jUf CATHERINE OP SCHW ARTZBURG. 



the mouth of a mortar by the licentious foldiers, to be 

 ihot into the air; a fate which he happily avoided 

 only by the accident of the powder not catching fire. 

 He was now for the fecond time in imminent danger of 

 his life, and a price of 5000 florins was fet upon his 

 Jiead, becaufe the emperor was enraged againft him 

 for having contumelioufly attacked his Interim from 

 the pulpit. Catharina had him privately brought to 

 her caftle, on the petition of the people of Saalfeldt ; 

 where fhe kept him many months concealed, and 

 caufed him to be attended with the greateft afficluity, 

 till the florm was blown over, and he could venture to 

 appear in public. She died, univerfally honoured and 

 lamented, in the 58th year of her age, and the 29th of 

 Jier reign. The church of Rudolftadt is in pofTeffion 

 of her bones. 



ON THE LIBERTY AND THE LICENTIOUSNEESS OF 

 THE PRESS. 



FROM MR. WIELAND TO A FRIEND. 



Yo U wifli to know my fentiments on the dif- 

 tinftion between the liberty and the licentioufnefs of 

 the prefs. As I take it to be a privilege necefTarily 

 connected with the honour of being a man, to think 

 on all cogitable matters, and to impart the refult of 

 our reflections to others, and to do both in the beft 

 method we can ; fo I make no hefitation in frankly 

 difclofing to you how I regard the fubjeft. I take it 



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