FREDER EG. 
e time he did not fully avow 
ee Gres pie he had thought proper to caufe 
troops to enter Silefia, in order to cover it from being in- 
o his dominions, whither the flames of war, 
, might be extended, and ex- 
owever, fince that period, 
mbled a clinics 
my of 30,000 e head of ee ie put himfelf, 
though {carcely recovered from an 1 intermittent fever, i in the 
ae 
if the aces turn up, we will 
on the inhabitants, u 
ruffians were us in this com- 
bat, and the ie took poffeffion of Brel the capital of 
the province, where ~ received the. ein of the ftates. 
‘He returned in triu wards the clofe . of 
the year, having firft cm a faint a troops to aid the 
-French and elector of Bavaria in their invafions of Bohemia 
and Moravia. "At 1 he made a feparate treaty at 
rele with ‘the queen of Hun who was glad to free 
herfelf from fo d ous an enem ceding to him all 
Silefia,. except ark a os alfo the principality of 
Glatz in Bohem Thus. Fe eae s firft attempt 
— with complete fa fuc fe “Hee mployed the interval 
with S and ria, which Frederic though mig 
become offenfive againft Prui as he thought it 
his intereft to deprefs Aufiaa, fo he refolved to effe 
The refufal of the queen of Hungary to concur in the ae 
tion of Charles VII. to the empire, was the immediate pre- 
text for hoftilities, and in Auguit 1744. Frederic marched 
with an army o 2 000 men into Bohemia, and laid fiege 
Heme after a ste hate ombard- 
*-this fuccefs,: pagn w was = 
little to his mind ‘that ay fovbade all ner ee For ¢ ever fro 
tioning it in his prefence. In the following {pring he 
ed to the fcene of action, and obtained over his opponent, 
prince Charles of Lorraine, a moft decifive victory... While 
.on the throne. 
: it, but, 
pe from anvidious 
-Pruffian majefty confidered him as a general who underftood 
a: of candour 
entered that capital and laid it under very caee pntebie 
tions: a treaty of peace was, ‘however a between 
the kings of Poland and Prufiia, hich Vienna was 
included. The queen of Hungary was one a as a part 
in the treaty of Drefden, and confirmed the ceflion of Sile- 
fia according to the terms of the peace of Breflaw, while 
sie the re treops evacuat ic 
returned to ny where ag € was aa by his bee 
with the loudele achat tion 
The 
of h 
wrote and pu lithed “ The Frederician Code: r a body of 
Law for t g of Pr alia, founded on 
ofe of forcing confeieca, Be Bi ee 
the number of eal crimes greatly di iminifhed ; an 
rites of the catholic religion were tolerated. Frederic, about 
this period, appeared as the author of « Memoires pour ay 
vir a Vhiftoire de la Maifon de Brandebourg.” This ¢ 
tains a concife account . - ingen = royal alte 
_written in a good ftyle apparent impartiality. 
His reflections are often ‘aft ore stile il. but he has 
occafionally given way to his prejudices, and ‘mifreprefents 
incidental matters of faét; neverthelefs, in the dedication of 
this work to the prince royal of Pruffia, he fays, “I have 
treated the fubjeCt with freedom and impart o fo.as to 
exhibit ee princes of your houfe in real colours. 
an 
only as rina men. Far fro meng biafied by aa weight 
of power, or from idolizing my anceftors, . e freely 
ean their vices, becaufe vice ree find mariana 
I have e-praifed virtue wherever I have found 
e, have guarded againift that enthufiafm 
which it naturally ae to the end that nothing but truth, 
er plai native drefs, fhould reign throughout this 
is nex 
4 
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a 
co 
ntioned the name, nor hinted at the glory of our 
man the duke o 
£ Marlborough. 
illuftrions « 
motives: we rather ae that his 
only a part of his -profe efion, having never oe 
Ee 
his flcill i condué ding a retreat !?? Tot d 
nd amufements, and the j journeys 
which he undertook. to cee parts; of -his dominions, oc- 
cupied 
