“ Nadaste, Trenck, and the light troops, that were to have attacked us in the rear, stopped to pillage our camp: it is worthy of remark, that when news was brought to the King, that the Croats were pillaging the camp, he answered: "So much the better, they will have something to do, and will not prevent us from carrying the principal point." We were completely victorious: but lost the baggage. The head quarters left without defence, were entirely pillaged: and Trenck had for his share of the plunder, the King's tent, and all his silver plate. ”

“ The town was so full of people that we could not force an entrance; the gate was shut, and our field pieces kept firing from above. Trenck stopped the passage of the water; by midnight it was as high as our horses' bellies, and we were almost entirely abandoned. We lost six men, and my horse was wounded in the neck-It is certain that the King, as well as the rest of us, would have been made prisoners, if my cousin could have continued the attack: But receiving a wound in the foot with a cannon ball, he was obliged to be carried off, and the Pandours retired. ”

“ Sometimes, in a morning's exercise, we had several men and horses killed or wounded. The horses were kept in the King's stables; and he who could not dress, arm himself, saddle his horse, mount and fall into his rank in eight minutes, was put under arrest for a fortnight.
The trumpet frequently sounded before we had scarcely got into bed, by way of giving the young men a habit of vigilance. The Life Guards lost more men and horses in a time of profound peace, than they would have done in two battles. ”

“ Eighteen thousand men were made prisoners of war: the number of the garrison kill'd and wounded during the siege not exceeding five hundred.
So far we mot with no obstacle; however, the Imperial army, under the command of Prince Charles, who had left the banks of the Rhine, advanced to save Bohemia. His light armed troops, being thrice as numerous as ours, prevented our foraging. Famine and want therefore obliged us to retreat, having no relief to hope for from the country behind us, which we had laid entirely waste on our march. ”

“ When thus made an officer, the King gave me two horses from his own stables, and a thousand crowns to assist in purchasing my arms, uniform, &c. I was highly satisfied to find myself a courtier and an officer in the handsomest, bravest, and best disciplined corps in Europe. My military fortune seemed to have no bounds.
We passed the winter in garrison at Berlin, when the officers of our regiment lived with the Coun (illegible text) and as my reputation had preceded me thither nobody passed the time in a more agreeable manner than myself. ”

“ My eyes, after sometime became so accustomed to the darkness of the hole, that I could see a mouse run along the floor but in the winter when the sun was not visible, it might be truly said to live in eternal night.
I had tamed a mouse so perfectly, that the little animal was continually playing with me, and used to eat out of my mouth. One night it skipped about so much, that the centinals hearing a noise made their report to the officer of the Guard. ”

“ But a Lieutenant of Austrian Hussars, who lay concealed in a wood with thirty-six horse, having remarked the weakness of my escort, took advantage of the moment, when my people were employed in loading the waggons, and surprising my centinel, fell suddenly upon them, and took the whole party prisoners in the farm-yard, I was sitting quietly in the gentleman's seat, with the mistress of the house, and saw from the window what happened. ”

“ The famous battle of Soran was-fought on September 14th, The King had sent such large detachments into Saxony, Silesia, and Bohemia the grand army consisted at most of twenty-thousand men. Prince Charles, who obstinately persisted in judging of his enemy by the number of men, had surrounded the small number of Brandenburgh and Pomeranian troops with more than eighty-six thousand men, and was in hopes of taking them all prisoners. ”

“ My cousin was acquainted with the secret poison called Acqua tossana: he made his Confessor the confident of all his affairs, and employed him to deliver several jewels, and bills of exchange, of which he wished to make presents; among others, to know, that at that time, he sent back to a great Prince, a bill of exchange for two hundred thousand florins, due to him from the Prince; not a florin of which I ever recovered, although I was Trenck's only heir. ”

“ A few days after the battle of Soran, the postman brought me the following letter from my cousin Trenck, dated from Essek, and written four months before.
"I find by your letter from Berlin, of Feb, 12, that you desire me to send you some Hungarian horses, that you may employ them against my Hussars and Pandours. I perceived with pleasure, in the last campaign, that the Prussian Trenck was a good soldier. As a proof of my attachment, I sent you back your horses, which my people had taken. But if you want Hungarian horses, try next campaign to carry off mine by open force ”

“ This squadron consisted only of six officers, and an hundred and forty-four men; but we had (illegible text) ways fifty or sixty supernumeraries, and as many spare horses; for the King took all the handsome men he met with into his Guards. The officers were the best in the army. The King instructed them himself, and afterwards employed them to drill the rest of the Cavalry.
The duty of no other soldier in the world is as hard, as was that of a Life Guard man ”

“ FREDERICK BARON TRENCK.
I Was born in the year 1726, at Koenigsberg in Prussia. My father descended from an ancient family, was General of Cavalry. He died in 174 (illegible text) after having received eighteen wounds in the service of Prussia. My mother was daughter of the President of the Supreme Court of Koenigsberg, one of her brothers was Minister of State, and the two others Generals of Infantry. After my father's death, she married Count Loftange, Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment of Cuirassiers of Kiow. I had two brothers and a sister: one of my brothers remained with my mother ”

“ Long has my inquisitive eye been weary of viewing mankind. The hapless victim, who, like me, has been for sixty-eight years, exposed to the persecuting furl (illegible text) of relentless Fate, must wish for repose in the silent shades of Death! ”

“ The instant I came in, the King asked me if I returned alone; "No, Sire," answered I, "I bring with me five and twenty waggons loaded with forage, and twenty-two prisoners, with their officers and horses." The King immediately made me sit down: and turning to the English Ambassador, who was sitting beside him, tapped me on the shoulder, and said, "This is one of my youthful Matadors!" The horse intended to reconnoitre the enemy was already waiting before his tent ”

“ Some of the enemy's Hussars escaped by the back-door; however, we made twenty-two prisoners, among whom was a Lieutenant of the regiment of Kainockichen. They had two men killed and one wounded, and I lost on my side two Rangers, who were killed in the hay-loft where they were at work. After this rencounter, we continued to forage with greater precaution; the horses we had taken served in part to draw waggons; and having laid the convent under contribution to the amount of a hundred and fifty ducats which I distributed among my soldiers to purchase their silence, we set off to rejoin the army. ”

“ Trenck then begged all the officers of the garrison to come to his prison; too the tonsure, dressed himself is the habit of a Capuchin Friar, made a public confession, and preached an hour, exhorting his audience to think of their salvation He then took leave of them, knelt down to say his prayers, fell into a sound sleep, rose, and prayed again. Oct. the 4th he looked at his watch, at eleven o'clock in the morning and cried out, "God be praised my last hour is not far off. Every body present was much entertained at seeing a man of his character play (illegible text) ridiculous a comedy. ”