocodile tears, like the, moſt -— 


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he next t night two rrenigifidiies; N 
8 80 poſſe, came to my priſon, attended by 5 
reſident Reimer, a Pruffian officer, and un- 
HYer-officers ; and into their hands I was de- 
: livered. — The pillage inſtantly began : Rei- 
mer tore off my ring, ſeized my watch, 
mouff- box, and all 1 had, not ſo much as 
ſiending me a coat, or ſhirt, from my effects; 
_ after which they put me into a cloſe coach, 
with "three Pruffians. The Dantzic guard 
nm e the carriage to the city gate, 
that was opened to let me paſs, after which 
the Dantzic dragoons eſcorted me as. ar as 
Lauenburg, in Pomerania. | 
I have forgotten the date +, this miſcrable 
Wy but, to the beſt of my memory, it 
mut have been in the beginning of June. 
Thirty Pruſſian huffars, commanded by a 
eutenant, relieved the dragoons at Lauen- 
burg; and thus was 1 eſcorted, from . 


|= on to garriſon, till I arrived at Berlin. 


Hence it was evidently falſely affirmed, 
by the magiſtracy of Dantzic, and the con- 
ſpirator Abramſon, wo wrote in his own 


1 1 to Vienna, that 13 ſeizure! muſt be 


and that I had expoſed myſelf to this arreſt 


: going without the city gates, where I was 


taken and carried off: nor is it leſs aſtormiſh- 


ing that the court of Vienna ſhould not have 


demanded ſatisfaction for the treachery e 
the Dantzi ckers toward an Auſtrian officer. 


1 have incontrovertibly proved this treachery, : 


after I had regained 'my' liberty. Abramſon, 
Indeed, they could not puniſh ; for gen" Þ 
my impiil nment he had quitted tle Avſtrian - 
for the Pruffian ſervice; where he Rad gras © 
dualſy become 10 contemptible, that, in elite 
year 1764, when 1 was releaſed from WE... 
impriſonment he was Henſelf ĩimpriſdned in 
he! houſe of correction; and his wife; lately 
ſo rich, was obliged to beg her bread. Thus 
have 1 generally lived to ſee the fall of oy 
betrayers; and thus have I found chat, With. 
out indulging perſonal revenge, virtue and 


fortitude muſt at length trünmph over ke $i 
Lalummator and the depot rü 


This truth will be further proved here- 


after; * nor can I behold, unmoved, the open :Y 
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how they tremble in my preſence, their 


wicked deeds now being. known. to the 
world —Nay, . monarchs. may yet puniſh 
their perfidy :—Yet not i {o.!—May . they 
rather die in poſſeſſion of wealth they have 


torn from me! I only wiſh' the pity {ng re- 


ſpe& of the virtuous and the wiſe. 425% 4 3D! 
But, though Auſtria has never, + RAP 
tho affront committed on the perſon | of an 


g officer i in its ſervice, ſtill have I a clam on 


the city of Dantzic, where I was chus trea- 


cherouſly delivered up, for the effects 1 there 


Was tobbed of; the amount of which is be- 


3 tween, eleven and twelve thouſand: -florins 


This is a caſe too elear to require argue. 
ment; and the publication of this hiſtory 


will make it known to the world. This 


claim alſo, among others, 1. leave to the 5 
chigren of an unfortunate father, | 
Enough of digreſſionz, let us. attend to the 


emits events which happened. on this 
__ diſmal} Journey to Berlin. IL was, eſcorted 


from garriſon to garriſon, which were diſtant 


72 from each other, two, three, or, at moſt 1 
= Hye Miles; 1 wherever 1 came 1 bound come 5 
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( 283 ) | 
paſſion and reſpect. The detachment . of 
; huffars only attended. me two days: it con- 

ſiſted of twelve men, and an officer, who 
ne with me in the carriage. ddt 
The fourth day I arrived at N where 5 
the duke of Wirtemberg, father of cap 1 
ſent grand- duchefs of Ruſlia,, was com- 
mander, and where his regiment was in 
quarters. The duke converſed with me 
was much moved, invited me to dine, and 
detained me all the day; where 1 was hot 
treated as a priſoner. I ſo far gained his 
eſteem, that I was allowed to remain there _ 
: the nent day: : the chief perſons of the place 
were allembled, and the ducheſs, whom he 
had lately married, teſtified eyery mark of | 
pity. and. eſteem. 1 ſtaid dinner with him ; 1 . 
alſo. on the third day; after which I departed 
in an open carriage, without eſcort, ded M 
only by a lieutenant of his regiment. 
210 muſt relate this event circumſtantially. 4 a 
Air not only proves the juſt and noble cha- = 
85 racter of che duke, but likewiſe that, there — F 
135 care poments in which. the braye may a =_ 
7 Pear cowards, dhe clear ehen blind, FN | 


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He wife" fookiſh ; nay, one might! almoft be 
led to conclude, from this, chat NC im- 
priſonment at Magdeburg Was the con- 
ſequence of predeſtination, ſince 1 remained 
 Tretted in ſtupor, in deſpite of ſuggeſtions, 
forchodings, and favourable opportunities. 
Who but muſt be aſtoniſhed, having read 
che dating efforts 1 made. at Glatz, at this | 
ſtrange inſenſibility now in the very criñs 

my fate? I afterward was convinced it was 
the intemion of the noble-minded duke that 
W Thou eſcape, and that he muſt have given 
8 particolar orders to the ſucceſſive officers. 

He would probably have willingly ſub⸗ 

: JeteGhitnſelF to the reprimands of Frederic, 
if I-would'have taken to flight. The j jour- 
ney, through the places where his regiment 
Was ſtationed, continued five days; and 1 
= every-where paſſed the evenings in the com- 
F | = pany of the officers, the kindneſs of. whom 
woas unbounded. 11 Nept*in their quarters 
1 without centinel, and travelle in their car- 
1 riages without other guard than a ſingle 
| Kt officer” in the carriage. In various places 
a * the * Toad was not more than f and 

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ES thirty men to obtain his freedom, — that 
Trenck, who had never been acquainted wich 


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| ſometimes one mile from the frontier-road, 


therefore nothing could have. been eaſier than 
do have eſca 


yet did the ſame Trenck, 
Who in Glatz had cut his way through 


fear, now remain four days bewildered, link 
unable to come to any determination. 
In a ſmall garriſon town I lodged; i in the 
"hook of a captain of cavalry, tid: - continu; | 
ally was treated by him with every mark „ 


friendſhip. | Aſter dinner, he rode at the 2 


head of his ſquadron, to water. the. horſe, | 


unſaddled.; "I. remained alone i in the houſe; 3 1 


entered the ſtable, ſaw three rem 11 


horſes, with ſaddles and bridles:: 5 in my 


chamber was a ſword, and a pair of piſtols, _ 1 1 


I-had but to mount one of the; .horles, - and 


fly. at the oppoſite gate. I. .meditated on 
the project, and almoſt reſolved, to put it in 


execution, but a became Lach 5 1 1 


mined, b 
tain returned ſometime: hin a. 3 
ed ſurpriſed. to find. me Kill. there. The 


next day he accom anieq me alone in 5 


7 carriage; we came to a forelt ; he. ſaw we | 


( 286 ) 
champignons, ſtopped, aſked me to alight, 
and help him to gather them; he ſtrayed 
more than a hundred paces om me, and 
gave me entire liberty to fly; yet, notwith⸗ 
ſtanding all this, I voluntarily returned, ſuf. 
fering myſelf to be led, like a ' theep to the 
laughter. s 
] was treated ſo well, and eſcorted with 7 Mo 
T1 3 much negligence, that T fell into A groſs $ 
error. Perceiving they conveyed me' ſtraight 4 
to Berlin, I imagined the king wiſhed to 
queſtion me concerning the plan formed 
for the war, which was then on the point 
olf breaking out. This plan I perfectly 
* Khew, the ſecret correſpondence of Beſtu- 
- Ehitf having all paſſed through my hands, 
1 Vhich citcumſtance was much better known 
| at Berlin than at Vienna. Confirmed in 
| 5 this opinion, and far from imagining the 
j | : F fate that awaited me, I remained irreſolute, 
'þ 1 inſenſi ble, and blind to danger. las, how 
1 ſhort was this hope! How quickly was it 
ſucceeded by deſpair, when, after four days 


command of the duke of Wirtemb * 


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was delivered up to the firſt garriſon of 
infantry at Coſlin! The laſt of the Wirtem- 
berg officers, when taking leave of me, ap- 
peared to be greatly affected; and fon this 


moment, till I came to Berlin, I was put | 


under a ſtrong eſcort, and the given orders 
were rigorouſly obſerved. 
_ Arrived here, I was lodged over the grand 


guard-houſe, with two centinels in my 


chamber, and one at the door. The king 
was at Potſdam, and here J remained three 
days; on the third, ſome ſtaff officers made 
their appearance, ſeated themſelves at a 
table, and ag * enn queſtions' to 
me : $3724 2 9 ) 
Firſt, What was my buſineſs at Dankaled 2. 


Secondly, Whether I was ee | 


with M. Goltz, * Fran N in 


© Thirdly, Who: was WO with me 
in the conſpiracy at Dantzi ec 
When! pekceived their intention, by * 
interrogations, I abſolutely refuſed: to reply; 
only ſaying I had been \1mpriſuned int the 
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. . availing myſelf of he 
laws of nature, ] had, by my. 'QWn Ex6rtians, 
procured. my liberty and that J was, NOW. a 
captain of cavalry in the Imperial. ſexvice; 
that I demanded a, legal trial for my firſt 
unknown. offence, aſter whick L engaged 
to anſwer all interrogatories, ang prove my 
innocence; but that, at preſent; being ac- 
euſed of new erimes, without a. hearing | 
concerning my former puniſhment,- the pro- 
cedure was illegal. I was told they had no 
orders concerning - this, and 1 remained 
dumb to all further queſtiqns... dds .314 
They wrote, ſome two hours, God e 


what! A carriage came up; 1 was ftrietly 


I 105 ſearched, ta find whether L had any Vea- 
3 : chürteen or fourteen, ducats, which [ 


3 : had cancealed, were taken from me, and J 


conducted, under a ſtrong eſcort, 


BS 1 to Moegdeburg. The of- 


ficer here delivered me up to the captain 


ol the guard at the citadel: tH&-rown-major 


came, and brought me to the dungeon, ex: 
4 preſsly prepared for me; 4 ſmall Picture, of 
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monds, which I had kept concealed! in my 
boſom, was now taken from me; the door 


was ſhut, and here was I left. - 


My dungean was in a caſemate, the fore 
part of which, ſix feet wide, and ten feet 
Jong, was divided by a party wall. In the 
Inner wall were two doors, and a third at 
the. entrance of the caſemate (elf. The 
window | in the ſeven- feet · thick wall was 
o ſituated, that, though L had light, I could | 
ſee neither heaven nor earth; I could only 1 


ſee the roof of the magazine: within and 3 
without this window were iron bars, and 


the ſpace between an iron grating, © clot I 2 5 5 
and ſo ſiruated, by the rifing of the walls,” 


that it was impoſſible [ ſhould ſee? any perſonn = 1 x 
wichour the pfiſon, or that any peplonould | "Ye 


ſee me. On the outſide was 4 Wo den 
paliſado, fix feet from the wall, by "which - - 
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any thing to me. 1 had a matteß ed a: 
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drag it and ſtand vp to the window; beſide 


the door was a ſmall iron ſtove and a night 
table, in like manner fixed to the floor. I 


was not yet put in irons, and my allowance 


Was a pound and a half per day ammunition 


bread, and a jug of water. 
From my youth I had always had a me 


Þ ; : bete, and my bread was ſo mouldy 1 
1 3% E6uld ſcarcely at firſt eat the half of it. This 
was the conſequence of Major Rieding $ 
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1 this, i great was the number of unfortunate 


. Priſoners; therefore, it is impoſſible I ſhould 
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> that, during eleven months, I felt from 


i 8 hunger. I could eafily every day 


have devoured ſix pounds of bread; and 


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have Katiated: my hunger on dry bread! Yar, # | 
ſo extreme was it, that, ſcarcely. had 1 d 1 
into a ſweet ſleep, before I dreamed I was | 
taſting at ſome table luxuriouſly. loaded 2 
where, eating like a glutton,. the 71 
| company. were aſtoniſhed to ſee me, While 
my. imagination was heated by. the en 
of famine. Awakened þy the d 
hunger, the . diſhes . vaniſhed, and 1 8 
remained. but the reality of. my diſtreſs; 3 * £ 
+ cravings of nature were but, inflame?, 1 5 
tortures prevented ſleep, and,, Jock ing aich 
futurity, the: cruelty of my. fate follgeG 45 

ä Poſſible, inęeaſe, from imaginiag r th 
prolongation of pangs like theſe. Was WN 1 
Portable. God preſerve every hong. nan l | 
from ſufferings like mine ! The mags got to WM 
be endured, by the villain wo?.. b eee, 
Many have faſted three days, Sans hage 1 
Auffered, want, for A, week, or mo, But. cer- 1 
tainly no one, beſide myſelf⸗ evat cadured,j * 
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L 5 Aid, bf” all the trials of fortitude my whole 
& life has afforded, this, of eleven months, was. 
be moſt bitter. "4 . 
Petitions, ct: were K no 
＋. vall; the enſwer was—© We muſt give no 
more; ſuch is the king's command,” The 
wernor-general Borck, born the enemy 
wan, replied, when I entreated, at leaſt, 
have my fill of bread, © You have feaſt- 
Fa often enough out of the ſervice of plate 
taken from the king, by Trenck, at the 
artle of Sorau; you muſt now eat am- 
| IJ pnition-bread in your dirty - kennel. 

