fold them more perfectly to view, for the contemplation and instruction of society.--Among such, I boldly venture to give you the following particulars, which I have good reason to believe will be found to be authentic. tm/7752 pak blid, ended 1eaple on It is well known, that the late King of Prussia incurred the displeasure of his father, a harsh and barbarous soldier, governing a rude people, destined to be polished and aggrandized by his successor, and that this displeasure was chiefly incurred by the prince's honourable addresses to a young lady of the

court, whom the whom the tyrant caused to be whipped under the window of w of the royal l royal lover, after which the prince resolved never to cohabit with the prince who was destined to supplant the unhappy mistress of his genuine affection.

This brutal insult, offered by the king to the lady, to the prince his son, and to humanity, was committed by the instigation of a general offices in the king's service, whose name it may be better, on account of his respectable, family, to conceal from the eye of the public, yow goivre ed Jud grisnot

When, after, the release, of the prince of Prussia, from his confinement, where he laid the foundation of his future greatness, by learning wisdom in the school of adversity, the king became sick of that malady which carried him to his grave. He sent for the prince his son to his bed-chamber, where, upon his VOL. I. K k

arrival, he walked up to the royal presence with the erect and stately step of a righthand man of a battalion, and at a considerable distance from the king, he halted in the same soldierly manner. The king said, Advance, my son. The prince advanced. The king said, Come nearer, Sir. The prince came nearer :--Kiss me, Sir, said the king, as a son ought to salute his father. The prince kneel ed, and saluted his father.

I have been thought harsh to you, Sir; and some of my worthy veteran officers have incurred your resentment, as advising my paternal discipline too strictly. I am now about to die, swear to me by God, that you will forgive all those who were the causes of your discontent. I will forgive them all but ONE, Sir, said the prince, kneeled, and saluted his father, bowed three times, turned to the right about, and marched out a la militaire as he entered. The king died two days after.

Some time after the succession of the prince to the throne, he caused an intimation to be given of a general levee to his court and officers of the army, to which he sent a particular invitation to the culprit general who had advised his father to destroy his mistress.

The general attended, and after the levee, when he saw the general retiring, he ordered him to be informed that the king forbade him to retire till he had seen him, after the court was finished. When all were gone, the king

said to the general, Follow me, Sir. The ge neral, trembling, obeyed; and as the king pass ed, he locked the door of communication with the anti-chamber; and so passing thro' slowly the various apartments, he clicked the doors with his pass key behind him; when at last, on opening the door of the great guard-room, on the other approach to the royal apartments, the unhappy general beheld the room hung round with black, and containing all the fatal apparatus of death by the hand of an executioner, who, with his axe in his hand at the block, and two clergymen standing by, were ready to perform the sentence of the law, which, awarded by a court-martial, was put into the hand of the general by the judgeadvocate. After a long pause, while the cold sweat stood on the brow of the unfortunate man, the king said, Sir, you cannot but confess that punishment, tho' slowly, has come at last, to reward your perfidy and your cruelty; but I will not be the means of hurrying you to your exit, without giving you leisure to write your last will, and to see your family. Having said this, a long and dreadful pause ensued suited to the king's purpose; he said to the general, Follow me, and went into an adjoining closet. He then looked with a mild but steady countenance on the general, and said, General, it is now all over. You have received your punishment, which must shew you experimentally, that the cruelty you advised my father to perpetrate was worse

than a thousand murders, as murdering the finest feeling of humanity.

I forgive you. There is your gold key

again; there is your regiment, and your place upon the staff. Learn to be humane, to for give, and to have no future occasion for for. giveness. There is a pair of colours for your eldest son. Come to the Caffè to-night, and

thank me.

Adieu. Another instance of the great Frederick's sublime benevolence shall close this letter.-.One day at the Caffè, when the king was in the midst of a most interesting conversation, he observed old Lord Marischal of Scotland, who had been sick, fallen asleep on a sopha in the corner of the room. The king imme. diately beckoned to the court for silence; and, treading softly towards Lord Marischal, and taking out his pocket-handkerchief, he threw it gently over the old man's head, and retired into another apartment, where he took up the conversation just where it had been interrupted.

I shall only add, in this place, one more characteristic anecdote of the great Frederick; who, on the 25th of January 1785, caused old Ziethen to sit in his presence at court, his son, brothers, and all the great officers being present, as a public testimony of his gratitude to the general, and his affection for the man.--Of this magnificent and truly sentimental exhibition, there is a picture, from which an engraving was made by Chodowrecki at Ber

lin, and furnishes a proper ornament for the' cabinet of a man who has a soul to perceive the beauty of the action. Ziethen is represented attempting to get up; and the king, with a noble expression of heroic tenderness, preventing him, by laying his right hand on the shoulder of the veteran. The tear stands in the eye of Ziethen; and all the spectators appear moved with what is passing. The persons represented in this piece with the king, are the hereditary prince, now king; prince Ferdinand, the king's brother; the prince of Brunswick; general Ziethen; general Mollendorff; prince Frederick; William of Wirtemberg; general Braun; general Pretwittz; general Schulemberg; general Holzendorff; Dolfs, the commander of the Gens d'Armes; Wolfradt, major commandant of Ziethen's Hussar regiment; Lentz, ditto; Tempelholff, major of artillery; Wedel, lieu tenant and adjutant of Waldeck regiment; Garten, ditto; Probst, lieutenant and adjutant of Ziethen's; Eichstadt, ditto; H. F. Christ. Lewis Ziethen, son of the old general; and Schildwacht, another officer in the king's service.

I am, Sir, with sincere desire to promote the reputation of your work, Your humble servant, ALBANICUS.

Banks of Tweed,

April 12. 1791.

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