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irruption into Hungary, and 
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was enabled to gai ground upon is enemies, and to 
dhereatehs‘theda- with invasion in their turn. Though 
ived of his Russian auxiliaries by a new 
ferers, more than half a million of combatants had fal- 
i thing was replaced on its ancient 
footing, and the gainful result was simply this, 
that Frederick Aad Prussia ty Boge furnished with an 
opportunity proving hi a consummate com- 
mander, animated by an unconquerable spirit of mili- 
heroism, and endued with one of the coolest heads 
hardest hearts in Christendom. 
_ Returning to his capital, after an absence of nearly 
six years, Frederick applied himself, with all his ta- 
lents and perseverance, to the internal improvement of 
his ; rebuilt the towns and villages, and remu- 
erated the nial who had suffered comes 
war ; afforded every encouragement to agriculture, 
manufactures, 
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his regular force amounted to 200,000 men. Li 
suing base money, which he compelled his subjects to - 
take in payment; but which he ordered his commis- 
sioners to refuse in ing the taxes. For the pur- 
pose of peopling his own territories, he carried from the 
i ing provinces of Poland many thousand fe- 
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prime mover and most active perpetrator in- 
famous partition press eee ihe dtee 6" He 
was not disposed, however, to similar acts of rob- 
bery, in which he had no share; and, when the Emperor 
possession of Bavaria, he resisted his un- 
just pretensions, and conducted in person the cam- 
paign, or rather armed negotiation of 1778, which was 
terminated by the peace of Teschen. The two last of 
his public acts were the establishment, in 1785, of the 
Germanic union for preserving the constitution of the 
empire; and a treaty of amity and commerce, in 1786, 
ith the United States of America. 
Frederick was now seventy-four years of age, in full 
ion of all his mental powers, but extremely debi- 
Fated in his comporel fame He began to suffer much 
from dropsy, without being sensible, (or at least with- 
out Being willing to allow,) that he was afflicted with 
that disorder. He nevertheless continued his attention 
to public business, withou Aenea cw mer é 
Rising at four o'clock every morning, he employed him- 
self several hours with his three principal seeretaries, 
reading dispatches, dictating answers, and directing the 
most minute transactions of his government. The go- 
vernor of Potsdam then attended about eight o'clock to 
receive his orders ing the daily duty of the gar- 
rison. He next admitted a physician for a few minutes 
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uired a zealous ally Py an ae: 
