Soon after this an event occurred very characteristic of the kingan event which conspicuously displayed both his good and bad qualities. A miller was engaged in a lawsuit against a nobleman. The decree of the court, after a very careful examination, was unanimously in favor of the nobleman; the king, who had impulsively formed a different opinion of the case, was greatly exasperated. He summoned the four judges before him, denounced them in the severest terms of vituperation, would listen to no defense, and dismissed them angrily from office.
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In the following curious proclamation, the Empress Catharine II. announced to her subjects the death of her husband:THE EMPRESS CATHARINE.In the account which Frederick gave, some years after, of this campaign, in his Histoire de Mons Temps, he wrote:The king paused. A general murmur of applause indicated the united resolve to conquer or to die. Frederick immediately added: