nd we were in the suburb, and began to fire upon
us from the city windows. The tumult became extreme: the city was too
full for us to re-enter: the gate was shut, and they fired from above at
us with our field-pieces. Trenck had let in the waters upon us, and we
were up to the girths by midnight, and almost in despair. We lost seven
men, and my horse was wounded in the neck.

The King, and all of us, had certainly been made prisoners had my cousin,
as he has since told me, been able to continue the assault he had begun:
but a cannon ball having wounded him in the foot, he was carried off, and
the pandours retired. The corps of Nassau arrived next day to our aid;
we quitted Kollin, and during the march the King said to me, "Your cousin
had nearly played us a malicious prank last night, but the deserters say
he is killed." He then asked what our relationship was, and there our
conversation ended.

CHAPTER III.

It was about the middle of December when we came to Berlin, where I was
received with open arms. I became less cautious than formerly, and,
perhaps, more narrowly observed. A lieutenant of the foot guards, who
was a public Ganymede, and against whom I had that natural antipathy and
abhorrence I have for all such wretches, having indulged himself in some
very impertinent jokes on the secret of my amour, I bestowed on him the
epithet he deserved: we drew our swords, and he was wounded. On the
Sunday following I presented myself to pay my respects to his Majesty on
the parade, who said to me as he passed, "The storm and the thunder shall
rend your heart; beware!" {1} He added nothing more.

Some little time after I was a few minutes too late on the parade; the
King remarked it, and sent me, under arrest, to the foot-guard at
Potzdam. When I had been here a fortnight, Colonel Wartensleben came,
and advised me to petition for pardon. I was then too much a novice in
the modes of the court to follow his counsel, nor did I even remark the
person who gave it me was himself a most subtle courtier. I complained
bitterly that I had so long been deprived of liberty, for a fault which
was usually punished by three, or, at most, six days' arrest. Here
accordingly I remained.

Eight days after, the King being come to Potzdam, I was sent by General
Bourke to Berlin, to carry some letters, but without having seen the
King. On my return I presented myself to him on the parade; and as our
squadron was garris