N enpteſs makes no allowance for 
. naintenance, and you are unworthy 
e e bread you eat; or the trouble taken 
«© abo Feu. Judge, reader, what pangs 
ict inplence, added to ſia h ſufferings, 
i muſt infliÞ. Judge what were my thoughts, 

- foreſeeingh as I did, an endleſs Wund to: 

- this impriſonment and theſe torments. * 
My thre& doors were kept ever Neth and 2 

I was left. to ſuch meditations as ſuch „ © 5 

e ind ſuch hopes, might inſpire.” Day, | 


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/pittance of bread and water was brought, 
The keys of all the doors were kept by the 
governor; the inner door was net opened, 
but my bread and water were delivered | 4 
through an aperture. The -priſon-daor-y 
were opened only once a week, on a | L 
Wedneſday, when the governor and town= 4 
major, my hole having been firſt cleaned,” | - 
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Having remained thus two month. and 

| » obſerved this method was invariable, 1 be- 
gan to execute a project | had formed, of th: 9 
Poſſibility of which I was convinced. I 
Where the night-table and ſtove ſtqod, hes PE 
-fcor- was bricked, and this paving exten * Y 
ed to the wall that ſeparated my caſemats 
from the adjoining one, in . was. 4 


priſoner. My window was ga gua A 
: by a ſingle centinel; 1 therefore oon ; Hand. 
„„ among thoſe who ſueceſſively relieved 5 25 
8 two kind-hearted fellows, who. Ae! 
. to me the ſituation of my priſons? 3 hence 


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| I had a'friend, and a boat waiting for me at 
© the Elbe, or, could T ſwim acroſs that river, 
& the confines of La were bir a mile di. 
Iz Wat: PE Oe Dye 
Fe. deſcribe my pan at EG 00d! lead 
ta, prolixity, yet I muſt enumerate. ſome of 
its circumſtances as i it was remarkably intri- 
Hs and of gigantic labour. 0 

11 worked through the iron, eighteen nkties 
| long, by which the night table was faſtened, 
nnd broke off the elinchings of the nails, but 
. preſerved their heads; that I might put them 
E again in their places, and all might appear 
Feu tomy weekly viſitors. This procur- 
e me tools to raiſe op the brick floor, under | 
which I found earth. My firſt attempt was | 
to work a hole through the wall, ſeven feet 
| thick, behind, and concealed by che night-ta+ 
> ble.” The firſt layer was of brick. Þ after- 
wards came to. large” ' hewn ſtones!“ I en- 
da deavoured accurately to number and remem- 
ber the bricks; both of the flooring and the 
Pp wall, ſo that 1 might” replace them, and-all 
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The day preceding viſitation, all was MM 


carefully replaced, and the intervening 


mortar as carefully preſerved; the wholr 
had, probably, been White waſhed a hundred 
N times; and, that I might fill up all remain- 4 ; | 
ing interſtices, I pounded the white! ſtuff - 


| this afforded, weited it, and made. a bruſh 
of my hair, then applied this plaſter, waihed 


it over, that the colour might be uniform, 


and afterward ſtripped myſelf, and: fat, 


with my naked body againſt wanne by = | 


| the heat of which it was died. A 


While labouting, 1 placed 5 Ws Be : 1 | 
hacks upon my bedſtead,” and, had) they 
taken the - precaution to come at any: Leecher © 


time in the week, the ſtated Weeneſday 


excepted, I had inevitably been diſcovered; 
but as no ſuch ill accident befel- me, in fix * 'F 


months my Herculean labours: Wet me 4 


| other of ſuecẽ.7F f y {1 
Mleans were to > found to rave: the = 
rubbiſh from my. priſon ; ;-all of which, in A .. 

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wall ſo thick, it was impoſſible: to rex 


mortar and ſtone could not be removed. 1 
therefore took the earth, ſcattered 3 i A but. 


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* chamber, and ground it under my feet 
the whole day, till I had reduced it to duſt ; 
this duſt I ſtrewed in the aperture of my 
window, making uſe of the looſened night 
table to ſtand upon. I tied ſplinters from 


my bedſtead together, with the ravelled 


yarn of an old ſtocking, and to this affixed 
a tuft of my hair. I worked. a large hole 


* under the | middle: grating, which could not 


be ſeen when ſtanding on the ground, and 
| throvgh this 1 puſhed my duſt with the tool 
I had prepared to the outer window, then, 


Waiting till the wind ſhould happen to riſe, 
i eee night I bruſhed it away, it was 


blown off, and no appearance remained on 
the outſide. By this fingle expedient I rid 
* myſelf of at leaſt three hundred weight of 
_carth, and thus made room to continue my 
-Habours:/ yet, this being (till inſufficient, I 


a7 wy recourſe to another aztifice, which was, 
-  toknead up the earth in the form of ſauſages, 


to * he human forces? . 1 _ 


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pound or two more of earth 8 week. 1.5 


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tinel was walking, blew them, through a 

Paper tube, out ap” the window. 5 Into the 

empty ſpace I put my mortar and, ey 3 
and worked on ſucceſsfully. n if 
I Leannot, however, deſcribe my di :Ficulties, 3 il 
ale having penetrated about two fret into : 
the hewn ſtone. My tools were the irons 4 1 
1 had dug out, which faſtened my bedſtead no 
and night table. A. compaſſionate ſoldier. A 
alſo gave me an old iron ramrod, and a ſol- 
dier 85 ſheath-knife, which did me excellent 
| ſervice; more eſpecially the latter, as I wall © 
of preſently more fully ſhow. With theſe two 1 { 
cut ſplinſters from my bedſtead, which aid. 
ed me to pick the mortar from the interſtices 1 


of the ſtone: yet the labour of penetrating | Wo | 


2 


through this ſeven · feet wall was incredible 8 : 
the building was ancient, and the mortar 4 
occaſionally quite petrified,” ſo that the 
Whole ſtone, was obliged. to be retfueed. to 
duſt. Aſter continuing my work, untemit 
tingly, for fix months, I at length app Dac 7 
5 0 the, e of my bebe I, . 


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bew by coming to the facing of brick, | 
= which now was only between! me and the 
adjoining caſemate. N W 

"Meantime T found opportunity to ; pet 

to ſome of the centinels; among whom was. 

an old grenadier, called Gef hardt, whom 1 
5 here name, becauſe he diſplayed qualities of 
H the greateſt and moſt noble kind. From 
2 bim I learned the preciſe ſituation of my 
= priſon, and every circumſtance that might 

3 beſt conduce to my eſcape. 5 

3 _ Nathiog was wanting but money to buy | 
$5 " boat, and croſſing the Elbe with Gef hardt, 
80 take refuge in Saxony. By Gefhardr's 8 
. meat 1 became acquainted with a kind 
pearted girl, a Jeweſs, and a native of 
Deco, Eſther Heymannin by name, and 
* ' whoſe father had been ten years in priſon. 
bis good, compaſſionate maiden, whom I. 
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had. NEVET ſeen, won over two other grena-- 
diers, who gave her an opportunity of ſpeak- 
| ing to me every time they ſtood centinel; 
18 tying- my ſplinters together, I made. 4 OP 
dick long enough to reach beyond the pali⸗ ES 
3 1 7 mat were before my window, and. VE | 


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3 effects at Vienna, defiring him to temm 
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7 having the power either to break into che 
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dow, deſcribed my fituation, | and entreated * 


Jeweſs; hoping, by this means, I miglit 4 
eſcape from my priſon, 1 wrote another 3 


ſtrian ambaſſador at Berlin, in which was: £8 


_ my ſiſter ſhould ſend to me, and take mags I 
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her to remit three hundred rix- dollars to cha 1 


affecting letter to count Puebla, the 


incloſed a draft for a thouſand florins on my 


that ſum as a reward for her fidelity. She 1 
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| Wee where ſhe arrived ſafe, and immedi- 
ately ſpoke to count Puebla. The count gave 


Her the kindeſt reception, received the letter, 


with the letter of exchange, and bade her 
g0 and ſpeak to Weingarjen, the ſecretary 
of the embaſly, and act entirely as he ſhould 
direct. She was received by, Weingarten in 
the moſt friendly manner, who, by his 
IE queſtions, drew from her the whole ſecret, 
aud our intended plan of flight; aided by the 
two grenadiers; and alſo that ſhe had a let- 
ter for my ſiſter, which ſhe muſt carry to 


B Hammer, near Cuſtrin. He aſked to ſee 
mis letter, read it, told her to proceed on 
ber journey, gave her two ducats to bear 


ber expences, ordered her to come to him 


on her return, ſaid that, during this interval, 
be would endeavour to obtain her the thou- 


= ſand florins for my draft, and would mr 
1 give her further inſtructions. _ | . 
Ether cheerfully departed for Hammer, 
: e my Vſter. then a widow, and 0 


: l L longer, as in 1746, in dread of her huſbands. 
* | Joyful to hear I was: ſtill living, aten, vp 


- gave her the three hundred rix-dollars, ex. 
J. bens 


quired the names of the two grenadiers. He 
told her the thouſand florins from Vienna 
were not yet come; but gave her twelye 
ducats, bade her haſten back to Magdeburg, | 
to carry me all this good news, and then re- 
turn to Berlin, where he would pay her the 
thouſand florins. Eſther came to Magde- J 


. 
F horting her to exert every poſſible m means t 
obtain my deliverance. Eſther haſtened 


back, with the letter from my ſiſter to me, | 


to Berlin, and told all that had paſſed to 
Weingarten, who read the letter, and in- 


burg, went immediately to the citadel, and, 
| moſt luckily, met the wife of one of the 


grenadiers, who told her that her huſband * 


and his comrade had been taken, and put in 


irons the day before. Eſther had quickneſs of 5 1 
perception, and ſuſpected we had been be- : 
trayed; ſhe therefore inſtantly again began 


bY her travels, and happily came ſale to Deſſau. 


Here 1 mult interrupt my narrative, that 
| 1 may explain this infernal enigrtia-to my 
5 readers; an account of which + received 
after I had obtained my freedom, and ſtill RE | 
* in the nn, of this Jewels: - 


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Weingarten, as was afterwards diſcovered, 
Was a traitor, and too much truſted by count 
| Puebla; he being a ſpy in the pay of Pruſſia, 
| and one who had revealed to the court of 
Berlin not only the ſecrets of the imperial 


1 


jected war. For this reaſon, he afterward, 
When war broke out, remained at Berlin 
= in the Pruffian ſervice. His reaſon for be- 
| * ‚ traying me was that he might ſecure the 
= thouſand florins which I had drawn for on 
Vienna; for the receipt of the 24th of May, 
1735, atteſts that the ſum was paid, by the 
8 adminiſtrators of my effects, to count Pue- 


| 8 £ : tor can 1 believe that Weingarten did not 
E- appropriate this ſum to himſelf, fince I ean- 
= not be perſuaded. the ambaſſador would 
= tommir ſuch an action, although the receipt 
BH is in his hand-writing, as may eaſily be de- 
monſtrated, it being now in my poſſeſſion. 
= 5 Thus did Weingarten, that he might detain 

a thouſand florins with impunity, bring new 


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| grenadier td run the gauntlet three bree 
N and another to be hung. 5 


truſted him with the plot, or if he knew i 1 
wWhither ſhe was fled, and miſerably: died in 
ſetters. Such was the miſchief occaſioned. 1 


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Eſther alone eſcaped, and ſince gave me m 
cucidarion of the whole affair. The report 
at Magdeburg was that a Jeweſs had ob- 


tained money from my ſiſter, and bribed two | 1 


grenadiers ; and that one of theſe had truſted, 
and been betrayed by his comrade. - 12% 
what other ſtory could be told at Magde. 
burg, or how cbuld it be known 1 had been A 
betrayed to the Pruſſian miniſtry by the i im- | 
perial ſecretary? The truth, however, is as 
I have ſtated ; my actount-· boo exiſts, and 
the Jeweſs 1 is Mil-alve; 5-7, 8 
Her poor Fe tber was 5 ane 5 
with more than a hundred blows, to make 
him declare whether his daughter had int 


by a raſcal! And who might be blamed but ( = bh 


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begged it might be reſtored. He received 
my agent with rudeneſs, returned no anſwer, 
and ſeemed to trouble himſelf little concern- 


ing my lofs. Whether the heirs of the count 
be, or be not, indebted. to me theſe thouſand 
florins, and the intereſt, I leave the world to 
determine. Thrice have I been betrayed 
t Vienna, and ſold to Berlin, like Joſeph 
"x0: the Egyptians. My hiſtory proves the 
otigin of my misfortunes was the perſuaſion 
that reſidents, envoys, and ambaſſadors 
myſt be men of known worth and honeſty, 
and not the vileſt of raſcals and miſcreants. 
Bot, alas! the effects and money they have 
robbed me of have never been reſtored; and 
for the miſeries they have brought upon me 
Wr could not be recompenſed by the wealth 
of any or all the monarchs on earth. Eſtates 
they may, but truth they cannot, confiſeate 
and of the villainy of Abramſon and Wein- 

garten I have documents and proofs that 


no court of Juſtice could diſannul © 610 1 


reader, if thou haſt a heart, and in chat heat. 
| potion! Stop, and imagine What m 
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ſenſations are, while 1 reibe and re- 


count a part only of the injuſtice chat has = 


been done me, a part only of the tytanny I 
have endured ! By this laſt act of treachery 


of Weingarten, was I held in chains, the 


moſt horrible, for nine ſucceeding [years | | 


By him was an innocent man brought to 
the gallows! By him, too, my lifter, my. be- 


loved, my unfortunate ſiſter, was obli ged. to 
build a dungeon for me, at her own ex- A | 


pence! beſide being amerced in a fink, the 
extent of which I never could learn. Her 


"goods were plundered, her eſtates made Wi; 


deſert, her children fell into extreme po- 4 
verty, and ſhe herſelf expired, in her thirty+ 540 


third year, the victim of cruelty, per 


tion, her brother's misfortunes, and the trea- 5 | 


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Bleſſed ſhade of a beloved Aſter | 1 he . 
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erxifice of my adverſe and dreadful fare! Thee 4 

could I never avenge ! Thee could: the blood I 

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grave To thee do I dedicate theſe few pages, 
2*trib:3te of thankfulneſs ; and, if future re- 
wards there are, may the brighteſt of theſe 
rewards be thine ! For us, not for ours, may 
rewards be expected from monarchs, who in 
| ny have beheld our mortal ſufferings. 
880 noble ſoul, murdered, though thou 
rt,/ by the enemies of thy brother! Again 
Bot? blood boils, again the tears roll down 
y checks, when I remember thee, thy ſuf- 
fp in my cauſe, and thy untimely end! 
I knew it nor—1 ſought to thank thee— 
| Found thee in the grave -I would have made 
retribution: to thy children; but unjuſt, 
© Jionthearted: princes had deprived me af the 
| porter c the virtuous heart conceive - 
ion” more cruel? My' own-ills F would 
have rel with magnanimity'; but thine 
are wrongs 1 have neither the Pee to tor- 
nor heal. e 91 e OP Ie 
Enough „ on 5 Bc, 
* worthy emperor, Francis 1. hed 
rears, when J after ward had the honour on 
relating to him, i in perſon, my paſt miſerie 
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at his feet. His emotion was ſo great, cat 
he tore himſelf away ! I left the palace with 
all that enthuſiaſin of ſoul which: ſuch a 
ſcene muſt inſpire. bo 85 
He probably would have 3058 more 


chop pitied me, but his death ſoon followed; 


