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They have done their duty on every occasion, and 'crowned the Prussian name with immortal glory. On my own part I shall neglect no opportunity of 'giving them proofs of my satisfaction. I am moreover fully per'suaded, that the staff-officers and all the officers in general will do their utmost to preserve that good order and military discipline which have hitherto contributed to render the army invincible, and that they will restore them whereever they might have been relaxed. For this purpose I recommend to you, as well as to

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peruse with attention, and dili gently to observe, all my military ordinances and regulations.

• FREDERICK.' Potsdam, Jun. 1st, 1746.'

"In his colonel-squadron was an hussar whose bravery and intelligence had so far gained his esteem that he was desirous to advance him and to make his fortune. Before he named him to the rank of a subaltern, he wished to be convinced of his probity; and one day when the hussar had returned from a foraging party, Zieten making up to him, ordered him to alight; and after having examined his load, discovered two geese concealed in a bundle of straw. The general thereupon not only testified his dis-your staff and other officers, to approbation of such conduct in the most severe terms, but could not refrain from making him sensible of what he had lost on the occasion. You were on the point of being ⚫ made a subaltern,' said he, and you shall now remain a common soldier.' The hussar, in effect, was not advanced till a year after. "Peace being concluded, the army returned to their respective garrisons. The king, who had been no stranger to the little negligences and abuses which, during the war, had crept in among the troops, was extremely solicitous to remedy them and to re-establish due discipline and order. The let ter which his majesty wrote to Zieten is the more worthy of the reader's notice, as it shows what obligation he considered himself under to his troops, and the justice which he was pleased to do them.

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"Attentive to the commands of his sovereign, Zieten strove to restore that order in his regiment which a camp-life had interrupted; and to establish that uniformity of action, that salutary restraint, that scrupulous exactness, which, during their residence in garrison, prepares the troops for the more important duties of the campaign.

"The last letter from the king to Zieten, is an answer to one which the general had written him on the return of the new year.

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My dear. General de Zieten, I feel the value of your good wishes, and am truly grateful for them. I wish, in return, that your strength may be renewed, and firmly established, and that yourhealth may equal your contentment. The accomplishment of these wishes, • would afford me the highest degree ⚫ of satisfaction; and I remain your very affectionate king,

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"Several circumstances have given rise to a belief that the king had a presentiment of the approaching dissolution of his general-a man, indeed, on the verge of eighty-six, must naturally have been expected to die soon; and that the public, ever fond of the marvellous, should choose to make a miracle of his majesty's apprehensions, is likewise far from having any thing extraordinary in it.

"A peculiar incident soon enabled the great Frederick to give his general a last proof of the high esteem he bore him, and of the manner in which he was pleased to recompense true merit.

"It happened in the course of the winter of 1785, the king had returned to Berlin in a bad state of health. On the 22d of December, Zieten, in spite of the burden of eighty-six years, went to the palace at the end of the parade, to pay his sovereign this last tribute of respect, and to have the pleasure of seeing him after six months' absence. The parole was given out, the orders imparted to the generals, and the king had turned to wards the princes of the blood, when he perceived Zieten on the other side of the hall, between his son and histwo aide-de-camps. Surprised in a very agreeable manner at this unexpected sight, he broke out into an exclamation of joy, and directly making up to himWhat, my good old Zieten! are you there? said his majesty: how sorry am I, that you have had the trouble of walking up the stair-case! I should have called upon you myself. How have you been of late? Sire,' answered. Zieten, my health is not amiss my appetite is good; but my strength-my strength!' This account,' replied the king, makes

me happy by halves only-but you must be tired; I shall have a chair for you.' A chair was quickly brought. Zieten, however, declared that he was not at all fa tigued the king maintained that he was. Sit down, good father,' continued his majesty, 'I will have it so, otherwise I must instantly leave the room; for I cannot al low you to be incommoded under my own roof. The old general obeyed, and Frederick the Great remained standing before him, in the midst of a brilliant circle that had thronged around them. After asking him many questions respecting his hearing, his memory, and the general state of his health, he at length took leave of him in these words- Adieu, my dear Zieten! (it was his last adieu) take, care not to catch cold-nurse your. self well, and live as long as you can, that I may often have the pleasure of seeing you.' After having said this, the king, instead of speaking to the other generals, and walking through the saloons as usual, retired abruptly, and shut himself up in his closet.

