beholding the repeated and generous efforts I made effectually to serve
that state, unnoticed. The Emperor Joseph supposes me old, that the
fruit is wasted, and that the husk only remains. It is also supposed I
should not be satisfied with a little. To continue to oppress him who
has once been oppressed, and who possess qualities that may make
injustice manifest, is the policy of states. My journey to Berlin has
given the slanderer further opportunity of painting me as a suspicious
character: I smile at the ineffectual attempt.

I appeared in the Imperial uniform and belied such insinuations. To this
purpose it was written to court, in November, when I went into Hungary,
"The motions of Trenck ought to be observed in Hungary." Ye poor
malicious blood-suckers of the virtuous! Ye shall not be able to hurt a
hair of my head. Ye cannot injure the man who has sixty years lived in
honour. I will not, in my old age, bring upon myself the reproach of
inconstancy, treachery, or desire of revenge. I will betray no political
secrets: I wish not to injure those by whom I have been injured.--Such
acts I will never commit. I never yet descended to the office of spy,
nor will I die a rewarded villain.

Yes, I appeared in Berlin among the upright and the just. Instead of
being its supposed enemy, I was declared an honour to my country. I
appeared in the Imperial uniform and fulfilled the duties of my station:
and now must the Prussian Trenck return to Austria, there to perform a
father's duty.

Yet more of what happened in Berlin.

Some days after I had been presented to the King, I entreated a private
audience, and on the 12th of February received the following letter:--

"In answer to your letter of the 8th of this month, I inform you that,
if you will come to me to-morrow, at five o'clock in the afternoon, I
shall have the pleasure to speak with you; meantime, I pray God to
take you into his holy keeping.

"FREDERIC WILLIAM.

"Berlin, Feb. 12, 1787."

"P.S.--After signing the above, I find it more convenient to appoint
to-morrow, at nine in the morning, about which time you will come into
the apartment named the Marmor Kammer (marble chamber)."

The anxiety with which I expected this wished-for interview may well be
conceived. I found the Prussian Titus alone, and he continued in
conversation with me more than an hour.

How kind was the monarch! How great! How nobly did he consol