I relate this incident to convince: poſterity 
that Francis I. poſſeſſed a heart worthy an 


emperòr, worthy-of a man. In the know= | 
ledge I have had of monarchs, he ſtanas 
alone. Frederie and: Thereſa both died- 


without doing me juſtices I. am now to 
old;. too proud, have too much apathy: to 
expect it from their ſucceſſors. Petition 47 
will not, knowing my rights; and bee 
from. courts of law, however evident ]] 
claims, were, in theſe courts, vain indeed td 
expect. Lawyers and advocates 1. an 
but too well, a an mm wks rer 
rights I Have not. ? 1923 ge 
What heart Hoi can feel. 5 will pardon 


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| | Once more.,—lI heard ing of what 
Re happened for ſome days; at length, 
= however, it was the honeſt Gef hardt's turn 
do mount guard; but the poſts being dou- 
q : bled, and two additional grenadiers placed | 


before my door, explanation was exceed- 
ingly difficult. He, however, in ſpite. of 
| precaution, found means to inform me of 
what had happened to his two unfortunate 
comrades. * 
The king came to a review at Magde. 
burg, when he viſited the Star-Fort, and 
commanded a new cell to be immediately 
made, preſcribing himſelf the kind of irons 
by which I was to be ſecured. The honeſt 
SGef hardt heard the officer ſay this cell was 
meant for me, and gave me notice of it; 
but aſſured me it could not be ready in leſs 
than a month. I therefore determined; as 
ſoon as poſſible, to complete my breach in 
the wall, and eſcape without the aid of any 
done. The thing was poſſible ;- for I had 
\ © twiſted the hair of my mattreſs 1 into a rope, 
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ſwim acroſs the Elbe, gain the Saxon. fron, 
tiers, and thus ſafely eſca fee 


On the 26th of May 1 had determined a, 


break into the next caſemate; but when 1 5 


came to work at the bricks, I found them 
ſo hard, and ſtrongly cemented, that I was 

obliged to defer the labour to the follow- 
ing day. I left off, weary and ſpent, at 
day-break ; and ſhould any one enter my 
dungeon, they muſt infallibly diſcover the 


breach. How dreadful is the deſtiny. by 0 


which, through life, I have been perſecuted, 
and which has continually plunged me head - 


long into calamity, when J imagined ber 


neſs was at hand ! 


of deſpair ! The locks and bolts reſou 4 


The 27th of May was a cruel day in the 4 
hiſtory of my life. My cell ia the Star- fort | f 
had been finiſhed ſooner than Gef hardt had 
3 ſuppoſed; and at night, when I was pre- 
paring to-fly, 1 heard a carriage ſtop before * 
my. priſon. Oh, God! what, was mi F.-Y 
ror | what were the horrors of this moment 


5 : the ORs. flew open, and the Jaſt. of. ny | * | 


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my knife. The town- major, the major: of 


the day, and a captain entered; I faw them 
by the light of their two, lanterns. The 


only words they ſpoke were, © Dreſs your- 
lf; which was immediately, done. 1 


Mill wore: the uniform of the [regiment of 
Cordova. Irons were given: me, Which ! 
was obliged: myſelf to faſten on my wriſts 


and ancles: the town · major: tied a bandage 


over my eyes, and tak ing me under the arm, 


they thus conducted me to the carriage. 
It Was neceſſary to pals. through the city to 


_ arrive at the Star-Fort: all was ſilent, ex- 


eept the noiſe . of the. eſcort; but when we 


entered Magdeburg, [ heard: the people 


Funding, who were crowding together to 
obtain a ſight of me. ITbeir curioſity was 
bee, by the report that I was going to, be 


5 Heheaded. That I | was :executed- on this 
a 5 g occaſion, 1 in the Star-Fort, after having been 
eeonducted blind - fold. through the city, has 
ick been both affirmed and written; and 


; 3 . 8 the Officers had then orders to propagate | 


Ithis error, that the world: might remain in 
Aer, ignorance concerning me. H Indeed : 


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gagged, J behaved as if 1. expected 


| reproached my conductors 8 in Jangua 50 Fes | 


even made them ſhudder, and painted the 
king in his true colours, as one Who, +a 


heard, had condemned an innocent Fe 


| Io a deſpotic exertion. of power 


My fortitude was admired, at the moment 


; ma it was e [ thought myſelf leads 
ing to execution. No 
their ſighs intimated, 3 compaſſion: 
tain it is, few Pruſſians n 0 
ſuch commands. « "ls 

ſtopped, and Lwas b; 80 

cell. The bandage was ce Fi 6 w. 


| eyes, The dungeon. was lighted by a few ' 1 
torches. | God of heaven what wet e m 2 
feelings, when 4 beheld the whole Ke pr -CQ- 2 


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- which was incorporated in the wall. This 
ting was three feet from the ground, and. 
| - only allowed me to move about two or 
three feet to the right and left. They next 
_ rivetted another huge iron ring, of a hand's 
| breadth, round my naked body ; to which 
hung à chain fixed into an iron bar, as thick 
as a man's arm. This bar was two feet in 
4-16 and at each end of it was a handcuff, 
as: repreſented in the plate. The iron collar 
round my neck was not added till the year 
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No ſoul bade me Bo nicht—All retired 
In dre adful filence and I heard the horri- 
ble grating of four doors, that were ſucceſ- 
ſſively locked and bolted upon me! 
0 "Thus does man act by his fellow, know- 
ing him to be 1 innocent, having received We 
' commands of another man ſo to act. 7 
O! God] thou aldne knoweſt * my 
T good as it was of guilt, beat at this . 
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chick darkneſs, upon the bare earth, with 
a weight of fetters inſupportable to nature, | — 
thanking thee that theſe cruel men had not 
diſcovered my knife, by which my miſeries 
might yet find an end. Death is a laſt, 

certain refuge, that can, indeed, bid defi- 
ance to the rage of tyranny. What ſhall 8 
fay? How ſhall I make the reader feel as 
I then felt? How deſeribe my depende = 
cy, and yet account for that latent impulſe 5 4 
that withheld wy hand on | this faral—this | 


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miſerable night? Pg 1 „ 
This miſery I foreſaw was not af hore 
duration : J had heard of the wars that were 
lately broken out between Auſtria and Af 
Pruſſia. Patiently to wait their termina- 4 
tion, amid ſufferings. and wretchedneſs ben 
as mine, appeared impoſſible, and freedom 
even then was doubtful. Sad experience had | 
I had then of Vienna, and well 1 knew chat 
_ thoſe, who had deſpoiled me of my pro- 
perty, moſt anxiouſly would endeavour to 
prevent my return. Such were my medi- 4 { | 
; ens! Such my night thoughts!” Day, 
at lei fp returned—But es Was its 
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ſplendor ? Fled—]. beheld it not Vet 
was its glimmering obſcurity ſufficient to 
| ſhow me what was my dungeon. 

In breadth it was about eight feet; in 

| length, ten. Near me once. more ſtood a 
dight-t table; in a corner was a ſeat, ſour 
8 bricks broad, on which I might ſit, and re- 
3 <line againſt. the wall. . Oppoſite the ring 
to which I was faſtened, the light was ad- 
3 235 mitted through a ſemicircular aperture, one 
foot high, and two in diameter. This 

* aperture aſcended to the centre of the wall, 
which was ſix feet thick, and at the central 
part Was a cloſe iron grating, from which, 
dune the aperture deſcended, and its 
two extremities were again ſecured by 
dees iron bars. My dungeon was built 
in the ditch of the fortification, and the 
aperture by Which che light entered was 

ſo covered by the wall of the rampart, that, 
* inſtead of finding immediate. paſſage, the 
| - Lght. only gained admiſſion by reflection. 5 
- This, conſidering the ſmallneſs of the per- 
mit: and the impediments of grating and. 


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N great, yet my eyes, in time, became 1⁰ ac- 
cuſtomed to this glimmering, that I could 
ſee a mouſe run. In winter, however, 
when the ſun,did not ſhine into the ditch, 
it was eternal night with me. Between | 
the bars and the grating was a glaſs win- 
By, dow, with a ſmall central caſement, which 
might be opened to admit air. My night 
table was daily removed, and beſide me 
ſtood a jug of water. The name 0 
TRENCK Was built in the wall, in fed 
brick, and under my feet was a comb-ſtone, "= 
with the name of Takxek allo cut on it. 1 J 
and carved with a death's head. The 
doors to my dungeon were double, of oak, 
two inches thick: without theſe was an 1 
; open ſpace or front cell, in which was 4 3 
window, and this ſpace ' was likewiſe ſhut 9 


J in by double doors. The dj tell, in which 3 q 
- this dreadful den was built, was incloſed... . 
C on both ſides by paliſadoes, * twelve fecr 
"I | high, the key of the door of which was en⸗ 
- I rvuſtedto the officer of the guard, it being 
a.. King's intention to prevent "all poſſi- 


"Gilkey of ſpeech or communication with . * 
„ 2 5 25 8 . p 2 8 centineſs, » J 8 RY we, 4 


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5g centinels. The only motion I had the 


power to make was that of Jumping up- 


ward, or ſwinging my arms, to procure my- 
{elf warmth. When more accuſtomed to 


ttheſe fetters, I was likewiſe capable of mov- 


„ 


ing from ſide ts fide, about four feet, 
but this pained my ſhin- bones. 
The cell had been finiſhed with lime nd 


aſter but eleven days, and every body 


3 "4 ſyppoſcd it would be impoſſible J ſhould 
daft in theſe damps above a fortnight. 1 


remained fix months, continually immerſed 
in water, that wickled upon me from the 


: thick arches under which I was; and I can 


_ fafely affirm that, for the firſt three months, 
was, never dry; yet did I continue in 
. 1 was viſited daily, at noon, after 
wels guard, and the doors were then 
en to be left open for ſome minutes, 
- otherwiſe the dampneſs of the air Put out 
© their candles. | | 
This was my ſituation, and here 1 fat, | 
* of friends, helpleſoly wretched, "4 
preyed on by all the torture of thought, 4 


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the moſt dreadful of! jmages. My heart was 23 
not yet wholly turned to ſtone, my fortitude 3 
was ſunken to deſpondeney'; my dungeon | 
was the very cave of deſpair ; yet was my 
arm reſtrained, yet was this exceſs of a | 
endured”; d bg zthol + 
How then may hope be wholly cridicaghd 1 
from the heart of man! My fortitude aſter 1 
ſome time began to revive; I glowed with . Þ 
the defire of convincing the world 1 was 
7 capable of ſuffering what man had never 
ſuffered before, perhaps of at laſt emerging 14 
from this load of wretchednels, triumphant 
over my enemies. S0 long and ardently” , 
: did my fancy dwell on this picture, that my 44 
mind at length acquired a heroiſm Whick + : I 
| Socrates' himſelf certainly never poſſeſſed?” 
Age had benumbed his ſenſe of Ho 
and he drank the poiſonous draught witlx 
cool indifference ; I was young, inured o 
5 high hopes, yet now beholding deliverance ; 
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diiſtance. Such too were the ſufferings of I 
foul and body, I could not hope they: might 1 


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About noon my den was opened. Sorrow 


and compaſſion were painted on the coun- 


tenances of my keepers. No one ſpoke: 


no one bade me good-morrow. Dreadful, 


indeed, was their arrival, for, unaccuſtomed 


to the monſtrous Bolts and bars, they were 


kept teſounding for a full half hour, before 
ſoch ſoul-chilling, ſuch hope-murdering im- 
pediments were removed. It was the voice 


of tyranny that thundered! 


7 My night · table Was taken Out, Ka 
bed, mattreſs, and blankets, were brought 


me; a jug of water ſat down, and beſide 
it an ammunition - loaf of ſix pounds weight, 
That you may no more complain of hun- 
t ger, faid the town major, you ſhall 
e have as much bread as you can eat.” The 
door was 88 and 1 A gain A to * 


| thoughts. | 1 
What a 3 . is 955 called . 


