siaiuseaionen son 
On the death of the firft Frederic, the French 
“doitinions. 
up Staniflaus Lefziniky, but the Auftrians and 
party fet 
ele&to inione, th 6 x1e was not able to retain them. 
He again occupied the fame territory in1756, and kept 
autumn of the fam 
year Frederic Auguitus died, leaving behiid him. feveral 
children, among whom was the dauphinefs of Trance, 
and mo o the unfortunate Lewis XVI. Frederic 
poffelled many private virtues, but was not active and 
eae asaking. Univer. Hift. Moreri. 
R i teffe Caffel, was 
6. 
Charles XII. king 
brother, in 17.19, was ae & b i ry Uf 
condition of great limitation of the royal authority. In th 
following hse fhe obtained the confent of the ftates to 
efign the crown to her hufband, who accepted it with al 
thofe ftipulations which rendered it the moft limited mo- 
e infufficiency of luis powers rendered 
— 
narchy in E urope. 
him unable to refit the invafion of the Ruffians in rials 
who pillaged the country, did great injury to t 
ubfequent war the hota of 
and copper m 
Swedes were rout- 
the Ruffians was {till more manifeft : the! 
ed at every encounter, great part of their 
captive, and all sa a lt Frederic died, without pof- 
— in 1751. 
DER eh re i as of Brandenburg, furnamed 
the «€ ‘Great leétor,”” fon of the elector George-William, 
was born in 1620 at Berlin, and the fucceffio eredi 
eftates fell to him in 1640. - He was brought up 
feffion of arms, and ferved in the camp of Frederic. Henry,- 
prince of Orange. When he fucceeded to his-dominions, 
he found them almoft ruined by the Swedes and other 
me 
In x ae he rec ceived ore invetture ‘of Pruffia fro m the king- 
‘of Poland, and ‘in the next year’ e a truce e 
Swédés, on the ee 8 ence: ‘that they fhould evacuate 
the greateft part of his ftates, fo that in a fhort ti time he re- 
covered the whole of his doeniois: To oppofe or coun- 
teraét the ambitious projects of Charles-Guitavus, king of: 
Sweden, he entered into an alliance with Holland, and’was: 
extremely defirous of obtaining peed friendfhip of mwell. 
and’ Lewis XIV. In 1655he c ncluded.a a treaty oh the 
Swedes, whofe army he joined in a invafion of Poland, con- 
tributed very much to the victo i r Warfaw, and 
obtained for ts fervices the entire fovereignty of Pruffia, 
in confequence of a powerful league formed againft the 
- king ‘of Sweden, the aiceior deferted his party, and made 
Vv 
fted, with 
an event eae “was wee followe ae a peeiaet ‘pea 
no occafion to fecure an cs ex — his i ele ge 
Ww. en the ambi tion of 
troops, he began his march in.167 
marfhal Tur nne, who offeffion of all his pte . 
in Weltphalia a. retc id hi 
of his formidable enemy ie os which 
sie the utmoft horror _ indign 
of tro oop The Fren ch, to fee? 
themfelves from this oe, inftigated the — 
a diverfion in their favour by invading the marches of ae 
denburg ; a meafure that forced the dees back t 
the defence of his fubje€ts, and in June 1675 he obtained: 
a fignal victory over a fuperior Swedifh army, In. another. 
ee ae was fummoned to defend Pruffia apaintt the fame 
enemy ; h n the midit of winter, croffed the gulf 
of Cains with his ag on fled. i 
the Swedes in, . their Fae age forced them to 
oO 
the French “a and aioe agreed to the peace of St. - 
i ae which he reftored all his conquefts - 
Swe con and abandoned-the king of Denmark ; . 
rench evacuated the Weftphalian_ domi- - 
money. From ‘t we 
as a warrior, but, we 
more elevated charatez, attending to the improvement of ; 
his country, and to the au igmentation of its hap 
upon the 
and i in return the 
contending, fovereigns he revocation of the edi&t of. 
es gave him a aa acceffion of induftrious fubje&s, . 
6 enriched his country with their arts and ma anufactures. 
A French colony was formed at Berlin, which flourified ex- - 
tremely i in coueaneice of ihe privileges which he conferred 
upon it. Frederic died of the droply at the age of fixty- 
eight, in the year 1688. Jie beheld ‘the appre eles of . 
death with compoiure, and employed his laft faa anxious 
cares for the public good.. In private Life he was kind and. 
he: generous, fond of fociety, quick i in his temper, . bit readily ° : 
He is confidered ag the boaft and glory of his 
EDERIC I., king of Pruffia, was fon o 
and born at eee in 1657. ‘The conftitution of this 
ey was weak and fic pel and his fae reatly ne- 
acquifitions of territo 
among the children which he had by his fecond wife, t 
judi tof this atticle. TThig:difpofition was 
place; aiid Frederic facceeded t 
whole inheritance in the year 1688. N aturally ambitious, .. 
es not pofféffing fafficient vigour .to raife himfe above hia 7 
ighbours, who were equally pewerful with- hi mfelf, Fre 
an. attempted. -to-fupply. this defo. by the pomp: of Gileas 4 4 
and~ 