"This interesting scene, equally worthy of Frederick and of Zieten, brought tears into the eyes of the hardiest of the spectators. Zieten was himself too much affected to be able to shed any; nor can language describe what he felt on the occasion. The graver of Chodo wiecki has preserved this interview in a plate, which, among its other excellences is remarkable for the likenesses, of the group, and which is well known throughout all Europe.

The sun of Zieten hastened apace to its decline, and the edifice of his bodily frame fell fast into decay. He had now scarcely any desires to animate him; he had drunk out the

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cup of life, and had fully tasted of its glory and its enjoyments. His favourite wish, of living to an advanced age, had been granted him; he had run his long career with a conscience völd of reproach, and he began to feel the want of repose; he cherished the hope of immortality, and prepared for death as an event he neither desired nor feared.

"He was now in his eighty-sixth year; and on the 25th of January, after having taken a ride in his carriage with madame de Zieten, he felt himself in such spirits, that he planned an excursion to Wus trau with her, and from thence to his brother-in-law, who had invited him to stand godfather to his child. He spent the evening at home, and was remarkably goodhumoured; conversed gaily with his children, and observed to his youngest daughter that he hoped soon to see her dressed in a new

gown he had just bought her. They all sat down to supper, when, on a sudden, and for the first time in his life, Zieten complained of being unwell. The consternation was general: every possible assistance was administered to him; and in a little time he grew better. He then went to bed, and the family had no apprehensions of a relapse.

"The night, which was the last of his life, afforded him but little rest. He was heard to pray aloud, and at several different times. At four in the morning, he called his valet ; who, on entering the room, saw the image of death upon his master's countenance. He immediately rung for assistance. The dying man had not, however, lost his senses: he coughed, and spat; asked if it was blood; and, before any assistance came, or his valet could answer his question, Zieten was no more."

MEMOIRS Of RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE, Esq.

[From the AcCOUNT prefixed to his Woaks, by his Son, Mr. G. O. CAMBRIDGE.]

"R

ICHARD CAMBRIDGE was born in London, the 14th of February, in the year 1717. He was descended from a family, that had been for several generations established in Gloucestershire: his father, being a younger brother, was bred to business as a Turkey merchant, and resided chiefly in London until the time of his death, which happened not long after the birth of his son, who, upon this event, was left to the care of his mother, and of her brother, Thomas Owen, esq.

"This gentleman had followed

the profession of the law, but was, at that time, retired to Britwell Place in Buckinghamshire; and, as he had no children, he adopted his nephew as his future representative, undertaking the superinten dence of his education, and receiving him at his house during the vacations from school and the university.

"My father was sent early to Eton, where, amongst his principal friends and associates, were Mr. Bryant, Mr. Gray, Mr. West, Mr, Aldworth Neville, lord Sandwich, the honourable Horace Wal. P 3

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pole, Dr. Barnard (afterwards master and provost of Èton), Dr. Cooke (the late dean of Ely), besides many others who became known in the world as men of taste and learning, with most of whom he formed a friendship, which lasted through their respective lives.

"Here also commenced that friendship with Mr. Henry Berkeley, which, though dissolved at an early period by his death, was, during its continuance, of the most affectionate kind, and left on the mind of his surviving friend a tender remembrance, and poignant regret for his loss, which never were effaced,

"To school exercises my father professed not to have paid laborious attention; and I have often heard him attribute his never having received punishment to the good nature and forbearance of his master, Dr. George. But more, perhaps, was due, than he allowed or imagined, to an unusual quick ness of parts, which enabled him to acquire whatever he applied his mind to, without much pains or

exertion.