I L nel. Howeſhall I expreſs. my extreme 


Joy, when, after ele ven months of intolera- 
ble hunger, I was again indulged with a 
full feaſt of coarſe aramunition-bread! The 90 
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the arms of his expecting bride, the famiſhs 
ed tiger more ravenouſly on his prey, than 
I upon this loaf; I ate, reſted, ſurveyed the 
precious morſe], ate again, and abſolutely 
ſhed tears of pleaſure Breaking bit aft- 


loaf, 


Oh Nature ! wha ic delight we thou com- : 
bined with the gratification of thy wants! 


er bit, I had by evening devoured all my Ko 


Remember this, ye who gorge, ye who. 8 
rack invention to excite appetite, and which _— 
yet you cannot procure ; remember hoW 3 
ſimple are the means that will give a cruſt 
of mouldy bread a flavour more exquilire 7 ; 
than all the ſpices of the Eaſt, ' or all the 


a profuſion of land or ſea; ; remember this, : 3 
grow, hungry, and indulge your {cnſuality. oY 


Alas! my enjoyment was of ſhort dura- 4 
. 1 ſoon found that exceſs is followed 8 43 
by pain and repentance. My faſting had 2 

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tive. My body ſwelled, my water- Jug was A 


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inordinate thirſt racked me all the night. 4 


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ed to refine on torture, and, aſter ſtarving 
me fo. long, to invite me to gluttony. 
Could I not have reclined on my bed, I 

ſhould indeed have been driven, this night, 
to deſperation: yet even this was but a 
partial relief, for, not yet accuſtomed to 
my enormous fetters, I could not extend 
myſelf in them in the ſame manner I was 
afterward taught to do by habit. I drag- 
gd them, however, ſo. together, as to en- 
able me to fit down on the bare mattreſs. 
This, of all my nights of ſuffering, ſtands 
et. When they opened my dun- 
geon next day, they found me in a truly 
* ſituation, wondered at my appe-- 
ite, brought me another loaf; I refuſed to 
4 = accept it, believing I never more ſhould 
| have occaſion for * bread ; they, however, 
leſt me one, gave me water, ſhrugged up 
| their ſhoulders, wiſhed me farewell, AS, ac- 
rding to ah appearance, they never ex 
beate to find me alive, and ſhut all the 
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again eat a morſel of bread, and my mind 
brave in health, now, in à ſick body, bes 
came pufillanimous, ſo that I determined! 
on death. The irons, every where Found} 
my body, and their weight, | wete: lnſaps,, - 
portable; nor could J imagine it was pots!” 
ſible I ſhould habituate myſelf to chemor 
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patience appeared abſurdity, and reſolution 
meanneſs of ſoul, yet I wiſhed my mind 
mould be ſatisfied that reaſon, and not raſh- 
3 ness; had induced the act. 1 therefore de- 
totmined, that I might examine the queſtion 
coqly, to wait a week longer, and die on 
the fourth of July. In the mean time I re- 
4 volved in my mind what poſſible means there 
3 were of eſcape, not fearing, naked and 
chalned, to ruſh and expite on x the baponers 

J et wy anermes, ' 1-4 
The next day 1 at as the four 
doors wereiopened, that they were only of 
dd, there fare queſtioned whether I might 
even aut off the locks with the knife 
had To. fortunately concealed; and, 
ad ths and eyery other means fail, then 
1 would be the time to die. I likewiſe deter- 
mined to make an attempt even to free my- 
ni chains. I happily forced my right 
hand thre uoh che hand-cuff,, though the 
"blood trickled from my nails. My attempts 
on the left were long ine ffectual: but, by FERN 
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13 the four doors i in four and de Hours,” > 


(323) 


ſeat, on the rivet that had been negligently 8 4 
_ cloſed, I effected this alſo. &.-1 ; 


The chain was faſtened to the rim round | 
my body, by a hook, one end of which was 
not inſerted in the rim ; therefore, by ſetting 
my foot againſt the wall, I had ſtrength, | 
enough fo far to bend this hook back, and 


open it, as to force out the link of the chain. 2 i 
The remaining difficulty was the chain chat 


attached my foot to the wall: the links of 


wrenched, till, at length, nature rabid 
beſtowed on me great” ſtrength, L made à 


deſperate effort, ſprang forcibly up. — 


„ — 


two links at once flew off. 2 1 


Fortunate, indeed, did I think myfelf; 19 
baſtened to the door, groped in the dark 


to find the clinchings of the nails by which | 
the lock was faſtened, and diſcovered” no 


very large piece of wood need be cut. I 
mediately I went to work with my ik 4 
and cut through the oak door, to find 5 
thickneſs, which proved to be 'only 9 

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Again hope revived in my heart. To 
prevent detection I haſtened to put on my 
chains; but, oh God! what difficulties 
F had I to ſurmount After much groping 
” about, I at length found the link that had 
flown off; this I hid. It had been my. good 
fortune hitherto to eſcape. examination, as 
the poſſibility of ridding. myſelf of ſuch 
chains was in no wiſe ſuſpected. The ſe- 
Parated links I tied together with my hair 
E - Tibhon! but, when I again. endeayoured 
do force my hand into the ring, it was fo 
E felled that every effort was fruitleſs. The 
whole night was employed upon the rivet, 
baut all labour was in vain. 
1 Noon was the hour of viſitation, and 
1 neceſſity and danger again obliged me to 
attempt forcing my hand in, which at 
length, after excruciating torture, I effect- 
ed. My viſitors came, and every thing 
bad the appearance of order, I found it 
4 however, impoſſible to force out my right. 
band while it continued ſwelled. be EN 
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wards was conquered in leſs than an hour; 
the other was a very different taſk. The 
lock was ſoon cut round, but it opened 
5 1 above the bar. 
15 poſſible, though it was the more difficult, - 


N or rather flowed from my body; my fingers 5 
were clotted with my own blood, and mx 


the window in the ſpace or cell that was 4 


ed. Here I ſaw my dungeon was in the 9 
ditch of che firſt rampart: befoxe me I beheld : 9 


* 


( 325 ) 


- July, immediately as my viſitors had cu 
the doors upon me, J diſencumbered 0. 
ſelf of my irons, took my knife, and began 1 4 
my Herculean labour on the door. The 


52 8. 


firſt of the double doors that opened in- ; a 


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outwards ; there were therefore no other 
means left, but to cut the whole door 


Inceſſant and incredible Le mats this 


as every thing was to be done by feeling, 1 
being totally in the dark; the ſweat dropt, _ 


lacerated hands were one continued. wound; = 
Day-light appeared, I clambered over the 1 
door that was half cut away, and got up to 2 


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Kity paces diſtant; and the high paliſadoes 


[208 were in the ditch, and muſt be ſcaled 
before I could reach che rampart. Hope 


grew ſtronger; my efforts were redoubled. 
The firſt of the next double doors was attack - 


<d, which likewiſe opened inward, and was 
Joon "conquered. The ſun ſer before I had 
ended this, and the fourth was to be cut 
away as the ſecond. had been. Mͤy ſtrength 
AKailed Both my hands were raw: I reſted 


© Paik, began again, and had made a cut 


of a foot long when my. knife ſnapt, and 
the broken blade dropt to the ground. | 
„„ * * { 
God of Ornnipotence! what was I at this 
moment Was there, God of Mercies ! ! Was 
there ever creature of thine more juſtified 
than I in deſpair ? The moon ſhoneclear— 
I caſt a wild and diſtracted look up to heaven, 
fell on my knees, and, in the agony of my 
ſoul, fought comfort; bat no comfort could 
be found, nor religion, nor philoſophy had 
_ any to give. I curſed not Providence, I 
feared hot annihilation, I dared not Almighty 
Vengeance, J Good d the creator was th; dif. | 


0 327 ) EBERT 
- poſer of my fate ; and if he heaped aficio 2 


upon me he had not given me ſtrength. to 2 


_ ſupport, his Juſtice would not therefore | 
' puniſh me. To him, the Judge of the 
quick and . committed my ſoul, ſeized 
the broken knife, gaſhed through the veins 
of my left arm and foot, ſat myſelf tranquilly 
down, and ſaw the blood flow. Nature, 
overpowered, fainted, and I know not ho 
long I remained lumbering in this ſtate= * 
Suddenly 1 heard my own name, awoke, 
and again heard the words, © Baron Trenck! 2 

My anſwer was, © Who calls „And who 
indeed was it—who but my honeſt grenadier 


Get hardt my former faithful friend in the 


citadel.— The good, the kind fellow had 
55 got upon the rampart, that he might © com- * 
fort me. W 
« How: do you ud gy ſaid Grits: 4 
© Weltering in my blood, anſwered 1 


cc to-morrow you will find me dead.! CF 


e Why ſhould you die?” replied: he. It 1 
4 is much eaſier for you to eſcape hereithan 1 


. from the citadel. Here is no centinel, 


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= de leave the reſt to me. As often as I am 
don guard I will ſeek opportunity to ſpeak 


*":to you. In the whole Star-Fort there are 
«© but two centinels; the one at the entrance, 
< and the other at the guard- houſe. Do 


not geſpair, God will ſuccour you; truſt 


e to me. — The good man's Kindneſs and 
worse revived my hopes: : I ſaw the poſ- 
bil, of an eſcape. A ſecret joy diffuſed 
itſelf through. my foul—Limmetiately tore 
my mitt, bound up my wounds, and waited 
the approach of day; and the fun ſoon after 
one thrGugh the window to me with un- 
accuſtomed brightneſss. 


2 Let the reader judge how far 8 | 
how far the effect of Divine Providence, 
| | that in this dreadful hour my heart again 


received hope. Who was it ſent the honeſt 
' Gefhardt, at ſuch a moment, to my priſon! ? 
For, bad it not been for him, I had cer- 
3 when L awoke from my Numbers, F 
Sat more effc&ually, through. my. arteries. 

Till noon I had tinie to conſider what 


eie e be dons: yet, what cc ud be 
. | | done, 11 


VVV 
done, what expected, but that l ſhould now 
be much more cruelly treated, and even 
more inſupportably ironed than before; 

finding, as they muſt, the ! cut through,” 
and my tetters ſhaken off. IH 
After mature conficdtrationts 1, therefore; | 
mathe, the following reſolution ; which ſuc- 
ceeded happily, and even beyond my hopes. 
Before I Peres however, I will ſpeak. a” 
few word concerning my ſituation at this 
moment. It is impoſſible to deſeribe how 
N 1 was exhauſted. The priſon ſwam 
with blood ; and, certainly, but lite was 

left in my body. Wich painful wounds. 1 

ſwelled and torn hands, I there ſtood ſhirts | I 

leſs, felt an inclination to ſleep almoſt irtes 

ſiſtible, and ſcarcely had ſtrength to keep mx 

1 yet was J obliged to rouſe my ſelſ, chat 

I might execute my pla. 

With the bar that ſeparated; my bands 

1 looſened the bricks of my ſeat, W ich, 4 

being newly laid, was eaſily done ant 1 

_ Heaped them up in the middle of my — 5 1 

The inner door was quite open, and wich 

my chains I ſo; barricadoed the upper þ half wo 


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7 of the ſecond, as to prevent any one climb- 


ing over it. When noon came, and the 
© firſt of the doors was unlocked, all were 
5 aſtoniſhed to find the ſecond open. There 
I ſtood, a deſperate man, beſmeared with 
blood, the picture of horror, with a brick 
in one hand, and in the other my broken 
knife, crying as they approached, © Keep 
„ off, Mr. Major, keep off !——Tell the 
* governor I will live no longer in chains, 
“ and that here I ſtand, if he ſo pleaſes, to 
be ſhot; for ſo only will I be conquered. 
Here no man ſhell enter—I will deſtroy 
s all that approach; here are my e 
E * here will I die in deſpite of tyranny.” 
Tue major was terrified, Wanted reſolution, 
und made his report to the governor, I, 
mean time, ſat down on my bricks, to wait 
What might happen; my - ſecret intent, 
however, was not ſo* deſperate as it ap- 
& peared. I ſought vey to obtain a fayour- | 
E- able capitulation.” 7 
| The governor, e Borck, OY 
eame, attended by the town-major, * and 
lome officers, and entered the outward cet; 


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but ſprung back the moment he beheld 4 
figure like me, ſtanding with a btick and 
uplified arm. I repeated what I had told 
the major, and he immediately ordered ſix. 
grenadiers to force the door, The front 
cell was ſcarcely ſix feet broad, ſo that no 
more than two at a time could attack my 
intrenchment; and when they ſaw my 
threatening bricks ready to deſcend, they 
leaped, terrified, back. A ſhort pauſe en- 
fued, and the old town-major, with the 
chaplain, advanced toward the door to footh 
me: the converſation continued ſome time 
vwhoſe reaſons were moſt ſatisfactory, _— 4 
whoſe cauſe was the moſt juſt, I leave to he "i 
reader. The governor. grew angry, | and 
ordered a freſh attack. The firſt, a 
vas knocked down, and the reſt ran ene 
avoid my miſ files. 
The town-major again began a part 
ley. © For God's ſake, my dear Trenck, 23 : 
faid he, „ in What have 1 injufed —_— 
ec that you endeav ur to effect my ruin? 
* I muſt anſwer for your having, through" 
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. ded, I entreat you. Be appeaſed. 
* You are not without hope, not without 
friends.“ My anſwer was,—* But will 
- you "hot. load me with heavier 3 irons than 
4 before?“ | | | 
He went out, ſpoke with the governor, 
* and gave me his word of honour that the 
= Fir ſhould be-no farther noticed, -and-that 

every thing ſhould be exaghy reinſtated as 
formerly. 

Here ended the e and! my 
af citadel was taken. The condi- 
tion I was in was. viewed with pity; my 
wounds were examined, a ſurgeon ſent to 
H dieß them, another ſhirt was given me, 
| 2 the bricks, clotted with blood, removed: 
- E&meantime lay half dead on my mattreſs: - 
* my thirſt was excellive ; the ſurgeon order- 
ed me ſome wine; two centinels were ſta- 

Þ” tioned. in the front cell, and I was thus left 
four days in peace, unironed. Broth alſo 
E was given me daily; and how delicious 
| this was. to taſte, How much it revived 
and ſtrengthened me, is wholly impoſ- . 
q ble to deſcribe. Two days I lay in a 1 | 
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quenchable thirſt, - to drink whenever 1 
awoke. My feet and hands were ſwelled; 

tte pains in my back and limbs" were ex- 1 

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On the fifth 2 the Joon were a 3 

115 inner was entirely plated with iron, and 

J was fettered as before: perhaps they found: 

further cruelty unneceflary. The principal | 

chain, however, which faſtened me to the 
wall, like that I had before broken; Was 
thicker than the firſt. Except this, the ca- 2 | 

pitulation was ſtrictly kept. They deeply 1 

regretted that, without the king's expreſs | | 

commands, they could' not lighten my af⸗ 4 

fflictions; wiſhed me fortitude and Taue 

and barred up my doors. . 

