This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EXAMINATION. Terror reigned in Berlin since the receipt of the news from Wesel. The King, on the day of the arrest, had written one letter to the Queen, and another to Madame von Kamken: 'My Dear Madame Von Kamken, Unfortunately the misfortune (leider das Un glilcK) has come upon me that my son ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EXAMINATION. Terror reigned in Berlin since the receipt of the news from Wesel. The King, on the day of the arrest, had written one letter to the Queen, and another to Madame von Kamken: 'My Dear Madame Von Kamken, Unfortunately the misfortune (leider das Un glilcK) has come upon me that my son has tried to desert with Keith the page. I have had him arrested. I have written to my wife. You must see that, although she may be miserable for a few days, she does not fall ill. '! am, your faithful friend, 'frederick William.' The letter to the Queen has been lost; the one that Wilhelmina has given in her memoirs is certainly not genuine. Frederick William, at the moment when he was taking precautions to diminish the severity of the blow that had to be inflicted upon his wife, would surely not have written to her that he intended to kill her son. It is probable, as the English and French ministers state, that after relating the facts and the interrogation of the Prince, and the manner in which the latter had behaved, he announced to the Queen his arrest, and the orders he had given to have Fritz conveyed to a fortress.t We have no right to believe that the King's fury utterly deprived him of every feeling of humanity. In the note to Madame von Kamken we find tenderness, though of a strange kind. Koser, p. 49. t Guy Dickens, August 19, in Raumer, pp. 518, 519; Sauveterre, A.-E., Prussia, 1730, August 10. From Wesel, also, the King had issued orders for the arrest of Katte, who had remained quietly in Berlin, thinking that the Prince had renounced his scheme, as he, the indispensable companion, had been unable to join him. He had gone to spend the day of August 15 in the country, by permission of FieldMarshal Natzmer, commanding the...
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black and yellow cloth binding with eagle emblem, decorated endpapers, antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated (1892) bookplate. 471 pp. Spine cloth torn, neatly glued down, soiling to boards, hinges cracked front and rear. Good.