"His time, however, at Eton was far from being idly spent; for whilst he was ever foremost in the active sports suited to his age, he still found leisure to read several of the Greek and Roman historians; but as character was always his favourite study, the ancient dramatic writers, and other poets, by whom the passions of men are most correctly delineated, were preferred by him with the best of these he was familiar before he went to the university; and, as he possessed a merory uncommonly retentive, what he read at school he could readily refer to at any subsequent part of his life, and name almost the page and line where the passage might

be found. He was also conversant with the best writers of the English drama; of our own Shakspeare he was a warm and judicious admirer, and had acted some of the principal parts in his and other of our best plays with singular success. His performance of Falstaff, and of Torrismond in the Spanish Friar, were always mentioned by his schoolfel lows as being particularly excellent, as also of Micio in the Adelphi of Terence. His chief associates in these theatrical exercises, were Mr. Neville, Mr. West, Dr. Barnard, Mr. Berkeley; and, in the Latin play, Mr. Bryant,

"In the midst of his application to graver studies, and these more lively exertions of genius, he manifested an early relish for the tran quil beauties of nature. The trans parent stream of the Thames, and the picturesque scenes in the neighbourhood of Eton and Windsor, appear to have made the same impression upon his mind, as they did upon that of his schoolfellow Mr. Gray: and whilst in the contemplative fancy of the one, they produced the celebrated Ode on a distant View of Eton College, they formed in the active mind of the other, a taste for the varied combi nations of wood, water, and lawn, which was exercised with great success, first at his seat in Ĝloucestershire, and afterwards in the meadows at Twickenham: these exhibit a pleasing memorial of his skill in landscape scenery, the relish for which he always professed to have acquired in the playing fields of Eton school.

"From Eton my father was removed to St. John's-college in Ox. ford, where he entered as a gentleman-commoner in 1734. His studies at the university were carried on much in the same manner as at

Eton.

Eton. No day was passed without some acquisition of knowledge either in literature, mechanics, the polite arts, or other useful improve ments: yet without any appear ance of severe study, or of his wish ing to be thought a distinguished scholar.

"For the ordinary diversions of the field, to which country gentlemen usually devote so much of their time and talents, my father had no relish; but instead of the gun, he took up the exercise of shooting with the bow and arrow, in which he acquired such a de. gree of dexterity, as with a little further practice might have enabled him to enter the lists with William Tell; or the man recorded in the Scribleriad, who depriv. ed Philip of the sight of one of his eyes with an arrow, which was addressed "To Philip's right Eye." The head of a duck, swimming in the river, was a favourite mark, which he seldom missed; he likewise shot many small birds perching on trees, and some of the larger sort he has brought down when upon the wing; until happening to see one of his arrows, that had accidentally dropped into a post, he was struck with the hazard he ran of injuring some fellow creature, and from that time relinquished this amusement. But as shooting fish was not liable to any risk, he continued that diversion, with arrows made for the purpose by the Indians of Ameri ca, and was almost as expert in the use of them. Whatever pursuit he engaged in, he followed with uncommon ardour, and seldom desisted until he had reached the extent of the subject: this fondness for the bow, therefore, induced him to collect specimens of all the

bows and arrows that could be met with in different parts of the world, and to make himself acquainted with the precise methods of using them. He likewise procured whatever books he could find upon the subject of archery, particularly those which related to the laws and practice of the old English bowmen, as well as what remained respecting the use of those weapons among the ancients.

"About the year 1748, the death of Mr. Owen put his nephew in possession of that gentleman's property, which, though not very extensive, was an acceptable addition to the small income upon which he had hitherto lived; and, by his uncle's desire, he added the name of Owen to his own, He was now enabled to cultivate, more at his ease, that very select society to which he had access; he accordingly took a house in London, near his friend Mr. Villiers, where he passed two winters, but found the air disagree with his own and my mother's health; not choosing, however, to forego the pleasure of that more general intercourse, for which he had so much relish, he determined to alter his plan, and, quitting his seat in Gloucestershire, to settle himself in the neighbourhood of London, where he might at once enjoy the advantage of country air, and a constant communication with the world. It happened fortunately, that a villa on the banks of the Thames, immediately opposite to Richmond hill, was then upon sale; which, from its situ, ation, seemed to be a residence particularly suited to him; accordingly, in the year 1751, he made the purchase, and established himself at Twickenham; an event which contributed essentially to

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