It! is neceſſary I ſhould here desen my 

dreſs. My hands being fixed as Cr 1 ; 

aſunder, by an iron bar, and my feet chain- 
ed to the wall, I could neither put gu ſhirt. 
or ſtockings in the uſual mode; the ſhirtwas © 
therefore tied, as repreſented in the plate, 
and changed once a fortnight the coarſe 
ammunition ſtockings were buttonęd on the 
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E Fo - plated. :may{elf in this dreſs. of a malefactor, 
= 5 chained thus to the wall, in ſuch a dun- 
1 geon, vainly imploring mercy. or. juſtice, 
my conſcience void of reproach, my heart 
of guilt; when I reflected oH my former 
| Tplendor in Berlin and Moſcow, and com- 
| pared it with this ſad, this dreadful reverſe 
of deſtiny, I was funk in grief, or rouſed 


to; indignation, - that might have hurried 


the greateſt hero or philoſopher to mad- 
3 Y neſs. or deſpair. I felt what can only be 
1 4 IE : imagined by him who has ſuffered like mie; | 
_ after PET like me e if S can 


THE found. | 
Pride, the -aflnels of Dy EY Kher un- 


dt confidence I had in my own refolu- 
| - tion, and the labours of an inventive head, 
aud an iron body, theſe: only could have 
: 1 my life. Theſe bodily labours, 
- theſe continued 1nv« ations; and: projected hs, 


plans to obtain my freedom, preſerved my 

"health. Who would ſuppoſe that a man, 
neten T was, au find means of exer- 5. 
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dec of ſickneſs, by gout, ſtone, and other. 


the. ignominy of men, and the horrors of i in- 


4 cealed under the ground, and in the walls” 


conſcience. ' Often did I reflect how much 


leaping upward, I frequently put myſelf in 

a ſtrong perſpiration. After thus weary⸗ = 
ing myſelf, I flept ſoundly, and often | 
thought how. many generals, obliged to f 2 


and all the dangers of the field—how many 
- of thoſe who had plunged me into this den 
of miſery, would have been moſt glad, 
could they, like me, have ſlept with a quiet 


happier I was than thoſe. tortured on the "—- 


diſeaſes, terrible to man. How much haps 
pier was 'T in innocence, than the RT V 
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will appear I often had much money con- I 3 3 


ol my den; yet would I have given a 52 5 We L 
dred ducats for a morſel of bread, 
Could not have been procured, | "Money" 


4. 
Was to me uſeleſs. In this I reſembled: the | 
miſer Who hoards, yet lives in wretched- 
neſs, having no joy in gentle acts of bene- 
volence. As proudly might 1. delight my- 
elf th my hidden treaſure,” as ſuch mi- 
» fers ; nay more, for I was ſecure from rob- 
Had faſtidious pomp been my. pleaſure, 


I! might have imagined myſelf ſome old 


field-marſhbal bedridden, Who hears: two 
grenadier centinels at his door call «: Who 
« goes there ?” My honour, indeed, was 
Kill greater, for, during my laſt year's im- 
priſonment, my door was guarded with | 
no leſs than four. My vanity alſo might 


J ? have flattered itſelf ; I hence might con- 
E clude how high was the value ſet upon my 
- head, ſince all this trouble was taken to 
E* hold me in ſecurity. Certain it is chat in 
3 my chains I thought more rationally, more 
* nobly, reaſoned more philoſophically on 


8 man, his nature, his real, his imaginary: 


Wants, the effects of his ambition, his paſ- bo 


Hons, and ſaw. more diſtinctly his dream of 
a good, than | thoſe who. had — 7 


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vieh wears the chains of a court, and daily 


trembles for the loſs of what vice and cunning 4 | 1 


have acquired. Thoſe, who. have aſurpe * 
my Sclavonian eſtates, and feaſted ſumptu· 2 
_ ouſly from the ſervice! of. plate I had been 


ſweet an appetite as I my ammunition bread, - 
nor did their -high-flavoured | wines flow ſo 
bee as my cold water. - 517,421, 

Thus the man who thinks, rely OY 9 1 
of. heart, will find conſolation when undef 1 
the moſt dreadful of calamities, convinced,. 3. - =o | 
as he muſt be, that. thoſe apparently noſt : 


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YOUTH,” FOTO and imagining 
proſperity eternal, read my hiſtory inhibi. 
- ively; though” I ſhould - be in my grave 


15 Read feelingly, and bleſs my fleeping 
duſt, if it hath” ER thee wildom! or forti 
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' FATHER, PTY bis, 1 to aer 


3 5 children, J ke them, in blooming youth, 
* little prophebied of misfortune, which after 


fell thus heavy on me, and:by which I am 


A | even fill perſecuted 1 Say chat I had virtue, 
* 5 ambition; was educated in noble Principles; 
chat 1 laboured with all che zeal of enthuſi- 


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er, eyer y cter in whic hI found bread; -Y 
| that I. was, never, during. my life, ones, in- E i 1 


toxicated.; Was no gameſter, no night. g 
rambler, . no contemptible idler; chat wet T J Þ 
through enyy and arbitrary power, L have 43 
fallen to miſery, ſuch as none. but the worlt | = 
5 of criminals ought. to feel. 1 on VM 
1 BROTHER, fly. thoſe countries. where 275 ; | 
| che lagy-giver knows no law, where truth, * 
8 ang Winge 2 are puniſhed. as crimes : and, if = 
i Aly. you cannot, be it your endeavoutr to YZ 
em ain unknown, unnoticed; z in ſuch coun⸗ 5 3 
= tries feck. not favour or bonourable em. 
plz 5 elle will you become, when your! _ 
merit its are known, as 1 have been, the "vic 9 
4 tim, of flander and treachery ; the beben d 
1 of. Power: \ will perſecute you, and innocence I 
5 will not Higld you from the ſhafts of wick- * 
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| created me thus unchankfolly. Good men 
A have! alſo fouud, who have befriended me 
in misfortune, and there, where leaſt 1 
$ had claim, have I found them moſt. May 
my book aſſiſt thee in noble thoughts ; 
mayſt thou die as tranquilly as I ſhall ren- 
der vp my ſoul to appear before the Judge 
of me and my perſecutots. Be death but. 
thought, ': a tranſition from motion to reſt, 
E Few, are the delights of this world for 
= n Who, like me, has learned to know 
- Ph Murmur, not, deſpair not of Provi- 
| Fj "IR Me, through ſtorms, i it has brought 
Is to heaven; through many griefs, to ſelf. 
Knowledge; and through” priſons, to philo- 
ſophy. He only can tranquilly deſcend 
to anbihilation, Who finds reaſon not to re- 
bent he has once exiſted. My rudder broke 
4 185 not amid the rocks and quickſands, but 
a batk was caſt upon the ſtrand of know- 
|  kdge. Vet, even on theſe clear ſhores, 

are ampenerrable clouds. I have ſeen more. 
BEE 3 than it is ſuppoſed men ouglit Ws; 

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creaſe. J even grew weary of ſcience, and 4 
envied the blind -· born, or thoſe who, till 
death, have been wilfully hood winked. 5 
How often have I been aſked, ** What 
e didft thou ſee Ph —And when 1 anſwer- 
ed with ſincerity and truth, how. oſten F 
have I been. derided as a. lar, and been 5 ; 
perſecuted by thoſe who determined not 
to ſee themſelves, as an innovator, bog 


lar and raſh ! 


Sire, I farther fay to thee, wk thy. * 
ſcendants to ſeek the golden mean, and 
_ tay with Gellert—* Thie boy Fritz needs. | 
85 nothing: his ftupidiry | will enſure his 3 | 
* ſucceſs.” '—Enxamine our wealtby, and ; 


titled lords, what. their, abilities are. am 
What their honours, then, inquire. how they. 
vere attained, and, it thou cantly, diſcover. | 


in what true happineſs conſilts.” EIS 
Once more to my prion. 5 The 35 


of my eſcape, and the recovery of * 4 
I from this ſtate of deſpair, led me to gra- Y 
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F began to ' metiitate new plans. A centinel 
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might be more narrowly watched, and the 
5 "warricd meh of the Proffian ſtates were op- 
5 4 pointed to this duty, WO. as I ſball here- 
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= aiding my flight, than foreign fugitives. 
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and tie it at laſt with one hand.” My beard, 
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= 1 5 all which 1 repeated aloud ; 1 and 

: + had ſo ſtored my memory with them, that ; 


2 was enabled, after I had. obtained my free- 8 4 
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i exerciſe, e that wins ovherent: 
$ have been days of miſery, appeared but 28 
q 8 moment. The following narrative will 
if - ſhow how touch eſteem, how many friends, 
5 den compofitions procured me, even in 
M Ay dungeon, inſomuch that 1 obtained 
Aibt, paper, and, finally, freedom” itſelf. 
Por theſe have I to thank the induſtrious 
WW aequire ments of my youth; therefore, do 
ST counſel all my readers ſo to employ cheir 
time. Riches, honours, the favours of for- 
tune, may be ſhowered by monarchs upon 
tte moſt worthleſs; but monzrchs can give 
EF and take, ſay and unſay, raife and pull 
: down. Monarchs, however, can heither 
dive wiſdom nor virtue. Arbitrary power 
3 WIGS in the preſence of theſe, is foiled. 
i236 How. wiſely has Providence otdained 
Sie the endowments of induftry, learning, 
and ſcience, given by ourſelves, can- 
not be taken from: us; while, on the con- 5 
trary, What others beſtow is a fantaſtical 7 
Adream, from which any accident may 
awaken us! The wratli of Frederic of 
ee Le and 4 defeat armies ; ; but 


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could not jake from me the ſenſe of honour, | 
of 1 innocence, and, their ſweet concomitant, 
peace of mind—could not deprive ine of | 
fortitude and magnanimity: I defied his 
power, reſted on the juſtice of my cauſe, 
found in myſelf expedients wherewich jo. 
oppoſe him, was at length crowned: with. 
conqueſt, and came forth to the world, hes i 
martyr of ſuffering virtue. 1 L 
Some of my oppreſſors now rot in dis. 1 
| honourable graves. Others, alas 4 in Wi- 1 
enna, remained immured in houſes of .c cor= 2 
5 rection, as Krügel and Zetto, or beg their A 
bread, like Gravenitz and Doo. Nor ate 7 
the wealthy poſſeſſors of my eſtates "more HK 
| fortunate, but look down with ſhame wWhen- 1 i] 
ever J and my children appear. We I | 
erect, eſteemed, and honoured; While Sor, 
| Irjuſtice | is manifeſt to the whole world. 1 
| Young man, be induſtrious; 3 for, wiel 
| e can none of the treaſures. 1, hae 
deſcribed be purchaſed. Thy labour will | 1 
reward itſelf; then, when aſſaulted by wir. 3 
5” fortune, or even. miſery, learn of mer "IM | 
5 * Hh Toute: thou Heaps hes fila . 


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I Nill "HU to acquire wiſdom, "that in. x. old. 


age thou wayeſt find content and happi | 
* | ness. | ; 


The years in my dungeon 1 Pasted away 
as days, thoſe moments excepted when, 
| thioking on the great world, and the deeds 
1 9 great men, my ambition wWas rouſed: 
except when, contemplating the vileneſs of 
"my chains, and the, wretchedneſs of my fitu- 


: 5 ation, I laboured 55 liberty, and found my 


Tabours- endleſs and ineffectual: except 
while 1 remember the triumph of my ene- 


: * mies, and the ſplendor in which thoſe, by 
; whom I had been plundered, lived, Then, 
D indeed, did I experience intervals- that ap- 


x proached madneſs, deſpair, and horrox : : be- | 
1 bolding myſelf deſtitute of friend or pro- 


JF tector, the empreſs herſelf, for whoſe fake 
F 5 1 ſuffered, deſerting me; refleing « on paſt 


i | v times and paſt proſperity ; 3. remembering 


B how the good and virtuous, from the cruel 
n nature of my puniſhment, muſt be. obliged {> 


to conclude me 2 wretch and a villain, and 


4 that all means of juſtification. were « cut. off; * 
| * God! how did m heart beat! With ; 


MN _ whay. 


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bat violence! What vould 1 not have un- 
. in theſe ſuffering moments, to 

have put my enemies to ſhame! Vengeance 
and rage then roſe rebellious againſt pa- 


tience; long-ſuffering . philoſophy vaniſhed, 
and the poiſoned cup of Socrates. e 9 
have been the nectar of the gods. Bo 52330 15 bt I f 

Man deprived of hope is man deitroyed, -. | 

"Q found bur little: probability: i in all my plans 3 4 

and projects; yet did ] truſt that ſome. we} 
them ſhould ſucceed; yet did 1 confide in 
them, in my honeſt Gefhardt, and we To 
mould ſtill free myſelf from my chains. 

The greateſt of all my incitements to 
patient endurance was love. I had let 
behind me, in Vienna, a lady for whom 5 4 | 
the world ſtill was dear to me; her Ry | i q | f 

1 neither deſert nor afflict. To her ane 
11 ſiſter was my exiſtence ſtill necefe i 
„ Jury For their ſakes, who had loſt — 

Rs ſuffered ſo much for mine, would L ere 1 
my life: for them no difficulty, n ſufferings | 1 
was too great; yet them, alas! when Jones 23 
| defired liberty was reſtored, I found} B | 
I Þ in n their _” SPP Joys for which We — 


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$ borde ſo much, was no more to we. 
B | craſted, $5 3 ag n A 


About three 3 Wil my attempt to 
. the good Gef hardt firſt came to 
ſtand Wii otiae me; and the centinel 
they had ſo carefully ſet was indeed the only 
hope I could have of eſcape; for help muſt 
be had from without, or this was impoſſible. 
The effort I had made had excited too 


much ſurpriſe and alarm for me to paſs 
| 1 Without ſtrict examination; ſince, on the 
- Hint day after I was confined, I; had, in 
1 eighteen hours, ſo far broken through a 
1 priſon built purpoſely for myſelf, by a2 
combination of ſo many projectors, and 
| 8 with ſuch. extreme, precaution, which. pri- 
fon had eee been declared 5 
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SGefhardt eber had kom 5 poſt 5 


| F 2 a we had free opportunity of - converſing 
b together; for When I ſtood with ohe foot 


on any beditead, I could reach the I. 


