castle of Konigstein, where Frederic sent word to the Queen that she would be indulged in visiting him; and that care was taken to furnish her Lord with provisions and diversions. I have abridged this narrative as much as possible. From this time, the King of Prussia was too much connected with our affairs to be passed over in silence; but his actions have been too singular and too splendid to want illustration from a private annalist. Europe was the tablet on which he has written his own memoirs with his sword, as he will probably with his pen. Besides, I live too near the times, and too far from the scene of action, to be able to penetrate into the exact detail of his campaigns and measures, and to winnow the truth from such a variety of interested, exaggerated, contested relations, as are at once produced by eminent glory, and strive to obscure it. I shall observe the same circumspection whenever I have further occasion to mention this extraordinary man. FOOTNOTES: [61] Lord Torrington. [62] In one of the hearings on this cause, Lord Mansfield, the Chief Justice, produced in court a libel published against Princess Emily, and insisted that the jury should take an oath that they had no hand in it--and yet, when they had taken the oath, he put off the cause! [63] Elizabeth, half-sister of the Duke of Newcastle, was first wife of Charles Lord Viscount Townshend, Knight of the Garter, grandfather of Mr. Charles Townshend. [64] Mr. Charles Townshend had married the Countess Dowager of Dalkeith, first cousin of the Earl of Bute. [65] A Captain Cunningham, who had been ill-used in our service, and was retired to Leghorn, said, “They will want engineers,”--and immediately sold all he had, bought provisions and ammunition, and flung himself into St. Philip’s. This gallant man died in the island of Guadaloupe, at the taking of which he served, in 1759. [66] They offered him the Duchy of Lancaster for life, with a pension of 2000_l._ a year; permission to remain Attorney-General (which produced 7000_l._ a year), and the reversion of the first Teller of the Exchequer for his nephew, Lord Stormont. At the beginning of October they bid up to 6000_l._ a year in pension. They pressed him to stay but a month, nay, only to defend them on the first day. Was innocence ever so extravagant, or so alarmed?--“Good God!” said Murray himself, “what merit have I, that you should load this country, for which so little is done with spirit, with the additional burthen of 6000_l._ a year?” [67] Vide Appendix. CHAPTER VIII.