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FORE:The Austrians, on the careless and self-confident march toward Parchwitz, had crossed the Schweidnitz River, or Water, as it438 was called, when they learned that Frederick, with a tiger-like spring, had leaped upon Neumarkt, an important town fourteen miles from Parchwitz. Here the Austrians had a bakery, protected by a guard of a thousand men. Seven hundred of the guard were instantly sabred or taken prisoners. The rest fled wildly. Frederick gathered up eighty thousand hot bread rations, with which he feasted his hungry troops.

FORE: ��Unless one day the tumult of business and the wickedness of men alter so divine a character, you will be worshiped by your people and loved by the whole world. Philosophers, worthy of the name, will flock to your states. The illustrious Queen Christina quitted her kingdom to go in search of the arts. Reign you, Monseigneur, and the arts will come to seek you.

FORE:In reference to this event, the prince wrote to his mother from Potsdam, ��I am in the utmost despair. What I had always apprehended has at last come on me. The king has entirely forgotten that I am his son. This morning I came into his room as usual. At the first sight of me he sprang forward, seized me by the collar, and struck me a shower of blows with his rattan. I tried in vain to screen myself, he was in so terrible a rage, almost out of himself. It was only weariness that made him give up. I am driven to extremity. I have too much honor to endure such treatment, and I am resolved to put an end to it in one way or another.��Two events occurred at this time highly characteristic of the king. There was a nobleman by the name of Schlubhut, occupying a high official position, who was found a defaulter to the amount of a sum equal to twenty-five thousand dollars. The supreme court sentenced him to three or four years�� imprisonment. The king was indignant at the mildness of the sentence. ��What,�� said he, ��when the private thief is sent to the gallows, shall a nobleman and a magistrate escape with fine and imprisonment?�� Schlubhut was immediately sent to prison. All night long he was disturbed with the noise of carpentering in the castle square in front of his cell. In the morning he saw directly before his window a huge gallows erected. Upon that126 gallows he was immediately hung, and his body was left to swing in the wind for several days, some say for weeks.

FORE:An eye-witness thus describes the tactics by which Frederick executed his design: ��It is a particular man?uvre which, up to the present time, none but Prussian troops can execute with the precision and velocity indispensable to it. You divide your line into many pieces. You can push these forward stair-wise, so that they shall halt close to one another. Forming itself in this way, a mass of troops takes up in proportion very little ground. And it shows in the distance, by reason of the mixed uniforms and standards, a totally chaotic mass of men, heaped one on another. But it needs only that the commander lift his finger, and instantly this living coil of knotted intricacies develops itself in perfect order, and with a speed like that of mountain rivers.��112

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FORE:��It is the common rumor now,�� Sir Thomas replied, ��that your majesty, after the 12th of August, will join the French. Sire, I venture to hope not. Austria prefers your friendship; but if your majesty disdain Austria��s advances, what is it to do? Austria must throw itself entirely into the hands of France, and endeavor to outbid your majesty.��

FORE: Winter Encampment.��Death of Maupertuis.��Infamous Conduct of Voltaire.��Reproof by the King.��Voltaire��s Insincerity.��Correspondence.��The King publishes his Poems.��Dishonorable Conduct of the King.��New Encampment near Dresden.��Destruction of Frederick��s Army in Silesia.��Atrocities perpetrated by the Austrians.��Astonishing March.��The Austrians outwitted.��Dresden bombarded and almost destroyed by Frederick.��Battle of Liegnitz.��Utter Rout of the Austrians.��Undiminished Peril of Frederick.��Letter to D��Argens.

FORE:The Czarina, Anne of Russia, died the 28th of October, 1740,240 just eight days after the death of the emperor. She left, in the cradle, the infant Czar Iwan, her nephew, two months old. The father of this child was a brother of Frederick��s neglected wife Elizabeth. The mother was the Russian Princess Catharine of Mecklenburg, now called Princess Anne, whom Frederick had at one time thought of applying for as his wife. Russia was a semi-barbaric realm just emerging into consideration, and no one could tell by what influences it would be swayed. The minor powers could be controlled by the greater��constrained by terror or led by bribes. Such, in general, was the state of Europe at this time.

FORE:In the mean time, Wilhelmina, disappointed in not finding her brother, wrote to him the following account of her adventures:

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