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ONE: Frederick.��All the friends of Fritz were treated by the infuriate father with the most cruel severity. No mercy was shown to any one who had ever given the slightest indication of sympathy with the Crown Prince. A bookseller, who had furnished Fritz with French books, was cruelly exiled to the remote shores of the Baltic, on the extreme northern frontiers of Prussia. A French gentleman, Count Montholieu, who had loaned the Crown Prince money, would probably have perished upon the scaffold had he not escaped by flight. His effigy was nailed to the gallows. FORE:CHAPTER VI. THE MARRIAGE OF WILHELMINA.

ONE:��May a miller,�� he exclaimed, fiercely, ��who has no water, and consequently can not grind, have his mill taken from him? Is that just? Here is a nobleman wishing to make a fish-pond. To get more water for his pond, he has a ditch dug to draw into it a small stream which drives a water-mill. Thereby the miller loses his water, and can not grind. Yet, in spite of this, it is pretended that the miller shall pay his rent, quite the same as at the time when he had full water for his mill. Of course he can not pay his rent. His incomings are gone.As he was upon the point of setting off, seven Austrian deserters came in and reported that General Neipperg��s full army was advancing at but a few miles�� distance. Even as they were giving their report, sounds of musketry and cannon announced that the Prussian outposts were assailed by the advance-guard of the foe. The peril of Frederick was great. Had Neipperg known the prize within his reach, the escape of the Prussian king would have been almost impossible. Frederick had but three or four thousand men with him at Jagerndorf, and only three pieces of artillery, with forty rounds of ammunition. Bands of Austrian cavalry on fleet horses were swarming all around him. Seldom, in the whole course of his life, had Frederick been placed in a more critical position.

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ONE: Desperate Exertions of Frederick.��Aid from England.��Limited Resources.��Opening of the Campaign.��Disgraceful Conduct of Voltaire.��Letter to Voltaire.��An Act of Desperation.��Letter to Count Finckenstein.��Frankfort taken by the Prussians.��Terrible Battle of Kunersdorf.��Anguish of Frederick.��The Disastrous Retreat.��Melancholy Dispatch.��Contemplating Suicide.��Collecting the Wrecks of the Army.��Consternation in Berlin.��Letters to D��Argens.��Wonderful Strategical Skill.��Literary Efforts of the King.Under these circumstances, Frederick made indirect but vigorous exertions to bring the war to a close. ��I am ready and desirous now,�� he said, ��as at all times, for peace. I will immediately sheathe the sword if I can be guaranteed the possession of Silesia.��

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THREE:On the 26th of April Frederick again wrote to M. Podewils: ��I can understand how you are getting uneasy at Berlin. I have the most to lose of you all, but I am quiet and prepared for events. If the Saxons take part in the invasion of Silesia, and we beat them, I am determined to plunge into Saxony. For great maladies there need great remedies. Either I will maintain my all or else lose my all. To me remains only to possess myself in patience. If all alliances, resources, and negotiations fail, and all conjunctures go against me, I prefer to perish with honor rather than lead an inglorious life, deprived of all dignity. My ambition whispers me that I have done more than another to the building up of my house, and have played a distinguished part among the crowned heads of Europe. To maintain myself there has become, as it were, a personal duty, which I will fulfill at the expense of my happiness and my life. I have no choice left. I will maintain my power, or it may go to ruin, and the Prussian name be buried under it. If the enemy attempt any thing upon us, we will either beat them, or will all be hewed to pieces for the sake of our country and the renown of Brandenburg. No other counsel can I listen to. Perform faithfully the given work on your side, as I on mine. For the rest, let what you call Providence decide as it likes. I prepare myself for every event. Fortune may be kind or be unkind, it shall neither dishearten me nor uplift me. If I am to perish, let it be with honor, and sword in hand.��Soon after Frederick wrote to Voltaire upon this subject again, still more severely, but in verse. The following is almost a literal translation of this poetic epistle:

ONE:In the court of the czarina there was a very handsome young Pole, Stanislaus Poniatowski, who had been an acknowledged lover of Catharine. Though Catharine had laid him aside for other favorites, she still regarded him with tender feelings. He was just the man to do her bidding. By skillful diplomacy she542 caused him to be elected King of Poland. That kingdom was now entirely in her hands, so far as it was in the power of its monarch to place it there.��The king respects his mother,�� the same writer adds. ��She is the only female to whom he pays any sort of attention. She is a good, fat woman, who moves about in her own way.��

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��It was an affecting sight,�� says M. Bielfeld, ��to see a dying man in the midst of a brilliant illumination, surrounded by princes, and visited by a triumphant monarch, who, in the midst of the incessant clamor of exultation, sought only to alleviate the sick man��s pangs, participating in his distress, and reflecting upon the vanity of all human grandeur.��

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��My dear General and Friend,��I was charmed to learn, by your letter, that my affairs are on so good a footing. You may depend on it I am prepared to follow your advice. I will lend myself to whatever is possible for me. And, provided I can secure the king��s favor by my obedience, I will do all that is within my power.

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