will. prefer you (to a score of my own, 
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that whatever my two companions and 
myselt know, has not been obtained from 
the lessons of our professor, but by 
means of a foreigner, whom the other | 
Cadets never as yet have seen.’ 
“¢ A foreigner!” exclaims the a nce, 
é and who is he?” 
“ A Prussian student, with whom we 
Juckily formed an acquaintance about 
six weeks ago, and who has ever since 
given us ‘lessons daily. tle appears to 
be very learned, but he chiefly excels in 
rendering every thing more intelligible 
to us than any of the most celebrated 
professors.” The astonishment of the 
master-general of the ordnance was now — 
rather increased than diminished,.and he 
sent instantly for Schreeder, whom he 
received in the most affable manner, and 
after a variety of questions, at aes 
spoke to him as follows: _ 
“But, pray sir, why does nota man So 
well informed as you appear to be, adopt 
the military profession instead of the 
pen? with a little assistance, you might _ 
attain high preferment.” 
3615 “precisely this little assistance, 
as [ have now the fionor of informing 
your highness, that has hitherto been 
wanting, and is never likely to be ob- 
tained ! - In my own country none of 
my relations -possess influence; and, in 
addition to this consideration, ‘commis- 
siens for officers appear to be reserved 
for the nobility alone. At Vienna Iam 
entirely a stranger, unknown and un- 
patronized.” 
“Yet. here you may find friends— 
trust henceforth to me—and if succeed- 
_ing interviews shall correspond to the 
present, and you but continue to acquire 
the knowledge necessary for tactics, I 
foclish cousins or nephews! But, in the 
first place, will you-contide in me F” 
“ Oh! this is a question that is easily 
ansawered—all that I have ever heard of 
your highness redounds so much to your 
nlory, that one ought to deem himself. 
your good Opl- 
nion.” j 
“ Know then,” replies the prince, 
_that in my corps it is an inyariable 
rule, that every one, but more espe- 
Shas foreigner, shall enter as a 
‘Schreder drew back. with 
he was already on the point of 
his bow and retiring, when the 
artillerists secretly pressed him to 
: aa dd, accordingly, after reflecting a 
enaily 
private 
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ma ete 
‘seconds, he repli ed; with a trembling < 
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voice, as follows:— I am eonscions 
that your highness knows better than 
myself what is proper for me, and £ 
therefore abandon every thing entirely to” 
your discretion.” 
The prince siniled; and then com. 
_manding a tailor. to fit him with the uni- 
form of a cadet, ordered him to appear 
in it on the following day. In the morn- 
ing he accordingly waited on the prince, - 
by whom he was invited to dinner. 
When he arrived at the appointed hour, 
the major-domo presented to him an> 
oficer’s uniform, which, he said, it would 
be necessary to put-on before he could 
be admitted to his master’s table, 
some hesitation Schreeder complied, 
but entered the dining-room with great 
diffidence. The prince however im- 
mediately called out, “ You are wel. 
come, ‘lieutenant; your uniform be- 
--come you wonderfully well!” In the 
course of.the same evening he caused 
him’to be presented with a considerable 
sum of money, under the notion of its 
being so mucly pay in advance for equip- 
ment. 
him one of his own adjutants, two years 
after he was nominated captain, and — 
then became a major! All this time’he 
appeared worthy of his prosperity, in- 
consequence of his zeal, his knowledge, 
and above all, his scrupulous probity. 
The Austrians themselves readily ad- 
mitted, that he had not been promoted 
beyond his merits. . 
While the elder Schroeder was thue 
advancing in his profession, his brother. 
had entered on a career no less extraor- — 
dinary. He repaired to Hungary, in 
company with an Englishman, as has © 
been before observed; but this person, 
who possessed all the oddity of his coun- 
trymen, was of such astrange disposition, 
that, no one could live amonth with him. 
&chreeder himself, notwithstanding his 
efforts to practise the virtue of patience, 
quitted his ‘patron at the end of three 
weeks, after ten or twelve altercations. 
At this critical period he found himself 4 5 
sixty or seventy miles beyond the fron- 
tiers of the German empire, in a wild 
country, unhealthy respect to strangers, 
where living was indeed cheap, but where 
it was yet extremely difficult to travel, 
‘provided one was poor, ‘To complete 
his distress, he was dangerously ill, and 
inthis situation he spent about six weeks. 
in the cabin of a peasants . In fine, he 
was obliged to sell his Hnen and his 
clothes to maintain himself; and at length 
returied 
After. 
At the end of a month he made 
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