BH through which light was admitted. * 


SGefhardt deſcribed © the Grazie o my 


4 | Wien: and our firſt Plas was to break 
In . 0 8 under 1 


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15 under the 3 ck: PH, had Co ö þ 
laid, and which he affirmed to be only wo | 
fer deep. 3 —_ 

Money was the Firſt. b et - 
Gef hardt was relieved during his guard, 9 
and returned bringing with him a; ſheer; ot. = 
paper rolled on a wire, which he paſſed "4 4 ' 
_ through my grating ; as he alſo.did a piece i 

of ſmall. wax: candle, ſome. burning ama- 1 . 
dow (a kind of tinder), a. match, and, a 
pen. I now het light, and 1 pricked my .- | 
finger, and wrote with my blood to my | A | 
faithful friend, captain Ruckhardt, at We © 
enna, deſcribed my ſituation in a few. words, = 
ſent, hi n an an acquittance for three thouſand 2 4 1 
florins on my revenues, and requeſted. he 
would «diſpoſe of a thouſand. florins to deg 8 
2 : fray the expences of his journey to. Gum. [ | 
mern, only two miles from Magdeburg. 
lere he was poſitively to, be on the Hm i 
of Auguſt. About noon, on this, fame 
day, he was to walk, with a jetter in his 
hand; and a man was there to meet hin = 

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| | qt; remit the two thouſand flotins, and 
| . return to Vienna a TH 
Is rcturned the written paper to Gef kardr 
L. '# by the Tame means it had been received, 
| gave him my inſtructions, and he ſent his 
wife with it to Gummern, by Whom 1 it was 


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| ae put in the poſt. 
| * My hopes daily roſe ; ; and as n as 
3 *Gefhardr mounted guard, ſo often did we 
L 7 A continue our projects. The 1 5th of Au- 
* giſt came, but it Was ſeme days before 
Gefhardt was again on guard; and, oh 
how did my heart palpitate when he came 
- abd" exclaimed,” All is right! ve have 
decteded!“ He returned in the evening, 
d we began to conſider by What means he 
a convey the- money to me. I could 
not, with my bands chained to an iron bar, 
reach the aperture of the window that ad- 
4 | | 15 ten air; beſide that it was too ſmall; It 
1 Wa therefore agreed that Gefhardt ſhould, 
on the nent guard, perform the office of 
4 : 4 ; cleaning my dungeon and that he then ſhould | 
| l 1- - convey- he money to me in che 1 8 A Ah \-j 


Was my aſtoniſhment when, inſtead of one, 


„„ 
This, luckily, was done. How great 


1 found two thouſand florins !* For I had. 


| permitted him to reſerve half to himſelf. 8 3 | 
a reward for his fidelity. 1 He, however, had 
kept but five 5 which 5 1 Fan 14 3 | | 
was enough. SI OS 5 I 2 
Worthy Gefhardt This was the i af 1 i 

a Pomeranian. grenadier! How rare are 9 IJ J 
ſuch examples! Be thy name and mine eyer 'Y 


with the great bring to my W a foul | 


ſoon ſee he never had ther” and that his 
ſoolich wife, three years after, ſuffered "I 
their means ; ; however, the ſuffered alone, 
for he ſoon marched to the field, and there 


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*s 55 neceſfary Was to "fre "I frogs 3 + 2 I 


united. Live thou while the memory of 
me ſhall live. Never did my hora: 11 6 


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Te is true FT afterward prevailed e on hi LN $; 
accept the Whole thoufand: but we MM - 


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3 to put my plan of burrowing under 
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ſetters... 10 accompliſh this, Gefhardt ſup- 
plied me with two ſmall files, and by the 
Aid of theſe, this labour, though great, Was 
| *ffected. 2a 

5 The cap, or ſtaple of the SE was 
: "made ſo wide, that I could draw i it forward 
à quarter of an inch. I filed the i iron which 
e through it on the inſide; and the 
more I filed this away, the farther I could 
draw the cap down, till at laſt the whole 
inſide iron, through which the chains paſſed, 
gs quite cut through; by this means [I 
ee ſlip off the ring, while the cap on the 
outſide continued whole; and it was im- 
= le to diſcover any cut, as only. the out- 
fule could be. examined. M y hands, by 
* continued efforts, 1 ſo compreſſed, as to be 
ble to draw them out of the hand- cuffs. I 
== then filed the hinge, and made a ſcrew-driver 
? of. one of the foot long flooring nails, by 

SE  - which I could take out the ſcrews at plea- 
pure, fo that at the time of examination no 
1885 proofs | would appear. The rim round my 
body was but a ſmall impediment, except the 9 
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5 this 1 removed, by filling an aperture in 
one of the links, which, at the neceſfary 
hour, F cloſed with bread, rubbed over with 
5 roſty. iron, firſt drying it by the heat of my 
body; and would wager any ſum that, 

| without ſtriking the chain, link by Uünk, 
with a hammer, no one, not in the bee, Y ; 
would have diſcovered this fracture. i 1 
The window was never ſtrictly examin- 
ed; I, therefore, drew the two ſtaples by i 
_ which the iron bars were fixed to the! wall. of J 
and which 1-daily: replaced, carefully oe. 8 
ering them over, I procured wire from 


SGefhardt, and tried how well I could nd. 1 
tate the inner grating : finding 1 ſucceeded | 3 


> _ 'tolerably, - I cut the real grating pry 
away, and ſubſtituted an artificial one of my 
oon fabricating, by which I obtained a fee 
communication with the outhde; additional 
flreſh alr, together with all neceſſary imple- 
ments, tinder and candles. That the ligt 
wight not be ſeen, I hung the coverhd | 
F 1 bed before the window, 0 8 8 1 could | 
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The: floor. of my NG was not of None, 


but oak planks, three inches thick, three 
beds of which, were laid erbſswiſe, and 

were faſtened to each other by nails, half an 
inch in diameter, and a foot long. Having 


worked round the head of: a nail, I made 
uſe of the hole at the end of the bar, which 


* 4 ſeparated . my hands, to draw it out, and 


this nail I ſharpened upon my tomb None 
into an excellent chiſel. gate. + | 
I now cut through tae 1 more I 


| . . Ws 1 inch in width, that I might Work down- 
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having drawn away a piece of 
board. Which was inſerted. two inches under 
the Wall, I cut this ſo as exaCtly to it: the 


all erevice it occaſioned, I: ſtopped up 


i h bread, and ſtrewed over with. duſt, ſo 


E 48 toß prevent all ſuſpicious appearance. 


My labour under this was continued with 
less e precaution, and I. had ſoon worked 

through my nine · inch planks. Under them 
bw came to a fine white ſand, on Which e 
Star · Fort was built. My chips 1 carefully 
"diſtributed beneath the boards. If I bad 
not help from . I could 2 0 4 


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[ ; for. to dig were utelet, 1 1 
could rid myfelf of my rubbiſh** Gel handt | 
ſupplied me ' with" ſome" ells of cloth, of 
| which T made long narrow bags, ftuffed . 
| them wich earth; and paſſed. them between 
e iron bars to Gef hardt, who, as ten 
as he was on guard, NO or M 8 8 23 
55 away their contents. e * = 
Furbiſhed with room to ſecrete Mette un- 
; der the floor, 1 obtained more inſtruments, | 
together with a pair of. piſtols, Powder, 
bell and a bayonet. 1; © ee, Hg $11:90 —_ 
I how diſcbvered: that che foundation of 1 
EY my priſon, -ipftead of two, was ſunken four _ 
feet deep. Time, labour, and patiencs, 9 
were all neceſſary to break. out, unheard, 1 
ind undifcoveted'; but few © things are im- _— 
Jon where reſolution is not wankirg = 
* "Tie" ble I made was obliged to be ur 9 
ber deep, correſponding with the founda- =_ 
tion, und: wide enough to Eneel and Roop 46 1 
. che lying down on the floor to woull, = 
the "continual ſtooping to "throw Out zehhe K 
"earth, the narrow ſpace in which” all Muſt _ 
te 5 N made the labour il. 
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IE ble; and, ne this daily labour, all 
of things were to be replaced, and my chains 
Flee again reſumed, which alone required ſome 
hours to effect. My greateſt aid was in the 
Wax candles, and light I had procured; 
but as Gefhardt ſtood centinel only once a 
fortnight, my work was much delayed: 
| The centinels were forbidden to ſpeak to 
me under pain of death; and I was too 
feacful, of being betrayed. to dare to ek ; 
new alliſtance. 
Being Fade a ſtove, 1 fuiered. much 
dis winter from cold, yet my heart was 
cheerful, as I faw the probability of free- 
dom; and all were aſtoniſhed to find me in 
ſuch good ſpirits. 
-  _Gefhardt alſo brought me e Apples of 
SY ons, chicfly conſiſting of ſauſages 
k and ſalt meats ready dreſſed, which in- 
dreaſed my ſtrength; and when 1 was not 
Rt digging 1: wrote ſatires and yerſes ; thus 
3 dime was employed, and 1 contented, even 
in priſon. 3 1 1 1 

— into ſecurity, an Aidan haps 
5 pencd, that will pe almoſt; . 


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and by v which every pay was neatly tat. 8 1 1 
Gef bart had deen e with me, | 1 EZ 
and was relieved in the merning. As F 
was rep! acing the window; which 1 was I g 
obliged to remove on theſe occaſions, it _— 
fell out of my hand, and three of the glaſs 
: panes were broken. Gethardt: was not 80 1 
return till guard was again relieved ;' Lad? 
therefore, no opportunity of ſpeaking with 5 
him, or concerting any mode ef repair. &-* 


8 5 remained nearly an hour conjecturing and 


heſitating; for certainly, had the broken FF Þ 


window been ſeen, as it was impoſſible! * 


„ fellow, have pity, not upon me, 


_ ſhould reach it when fettered, 4 fhould im- mo i 
mediately have been more rigidly examin - br - i 
_ ed, and the falſe grating muſt N been 1 
58 covered. | N 
| therefore came to a e 4 
IN ſpoke to the centinel, Who was: amuſing 
bdimmſelf with whiſtling, thus : My g60d 


upon your comrades, who, ſhould you. 
F refuſe, will certainly be executed: 1 i 
8 throw I "titty piltoles h 


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5 window, 56; you will do me a ſmall * 
« your.” He remained: ſome moments 


ſilent, and at laſt anſwered, in a low voice, 


„What! have you money then?“ -I im- 
mediately counted thirty piltoles, and 


"threw them through the window. He 
- aſked to know what he was to do: I told 


my difficulty, and gave him the ſize. of the 
panes; in paper. The. man, fortunately, 


5 Was bold and prudent... The door of the 


Paliſadocs, through the negligence of tlie 
officer, had not been ſhut that day : he 
"A on one of his comrades to ſtand 
-eentinel for him, during half an hour, while 
OY mean time, ran into the town, and 
procured the glaſs; on the receipt of Which 


I jnſtantly threw him ten more piſtoles. 
Before the hour of noon and viſitation 

Tape, every. thing was once more rein- 
ſttated, my glazery performed. to a, miracle, 
and the life of my worthy, Gefhardt pre- 
* ſeryed Such, 18 the power of money in 
= hy this world! This is a very remarkable i inci- 5 


gent, for I never ſpoke, after. to the wn 
Who did me this han F 


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Get hardts m may ea) be Ius. 


| gined: he, ſome days after; returned to his 1 4 
poſt, and was the more aſtoniſhed, as he! 14 


knew the centinel who Had done me this 
- good office; that he had-five childreh, and“ 
vas a man moſt to be depended: on by hi? 
officers of ay one in the whole e > 4 
company. =, ia +. oft TEE 
IL noW W my homes ah found ; 


it very poſſible to break out under the 1 
foundation: but Gefhardt had been ſo ter- 3 
rified by the late accident, that he ſtarted _ 1 


a thouſand difficulties, in proportion as m 


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end was more nearly accompliſhedy and) 


at the moment When I wiſhed to concert 


with him the means of flight, he perſiſt | : 3 
ed it was neceſſary to find additional heiß 
to eſcape in ſafety, and not bring both him 


and myſelf to - deſtruction. At. length 4 
we came to the following determination; 1 
which, however; after eight months ineel⸗ = 


ſant labour e Fenders my whole proj : Þ 


8 | abortive. D 11 51150 Do Ai 4 4 
I rote once more to ne Ant 4 
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ianty; and deſired he would again repair 
to Gummern, where he ſhould. wait fix 


the glacis of Kloſterbergen, at the time ap- 
pointed, every thing being prepared for 
flight. Within theſe ſix days, Gefhardt 
would have found means, either in rota- 
tion, or by exchanging the guard, to have 
been wach me. Alas! the ſweet hope of 
again beholding the face of the ſun, of 
once more obtaining my freedom, endured 
but chree days: : Providence thought pro- 
per otherwiſe to ordain. Geſhardt ſent 
His wife to Gummern with the letter, and 
chis filly woman told the poſt-maſter her 
huſband had à lawſuit at Vienna, that, 
| therefore, ſhe begged he would take par- 
3 Ws ticular care of the jetter; for which pur- 
poſe the. ee ten fix. heiler into his 
| = Hand. 
S This HR Iiberalit. 1 the 
© ſuſpicions of the Saxon ,poſt-maſter, who, 
| therefore, opened the letter, read the con- 
 xents,. and inſtead of ſending, it to Vienna, 


3 WS; at leaſt; to "the general pers; at 
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ſeweral nights, with two ſpare horſes, on 


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1 361 * | 
Dreſden, he preferred the traitorous 6 of 
taking it himſelf to the governor of Mag- 
deburg, who then, as at preſent, was prince i 
Ferdinand of Brunſwick. s TeV = 

What were my terrors, what my Solent ; ; 
when I beheld the prince himſelf, about 8 
three o'clock in the afternoon, enter. my _ 
priſon, with his attendants, preſent my let- 
ter, and aſk, in an authoritative voice, who 
had carried it to Gummern;—My anſwer i 
was, I knew not. Strict ſearch Was 11 
mediately made, by ſmiths, carpe ters, 
maſons ; and, after half. an hounſay e) ami 
tion, they diſcovered neither Me, nor 
the manner in which I diſencumbered my- 
ſelf of my chains; they only ſaw that the 
middle grating, in the aperture where the 
light was admitted, had been removed. 
| Fhis was boarded up the next day, and oniyx 
à ſimall ee llt 1 about ſix inches 


er n di 00 ken 4 „ = 
ſited 1 had never Di the, Sore his = 
had rendered me his ſezvice, nor. aſked, his 
Name. Seeing his attempts all dna. _—_ 
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the: governor, in a milder tone, faid, * Nou 
< have ever complained, baron Trenck, of 
not having hitherto been legally ſentenced, 
* or heard in your own defence; I give 
1 you my word of honour this you ſhall 
e be, and, alſo, that you ſhall be releaſed 
. © from your fetters, if you will only tell me 
cho took your letter.“ To this I re- 


bplied With all the fortitude of innocence, 
4 — Every body knows, my lord, I have 
3 En ne ver r deferred thefreatment” I have met 
| - my y. My heart is irre- 
E Wo as kek to recover my liberty 
a 1. OE in my power; but were 
: 1 1 7 IP of betraying the man” whoſe 


oi compaſſion has induced him to ſuccour 
* my -diftreſs,—were I the coward: that 
= | could purehaſe happineſs at his expence, 
eI then ſhould, indeed, deſerve to, wear 
* theſe” chains with which I am loaded. 
For myſelf, do with me what you pleaſe; 
; E yet remember Lam not wholly deſtitute, 
2 am ſtin a captain in the imperial ſer- 
vice, and a nee, A the houſe of 
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363 


