body's trade but one's own!)

Readers know what a tragedy poor Peter's was. His Czernichef did join
the King; but with far less advantage than Czernichef or anybody had
anticipated!--It is none of our intention to go into the chaotic Russian
element, or that wildly blazing sanguinary Catharine-and-Peter
business; of which, at any rate, there are plentiful accounts in common
circulation, more or less accurate,--especially M. Rulhiere's, [Histoire
ou Anecdotes sur la Revolution de Russie en l'annes 1762 (written 1768;
first printed Paris, 1797: English Translation, London, 1797).] the most
succinct, lucid and least unsatisfactory, in the accessible languages.
Only so far as Friedrich was concerned are we. But readers saw this
Couple married, under Friedrich's auspices,--a Marriage which he thought
important twenty years ago; and sure enough the Dissolution of it did
prove important to him, and is a necessary item here!

Readers, even those that know RULHIERE, will doubtless consent to a
little supplementing from Two other Eye-witnesses of credit. The first
and principal is a respectable Ex-Swedish Gentleman, whom readers used
to hear of; the Colonel Hordt above mentioned, once of the Free-Corps
HORDT, but fallen Prisoner latterly;--whose experiences and reports are
all the more interesting to us, as Friedrich himself had specially to
depend on them at present; and doubtless, in times long afterwards, now
and then heard speech of them from Hordt. Our second Eye-witness is the
Reverend Herr Doctor Busching (of the ERDBESCHREIBUNG, of the BEITRAGE,
and many other Works, an invaluable friend to us all along); who, in
his wandering time, had come to be "Pastor of the GERMAN CHURCH AT
PETERSBURG," some years back.

WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July,
1762).

Autumn, 1759, in the sequel to KUNERSDORF,--when the Russians and Daun
lay so long torpid, uncertain what to do except keep Friedrich and
Prince Henri well separate, and Friedrich had such watchings, campings
and marchings about on the hither skirt of them (skirt always veiled in
Cossacks, and producing skirmishes as you marched past),--we did mention
Hordt's capture; [Supra, vol. x. p. 315.] not much hoping that readers
could remember it in such a press of things more memorable. It was in,
or as prelude to, one of those skirmishes (one of the earliest, and a
rather sharp one, "at Trebatsch," in Frankfurt-Lieberose Country,
"4th Sept