d honesty, and not the vilest of rascals and miscreants. But,
alas! the effects and money they have robbed me of have never been
restored; and for the miseries they have brought upon me, they could not
be recompensed by the wealth of any or all the monarchs on earth. Estates
they may, but truth they cannot confiscate; and of the villainy of
Abramson and Weingarten I have documents and proofs that no court of
justice could disannul. Stop, reader, if thou hast a heart, and in that
heart compassion for the unfortunate! Stop and imagine what my
sensations are while I remember and recount a part only of the injustice
that has been done me, a part only of the tyranny I have endured! By
this last act of treachery of Weingarten was I held in chains, the most
horrible, for nine succeeding years! By him was an innocent man brought
to the gallows! By him, too, my sister, my beloved, my unfortunate
sister, was obliged to build a dungeon at her own expense! besides being
amerced in a fine, the extent of which I never could learn. Her goods
were plundered, her estates made a desert, her children fell into extreme
poverty, and she herself expired in her thirty-third year, the victim of
cruelty, persecution, her brother's misfortunes, and the treachery of the
Imperial embassy!

Footnotes:

{1} A common expression with Frederic when he was angry, and which has
since become proverbial among the Prussian and other German officers. See
Critical _Review_, _April_, 1755.

{2} The same Doo who was governor of Glatz during the Seven Years' war,
and who, having been surprised by General Laudohu, was made prisoner,
which occasioned the loss of Glatz. The King broke him with infamy, and
banished him with contempt. In 1764 he came to Vienna, where I gave him
alms. He was, by birth, an Italian, a selfish, wicked man; and, while
major under the government of Fouquet, at Glatz, brought many people to
misery. He was the creature of Fouquet, without birth or merit; crafty,
malignant, but handsome, and, having debauched his patron's daughter,
afterwards married her; whence at first his good, and at length his ill
fortune. He wanted knowledge to defend a fortress against the enemy, and
his covetousness rendered him easy to corrupt.

{3} The German mile contains from four to seven English miles, and this
variation appears to depend on the ignorance of the people and on the
roads being in some places but little frequented. It s