Prince Ferdinand ſtood, for a moment, 
unable to anſwer, then renewed his threats, 
and left my dungeon. I have been ſince 
told that, when he was out of hearing, he 
ſaid to thoſe round him, * I pity his hard ⁵ 
ec fate, and cannot but admire his e - 
of mad!” - | \ +» 
' I muſt here ren that, when we 1. q 
member the uſual circumſpection of this ü 
great man, we are obliged to wonder at his 
W mer in holding a converſation . 
ſuch a kind with me, which laſt& K 
derable time, in the preſence of . he 
The ſoldiers of the whole gart I- 
erward the utmoſt confidence, as ; they were 1 
convinced I would not meanly devote others JF 
to deſtruction, that I might benefit myſelf. YM 
This was the way to gain me eſteem and TIP 4 | 
intercourſe among the men, eſpecially as 
the duke had faid he knew I muſt have 
money concealed, for rr 1 _ diſtributed - 
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He had ſcarcely born; Gone an boun bo— 
| oli 1 heard a noiſe near my priſon. - of 
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EN ing, and learned a grenadier had _ 


( 364 ) 


himſelf to the paliſadoes of my priſon! 
ö The officer of the guard, and the town- 
major, again entered my dungeon, to fetch 
4 lantern they had forgotten; and the offi- 
cer, at going out, told me, in a whiſper, 
« One of your aſſociates has 2 225 

ume, re) 25 
At! is ienpoftble to impart my terror or 
3 bons, believed it could be only my 
E * kind, my honeſt Gefhardr. After many 
8 gloom thoughts, and lamenting the un- 
happy U et fo worthy a fellow, I began to 
Y the prince had promiſed me, 


E- Tecollebahat 
ii 1 wonkd diſcover my accomplice. | 
E fnocked at the door, deſired to ſpeak to the 
Officer; he came to the window, and aſked 
What I wanted? I requeſted he would in- 
form the governor that, if he would ſend me 
- Tight, pen, ink, and vp 1 would diſcover 
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Theſe were accordingly Fay an hour's 
2 ene granted; the door was ſhut; and 
I left alone. I ſat myſelf down, began to 
Vrite on my night- table, and was about to 

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inſert the name of Gef hardt, but my blood 
thrilled, and ſhrunk back to my heart. I 


ſhuddered, roſe, went to the aperture of the 


window, and called, te Is there no man who, 
« in compaſſion, will tell me the name of 
him who has hanged himſelf, that I may 
« deliver many others from deſtruction?ꝰ 
The window was not nailed up till the next 
day; I therefore wrapped five piſtoles in a 


paper, threw them out, called to the centi- 


nel, and ſaid, Friend, take theſe; and 
& ſave thy comrades; or, 89, betray me, and 


« bring e innocent Mood: upon thy 
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The 3 was a up; * . 3 I : = 
filence enſued; I heard ſighs, and preſently. 9 
after, a low voice ſaid, His name is 


de 2 he belonged to the: company ol 4 3 f 


* Ripps. I had never heard the name 1 | 
before, or knows the man; but I, however, 


immediately wrote Schütz, inſtead of Ge 
hardt. Having finiſhed the 2 ictter, L called! 
the lieutenant, who took that and the light _ 


away, and again barred up the door of 4 1 j 
dungeon. The duke, however, ie” > 2 


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there muſt be ſome colluſion,” and every 
thing remained in the fame ſtate ; I obtained 
neither hearing nor eourt- martial. I learned, 

in the ſequel, the following circumſtances, 
which will difplay the uch WE: this * 
rently ineredible ſtory... 5 Of 
White 1 was end in the ied, 2 
centinel came to the poſt under my window, 
curſed and blaſphemed, exclaimed aloud 
Damn the Pruſſian ſervice! If Trenck 
e on knew my mind, he would not long 
cominde in his infernal hole !” J entered 
E into diſcourſe with him, and he told me if I 
could give him money to purchaſe a boat, 
I I” in which be might croſs the Elbe, he would 
- Soon make of hop Py pans ane * me 
free. . t. 
Money at * b e hat 1 
SE r him 4 diamond ſhirt buckle, worth 
te Hundred florins, which 1 had-concealed. 

1 bever heard more from this man; he 
. to me no more. He often ſtood cen- 

tinel over me, which I knew. by his Weſt⸗ 

I  «-:w_d dialect; and as often e- 


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This Schütz muſt have ſold my buckle, 
and let his riches be ſeen; for, when the 
duke left me, the lieutenant on guard ſaid 
to him You mult certainly be the raſcal 
e who carried. Trenck's letter; you have, 
e for ſome time paſt, ſpent much money, 
* and we have ſeen: you with Jouis-d"ors; 
„How came you by them?“ Schütz Was 
terrified ; his conſcience accuſed him; he : 
imagined I ſhould betray him, knowing be © 

| had deceived me. He, therefore, in E 
firſt agonies of deſpair, came to the palifes 
does, and hung bimſelf dale the doo . 
my dungeon. ss it 2 Fs 1 
How wonderful is chat hand of Pro, 1 
dence! The wicked man fell a ſacrifice; ts 4 
his crime, after having eſcaped 'a whol 
year, and the faithful, the benseſer 
hearted Gef hardt, was thereby ſaved. 3 
Ihe centinels were now erb e 19 I 
any intercourſe with them might be reiz 'Y 
dered more difficult. Gefhardt again 
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bey o without! danger, to ſpeak a few words : 


he thanked me for having preſerved him, 
wiſhed me better fortune, and told me the 


2 in 4 few _ would take the 


This was 6 qreadfed news: my hols plan 


% debe at a breath. I, however, 


ſoon- recovered freſn hopes. The hole 1 


had ſunken was not diſcovered: I had 


five hundred ee * and ee 
ments. 2 1 5 
The 8 war broke out about a 


week after, and the regiments took the field. 


Major Weyner came, for the laſt time, and 
committed me to the care of the new major 
of the militia, Bruckhauſen, who was one 
of the moſt ſurly and ſtupid of men. I 
ſhall often have oecuilion' 3 to mention this 
man. | F F 20119 61:1 
All . majors 4054 lieutenants = the 
OT wh had treated me with compaſſion 


and eſteem; now departed; and I became 


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An old priſoner in a new world.” I acquired 
greater confidence, however, by remember; 


W that both officers wa men 1n the militia 5 


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were much eaſier to gain over than in the 


regulars; the truth of which pine was 


ſoon — to me. Ne 
Four lieutenants were appainred; with 
their men, to mount guard at the Star- Fort 
in turn; and, before a year had pallet three 
of them were in my intereſt. 

The regiments had ſcarcely acts the 
field ere the new governor, general Borck, 


entered my priſbn like what he was, an im- 


perious, cruel.tyrant. The king, in giving 
him the command, had informed him he 
muſt anſwer for my perſon with his head; 
he therefore had full power to treat me with. 
whatever ſeverity he pleaſed. 1 
Borck was a ſtupid man, ah an > feeling 
| heart, the ſlave of deſpotic orders, and, 


as often: as he thought it poſſible I =. = 1 | 


rid myſelf _of my. fetters, and eſcape, NS 
heart palpitated with fear. In addition o 
this, he conſidered me as the vileſt of meu 


_  and+traitors, ſeeing his king had condemngfb) 1 4 


me to impriſonment ſo cruel; and his bar. 
aan Wane me; was thus the effect. „ 
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and meanneſs of foul. He en- 
tered my dungeon, not as an officer to viſit 
a brother officer in miſery, but as an execu- 
tioner to a felon. Smiths then made their 
appearance, and a monſtrous iron collar, of 
a hand's breadth, was put round my neck, 
and connected with the chains of the feet 
by additional heavy links; as may be ſeen 
in the plate. My window was walled up, 


3 5 r a ſmall air-hole. He even, at length, 


tdok away my bed, gave me no ſtraw, 


and quitted me with a. thouſand” revilings 


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i E 2 muſt imagine. 
oonfiſted in the ability 1 ſtill had to diſen- 
=p ber myſelf of all the irons that were 
| = eonnected with the ancle-rims, and the 
| * proviſion 1 1 ws * lien, paper, and imple- 


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on the empreſs- queen, her whole army, 


and myſelf. In words, however, I was 
- Hietle-1 in his debt; and he was * even 
to o müdes. . 

What my ſuuation was 8 this a: 
ene load of tyranny, and the command 


Fo. a man fo void of human pity, the reader 


My greateſt good fortune 


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ments; and BE... it Was, apparently} I 


impoſſible I ſhould break out undiſcoveted 
by both centinels, yet had 1 che remaining 


hope of gaining ſome officer, by ung 


who, as in Glatz, ſhould aſſiſt my eſcape. a 
Had the commands of the king been 


 Iiterally obeyed, eſcape would have been 


wholly impoſſible ; for, by this, all commits 


nication would have been cut totally off 7 
with the centinels. To this effect the four | 


keys of the four doors were” each to be 
kept by different perſons; ohe with the 
governor, another with the town- major, the 
third with the major of the daß,, an! the 
fourth with the lieutenant of the Suardl. 
I never could have found opportunity to 


| have ſpoken with any one of them ſingliy. 


Theſe commands, at firſt, were rigid oh. 


ſerved, with this exception, that the" "864 N 8 q ; 


vernor made his appearance only” every, 


Week. Magdeburg became ſo full of. pri... 3 
ſoners, that the town-major was ob! iged to-- IJ 
deliver up his key to the major of the day, 
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ſided, the-citadel being an Engliſh mile and 
a half diſtant from the Star- Fort. 
General Walrabe®, who had been a 
P ever ſince the year 1746, was alſo 
at the Star-F ort, but he had apartments, 
and three thouſand rix-dollars a year. 
The major of the day and the officers of che 
guard dined with him daily, and generally 
ſtaid till evening. Either from compaſſion, 
or a concurrence of fortunate circumſtances, 
I theſe gentlemen entruſted the keys to the 

. 1 on guard, * which means I 


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1 = ere hs Walrabe) trad dagen NET ſuſpected 
1 tk partiality to Auſtria, he being a bigotted catholic. 


He was at length betrayed by a miſtreſs, for whoſe 
huſband (for the was married) he had obtained the 
_ dignity of counſellor. Frederic, when he granted the 
title, told Walrave it certainly became the miſtreſs of 


1] a general to have a counſellor for a huſband. He was, 


ſuperintendant of the fortifications, and Was confined, 
not, according to Fiſcher, i in 1746, but in 1748, in a 
32852 himſelf had built at Magdeburg. T. 3 


See Fiſcher Gelchitchte Fried. 3K. 
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could ſpeak wich each of them alone 10 
they made their viſit, and they themſelves, 
at length, ſought theſe opportunities. 1 


conſequent undertakings I ſhall. relate with, 


all brevity, that I may not fatigue the read- 
er with all the arts and inventions of a 


wretched priſoner endeavouring to eſcape. 


Borcłk had ſelected three majors and four 


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lieutenants only for this ſervice, as thoſe he 


beſt could truſt. My ſituation was wy 
deplorable. | The enormous iron round my 


neck pained me, and prevented motion * | 


and I durſt not attempt to diſengage my - 
ſelf from the pendent chains till I had, for, 
ſome months, carefully obſerved the mode 
of their examination, and which parts they 
ſuppoſed were perfectly ſecure. The cru-. 


elty of depriving me of my bed vas ſtill 


greater: I was obliged to ſit upon the bare 
ground, and lean with my head againſt, the 
damp wall. The chains that deſce nd 


from the neck- collar were obliged to be 


ſupported firſt with one hand, and then 
with the other; for, if thrown behind, they: 
would have ſtrangled me, and, if hanging. 


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| forward, occaſioned moſt exceſſive. head- 
achs. The bar between my hands held 
one down while leaning on my elbow ; 1 
ſupported with the other my chains; and 
this fo benumbed the muſcles: and prevent- 
| ed circulation, that I could perceive my 
arms ſenfibly waſte away. The little ſleep 
I could have in ſuch a ſituation may eaſily 
be ſuppoſed; and, at length, body and 
mind funk under this accumulation of mi- 
_ ferable On and I fell ul. of a burying 
|. eg 299 
The tyrant Borck was 1 he 
wiſhed to expedite my death, and rid him- 
ſelf of his troubles and his terrors. Here 
did 1 experience what was the lament- 
able condition of a ſick priſoner, with- 
out bed, refreſhment, or aid from humian 
being. Reaſon, \ fortitude, heroiſm, all the 
noble qualities of the mind, decay when 
the corporeal faculties are diſeaſed; and the 
remembrance of my fufferings, at this 
dreadful moment, ſtill agitates, till inflames, 
my blood, ſo as almoſt to prevent an emp | 
* were. | 


Yet 


Com) Mi "A 
Vet hope had not totally forſaken me. 


