The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg by command of the late King of Prussia; also anecdotes, historical, political, and personal . ee fta-tions: our fervice, during winter, wasat Berlin; where we attended theopera, and all public feftivals: in thefpring we were exercifed at Chariot«tenberg; and at Potzdam, or where-ever the King went, during the fum-mer. The fix officers of the guard dined ( 19 ) dined with the King, and, on galadays, with the Queen. It may beprcfumed, there
The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg by command of the late King of Prussia; also anecdotes, historical, political, and personal . ee fta-tions: our fervice, during winter, wasat Berlin; where we attended theopera, and all public feftivals: in thefpring we were exercifed at Chariot«tenberg; and at Potzdam, or where-ever the King went, during the fum-mer. The fix officers of the guard dined ( 19 ) dined with the King, and, on galadays, with the Queen. It may beprcfumed, there was not, at thattime, on earth, a better fchool toform an officer and a man of theworld, than was the court of Berlin. I had fcarcely been Cix weeks acadet before the King took me afide,one day, after the parade, and, havingexamined me near half an hour, onvarious fubjeds, commanded me tocome and fpeak to him on the mor-row. His intention was to find whetherthe accounts that had been given himof my memory had not been exag-gerated j and, that he might be con-vinced, he firfl: gave me the names offifty foldiers to learn by rote, which Idid in five minutes. He next repeat-ed the fubjeds of two letters, whichI immediately compofed in French and. Ti,t>. ( 20 ) and Latins the one I wrote, theother I didlated. He next orderedme to trace, with promptitude, alandlcape fronn nature, which I ex-ecuted with equal fuccefs ; and hetlien gave me a cornets commiffionin his body guards. Each mark of bounty, from themonarch, increafed an ardour alreadygreat, infpired me with gratitude,and the firft of my wiihes was, todevote my whole life to the ferviceof my king and country. He fpoketo me, as a fovercign (hould fpeak,like a father, like one who knewwell how to eftimate the gifts be-ftowed on me by Nature ; and, per-ceiving> or rather feeling how muchhe might expedlfronn me, became atonce my inftrudlor, and my friend. Thus did I remain a cadet onlyfix weeks, and few PruiFians can - vaun
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