FREDERIC. 
edall the lcifure he could command from thofe royal 
pias which he always performed with the greateft pun¢tu- 
ele His hours ts A ieay tess were deg to mufic: he 
arts in and Potee palaces, and 
and Potzdam, Bhs 
fineft 
fo many important evi 
At the com een of the war in 1755 between 
England. and France, the former made a treaty with the 
king of Pruffia, which produced an alliance between France, 
Auftria, and Ruffia. Thus the whole political fyftem of the 
continent was changed; the feeds of a new war were plenti- 
fully fcattered, and they foon ripened into events more ex- 
traordinary and interefting eae Europe had for a long time 
i ar began in 1756 with the 
lay ate was fully appr ined ‘of the 
confederacy aes — bea formed againit in, in cafe of 
his giving rife to wwar. He — demanded of 
the emprefi-qiicen ae intention of certain 
c equ 
oi Si of military fame, but which occafioned, what is ripe 
regarded by pa patie fovereigns, a miferable effufion of 
haman sane and was productive of much calamit to the 
the c é of Poland, the ciehor v had 
already experienced his power, aflembled his troops at the 
ftron » of Pirn a, and rep aired thither in phase eaving 
his queen at Dreft oes who by the treachery of 
ftan f the queen to prevent him. 
H next affumed the-entire government of the eleGoral do- 
minions, difmifled the pe cil'and mi 
si _ polio of the c 
on’ of the Sone army to enter among his own 
oa. At: the beginning of 1757 the enemies of Frederic 
~ were affembling forces againft him on all fides, and every 
method adopted to excite’ a general abhorrence of con- 
duct, and he was put under the - ban, or curfe of the em- 
into Bohemia, w ommand,. and o 
the 
proved very ace but at length terminated in favour of 
the Pruffians. 
in the city, which ae immediately invefted, but, after 
-committing terrible havock among the inhabitants and army, 
he was forced, by the great mar shen to raife the fiege, 
and retreat in the beft manner he wa 
airs were now i extremely Sl fituati he 
hemmed in on all quarters, and no y and refolution 
fhort. of what he poilefled could have extricatec } never. 
5th of May he fought the battle of Prague, ae fation 
-uftrians were obliged to take fhelter 
e king’s af- tang 
freed from the enemies which had fo clofely prefled him. 
The fplendour aA the king of Pruffia’s actions had rendered 
him the obje& of we admiration: in England he was 
regarded as the proteftant hero fighting for the caufe of re- 
ligion and liberty, and a pounce | Faia was concluded by 
which England engaged to paya x hundred and 
feventy Sea pounds fterling to Be king i; Pruffia, for” 
und to no fpecific fervices, but only to keep 
cam- 
den. On the 12th of At 
fought. At firft the made fure o. fuels and ah- 
nounced his seine in a billet to the queen ; but having: 
da fecond attack, the fortune of the day turned . 
fa ing, “© Remove from Berlin with the r 5 Let 
the archives be carried to Pot wn may make 
conditions with the enemy.”’ Berlin boa. did not fall, 
and by the high military fkill and great prefence of min 
of the Eins, he repaired his own loffes, and completely: 
awed his enemies, 
Though eee had exhibited the greateft talents and - 
moft confumm h he had obtained the moft | 
is t 
$ rather ca the ordinary. - 
hoftilities paca the more 
army was not compofed 0 
which hec Mhottilities, he ha 
the emperor Peter a he’ ee = a treaty of 
= is was foll wed by a fae weden, ae 
a neutrality in the remaining conteft. 176 
peace was concluded, called the peace of oe lunes from 
the cattle of tk h the articles were drawn 
of Breilay « and Berlin, and confirmed to Frederic his former 
Silefian acquifitions. The emprefs-queen, and the king of 
ruffia, renounced all claims upen each other’s territories, 
that, jealoufy which his numerous. ftandin 
-conduct towards his sy gale had eat and srl 
afpir 