Deliverance feemed poſſible, eſpeciallʒi 


ſhould peace enſue; and I ſuſtained, per- 
haps what mortal man never bore, except 


myſelf, being, as I was, provided wies | I 
or e ſuch immediate may of . i 
"o#:conticivbd liar 60 were” 4 


was ſo: reduced, at laſt, that I had ſcarcely 


who fits two months on the bare ground in 
a dungeon fo damp, ſo dark, ſo horrible, 
without bed or ſtraw, his limbs loaded 
mine were, with no- refreſhment but dry: 


ammunition- bread, without fo much as a 
drop of broth, without phy ſic, without con- 


ſoling friend, and who, under all theſe afflics 


tions, muſt truſt, for his 8 to the OY 5 


forts of nature alone 775 


Sickneſs itſeif is ſufficient t to bumbie 1 YT, f f 
mightieſt mind; what then is fick neſs, win 


ſuch addition of torment? The burning 
fever, the violent head- achs, my neck ſwell 


ed and inflamed = ou i 


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me almoſt to madneſs. The fever, and the 
 fetters, together, flayed my body ſo that it 
appeared like one continued wound 
Enough! Enough The malefactor extend- 
ed living on the wheel, to whom the cruel 
executioner refuſes the laſt ſtroke, the blow 
of death, muſt yet, in ſome ſhort period, 
expire: he ſuffers nothing I did not then 
ſuffer, and theſe my excruciating pangs con- 
unued two dreadful months Vet, can 
it be ſuppoſed? There came a day |——A 
3 day of horror, when theſe mortal pangs 
1 „ imagination, increaſed! I ſat, 
| ſcorched with this intolerable fever, in 
which nature and death were contending, 
and, when attempting to quench my burn- 
Z 5 ing entrails with cold water, the Jug: drop- 
ped from my feeble. hands, and broke! I 
had four-and-twenty hours to remain with- 
# out water. So intolerable, : ſo devouring, 
was my thirſt, I could have drank human 
blood Ay, in my madneſs, had 1 it t been the 
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LW Wing vod L have ſeiſed 825 piſtols, 
Mt 5 £ | but 


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58 ſtrength had forſaken me; could not 
open the wt L 4 dae to render ſo 
one t 7 40119: 303 eee 
My da next 26 apple n 
at laſt I lay motionleſs, with my tongue 
out of my mouth. They "ith water 
down my throat, and found life. 4707 
On God! Oh God! How: „ 
licious, how exquiſite, was this water = Mx 
inſatiable thirſt ſoon emptied the jug a the 


filled it anew, bade me farewell, hoped 7 


death would ſoon relieve an moe ſoffer. 7 
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Ihe lamentable Foie in a 1:lays+at 
. became ſo much the ſubject of 
general converſation, that all the ladies of 
the town united with the officers, and pre: 
vailed on the oo Baek, c reſtore me 


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Oh Miene 1 ht are * operaty "It 
| Hein the day I drank. water. in n ſuch. — 

| gathered -ſtrength, and, to the aſtoniſumen Is 
of every one, ſoon recovered. IL had - 
moved the heart of the officer who inſpect- 


. r priſon ; and, after fix- months, f 


FLY Ras 5 . cruel 


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el montls; of added nee * of 
op again began co davvn. 
One of the majors of the as utes 
" is) key to lieutenant: Sonntag, who came 
alone, ſpoke in confidence, and related his 
don ſituation, complained of his debts, his 
= poverty, his neceſſities; and I made him a 
 - preſent of twenty-five louis-d'ors, for which 
he was ſo grateful 1 our n * 
VUnſhaken. nien 
Tue three 8 all al 
mes and would. fit hours with me, when a 
| certain major had the inſpection; and he 
himſelf, after à time, would even paſs half 
the day with me. He, too, was poor; and 
I gave him a draft for three ae on" 
hence new projects took birth. 
+ © © Money became neceſſary; 1: Bd diert 
ed all I poſſeſſed, a hundred florins 'except- 
dc among the officers. The eldeſt ſon of 
captain K n, who officiated as major, 
had been caſhiered; his father complained 1 
to me of his diſtreſs, and I ſent him to my 
filter, not far from Berlin, from whom he re- ; A 1 
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4 related her joy at hearing from me. He 
found her exceedingly- ill; and the inform< 


ed me; in a few lines, that my misfortunes, 


and the treachery of Weingarten, had en- 


tailed poverty upon her, and an illneſs 
which had endured more than two years 
She wiſned me a happy deliverance from 
my chains, and, in expectation of death, 

committed her children to my protettiom 


She, however, grew better, and married s 
ſecond time, colonel Pape ; but died inis 2 I 
year 1758. I ſhall forbear: to relate-tier 
hiſtory; it indeed does no honout to we 
_ aſhes of Frederic, and would but leſs diſ- 


poſe my own heart to forgiveneſs, by re. 


viving the memory of her nn, ang 
griefs. * wn th $ > for 22033 s i 


K — 1 ne hain wks oY money; 


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vrote to the counteſs Beſtuchef, alſo to the 
| Grand Duke, afterwards Peter III. recomms 


mended the young ſoldier, and encreated | 


every poſſible ſuccour for myſelf. ein 
K- departed, through {adult 
for Peterſburg, where, in conſequence of _ 


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my. recommendation, he became a captain, 
and in a ſhort time a major. He took his 
3 meaſures 0 well, that 1 5 by the intervention 
of his father, and a Hamburg merchant, 

received two thouſand rubles from the 
ecounteſs, while the ſervice: he rendered me 

made his own fortune in Ruſſia. | 

Jo old K —— n, who was as poor as he 
was honeſt, I gave three hundred ducats; 
and he, till death, continued my grateful 
fſtiend. Ldiftributed nearly as much to the 
5 other officers ;- and matters proceeded ſo 

far, that lieutenant Glotin gave back the 
_ keys to ihe major without locking my priſon, 
himſelf paſſing half the night with me. 

Money was given to the guard to drink; 
and thus every thing ſucceeded to my .wiſh, 

and the tyrant Borck was deceived- I had 
E a ſupply of light; had ee ee 
and my days paſſed ſwiſtly away. 1 read, I 
© wrote, I buſied myſelf fo thoroughly that I 
dulmoſt forgot I was a priſoner. When 

indeed the ſurly, dull blockhead ma- [ 
= jor Bruckhauſen, had the inſpection, | 
pb "__ lng: mult be carefully. reinſtated. 

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| Major Z——,” the ſecond e i 
alſo -wholly mine. He was particularly at- 3 
tached to me; for I had promiſed to marry 
his / daughter, and, ſhould 1 die! in priſonz 
e eee a N hs Wit 8 
Wo florins? C 1 anvil 
ende 0 Ie Kale 10 d- cuffs 
made for me, that were ſo wide I could eaſi- 
h draw my hands out; the lieutenants — 
examined my irons; the new bade 
were made perfectly ſimilar to the old, and 
Bruckhauſen had too m nn to e. 
mark Shy difference. oy 
The remainder of my chains; L could it. - 
ſnd. myſelf. of at pieafure!; When T 
exereiſed myſelf, J held them in my hands, 
that the centinels might be deceived by weir 


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; clanking. The neck iron was the ee 

1 Jdurſt not remove; it was, likewiſe, too 

3 ſttrongly rivetted. I filed through the u . JI 
1 link of the pendant chain however,; by nien 

| means I could take. it off, and this I. e 

n ed with e in the manner; ns ; men- 1 


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1 ami chſe Lags cb- 
dine fauſages and cold meat, and thus my 
tuation, bad as it ſtill was, became leſs mi- 


ſerable.—Liberty, ſtill, however, was moſt 


+ Uefirable : but, alas! not one of the three 


heutenants had the courage of a Schell: 
Saxony too was in the hands of the Pruſſians, 
and flight, therefore, more dangerous.— 


Perſuaſion was in vain, with men determin- 
end to riſt nothing, but, if they went, to go 


in-ſafety." Will, indeed, was not wanting 


in Glotin and Sonntag; but the firſt was a 


poltroon, and the latter a man of ſeruples, 


Vd lene choüght this ſtep inight be the 


ruin of his brother in Berlin. 
The centinels were doubled, nn 


| hy: eſcape through- my hole, which had been 


two years dug, could not, unperceived by 


them, be effected; ſtill leſs could I, in face 


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of the guard; clamber the-twelve-feet high 


paliſadoes. The following labour * 


though Hereulean, was undertaken. ks 


3 Lieutenant Sonntag, Gnekſringirhs "TTY oy 
| val between the hole I had dug and the | 


enttance of the gallery in the Prineipal 
frampart, 


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| rampart; found it to be ds n 


Into this, it was poſſible, I might, by mining. 
penetrate. The difficulty of the enterptiſe 


. was leſſened by the nature of the grounds 


a fine white ſand. Could I reach the gallery 


my freedom was certain. I had been informs 


ed hom many ſteps to the right or left mut 
be taken, to find the door that led to the 


ſecond rampart: and, on the day when I 


ſhould be ready for flight, the officer was, 


ſecretly, to leave this door open. I had 


light, and mining tools, and I was further 


to rely on money and my own diſeretion. 


I began and continued this labqur about 
ſix months. I have already noticed the {1 388 4 


difficulty of ſcraping out the earth with_. 
my hands. The noiſe of inſtruments would 
have been heard by the centinels; I. had 
ſcarcely mined beyond. my _ dungeon-wall 
before I diſcovered the foundation af the 
rampart was not more than a foot deep4iis 


capital error, certainly, in ſo impoxtant a 


fortreſs, My labour became the lighter, 8. 
1 9g remove the foundation ſtones. of. m 
r | | Gang, 


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e not obliged to mine ſo 
2547 moth; at- eſt; picbeeded ſo- rapidly, 
that, While I had room to throw back my 


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fand, I was able, in one night, to gain 


- three! feet; but ere I had proceeded ten 


feet I diſcovered all my difficulties. Be- 
fore I could continue my work, T was 
obliged to make room for © myſelf, by 


- emptying the ſand out of my hole upon 
the floor of the priſon, and this itſelf was 
an employment of ſome hours. The ſand 
was obliged to be thrown out by the hand, 


e aſter it thus lay heaped in my priſon, 


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muſt be again returned into the hole: and 1 
Have calculated that, after I had proceeded 
twenty feet; I was obliged to creep under 
ground, in my hole, from fifteen hundred 
10 two thouſand fathoms, within twenty- 


tour hours, in the removal and replacing of 

te ſand. This labour ended, care was to 
be taken that, in none of the crevices of the 
5 8 there might be any appearance of this 


fine whire fand. The e was next to 
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be exactly replaced, and my chains to be 1 
reſumed; So ſevere was the fatigue of one 
day, in this mode, that was nec obliged” 

to reſt che three following. 

Jo reduce my labour as c bollble, . 
Luas conſtrained to make the" paſſage ſo 
ſmall that my body only had ſpace to paſs, 
and I had not room to draw my arm back 
to my head. The work too muſt all be done. 
naked, otherwiſe the dirtineſs of my ſhitrt 
muſt have been femarked: the fand was 
wet, water being found at the depth of four 
feet, here the ſtratum of gravel began. 
At length the expedient of fand- bags o 
curred to me, by which it might be re- 
moved out and in more expeditiouſly. A 
obtained linen from the officers, but not in 
ſufficient quantities; ſuſpicions would have 
been excited at obſerving ſo much linen 1 
brought into the priſon. At laſt I teck y 
eh and the ticking; that incloſed 1 | 
ſtrawñ and cut them up for ſand-bags, WR n 5 N 4 g 
care to lie down on my bed, as if 5 when © — 7 
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came ſo intolerable, as to incite deſpondency. 
I frequently ſat contemplating the heaps of 
ſand, during a momentary reſpite from 


3 Work, and, thinking it impoſſible I could 


have ſtrength or time again to replace all 
things as they were, reſolving patiently to 
Wait the conſequence, and leave every thing 
in its preſent diſorder. No; I can aſſure 
the reader that, to effect concealment, I have 


E 38 ſcarcely had time, in twenty-four hours, to 
. ſit down and eat a morſel of bread.—Recol-. 


lecting, however, the prodigious efforts, and 


E. all the progreſs I had made, hope would 


| © again revive, and exhauſted ſtrength return; 
3 again would 1 begin my labours, that I 


might preſerve my ſecret and my expecta- 


tions: yet has it frequently happened that 


my viſitors have entered a few minutes after 
I had reinſtated every thing in its place. 


When my work was within ſix or ſeven 

feet of being accompliſhed; a new misfor- 
tune happened, that at once fruſtrated all 
= Further attempts. I worked, as I have ſaid, 
3 under the foundation of the rampart, near - 
- where the centinels ſtood, 1. could diſen- 
b a . cumber 


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aber myſelf of my fetters, except m 1 
neck - collar and its pendent chain. This, as 
I worked, though it had been. faſtened, got 
looſe, and the clanking was heard by one of _ 
the centinels about fifteen feet from my dun- 
geon. The officer was called, they laid der; 
ears to the ground, and heard me as i went” 
backward and forward to bring my earth 
bags. This was reported the next day, and 
the major, who was my beſt friend, with the 
town=major, and a ſmith and maſon, ene 
my priſon. I was terrified. The lieutenant, 
by a ſign, gave me to underſtand I was dif 
covered. An examination was begun, bür 
the officers would not ſee, and the ſmit] Wand 
maſon found every thing, as they thoughr, © "1 I 
ſafe. Had they examined my bed, the 
een have ſeen * en 5 ER. were I 
The town majot was a dull man. was * | 
ee the thing was impoſſible, 
to the centinel, Blockhead! 8 * A 
< -heard ſoms mole under ground, and not 
„ Trenck. How, indeed, could it be chat 


She ſhould work under ground at. ſuch a 
wid FED. S2 8 © diſtance, 


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e diſtance from his ned u Here the 


ſcrutiny ended. Inn e! 
There was now no time ſor delay.” "Had 
"they altered their hour of coming, they 


3 1 S mut have found me at work; but this, dur- 


ing ten years, never happened, for the: go- 
vernor and town-major were ſtupid men; 3 
and the others, withing me all ſucceſs, were 


wilfully blind. In a few days I could have 


broken out; but, when ready, I was deſirous 
to wait for the viſitation-day of the man who 


had treated me ſo tyrannically, Bruckhauſen, 


that his own negligence might be evident. 


u this man, though he wanted under. 
* ſtanding, did not want good fortune. He 
wuaas ill for ſome time, and his duty e 


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over, the doors were no ſooner barred than 
TY I began my ſuppoſed laſt labour. I had 


only three feet farther to — and it 


the and, having room enough 420 it 
behind me. What my .anxiety was, what 


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the lame centimel, who had heard4ne before, 1 
mould be that day on guard. He was 
piqued, by vanity, to prove he was not the MY 
blockhead he had been called: he, therefore, _ 
again laid his ear to the ground, and again 
bueard me burrowing. He called his com- 


rades firſt, next the major: he came, and 


heard me likewiſe; accordingly they went 
without the paliſadoes, and heard me work | 


ing near the door, at which'place I was to * 


18 break into the gallery. This door they in- 3 
mediately opened, entered the gallery with i : ö 
lanthorns, and waited to catch the hunted. 2 


fox, when unearthed. 
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perceived a light, and ſaw the heads f 
thoſe who were expecting me. This was, 
indeed, a thunder ftroke !—I crept back, 


made my way through the ſand I had caſt 

behind me, and waited my fate with ſhud- 
1 dering! I had till the preſence of mind to 
cConceal my piſtols, candles, paper; and 
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