* FRAUDULENT adi. \frau luieux, Fr. fraudulentus, Lat.] 1 Full of artifice; trickish; subtle; deceitful. She mix'd the potion, fraudulent of foul; Supplanted Adam, And frußrated the conqueft fraudulent. Milton. FRAUDULENTLY adr. [from fraudulent] By fraud; by decreit; by artifice; deceitfully.He that by fact, word, or fign, either ƒ audulenty or violent y, does hurt to his neighbour, is bound to make reftitution. Taylor. 90 ) they even elected a ope of their church; at least they appointed a general, with fuperiors, and built monafteries, &c. Besides the opinions of Oliva, they held, that the facraments of the church were invalid; becaufe thofe who adminiftered them, had no longer any power or jurifdiction. They were condemned afresh by pope John XXII. in confequence of whofe cruelty they regarded him as the true antichrift; but several of them returning into Germany were sheltered by Lewis, duke of Bavaria, the mperor. There are authentic records from whom it appears that no less than 2000 perfons were burnt by the inquifition, from 1318 to the time of Innocent VI. for their inflexible atachment to the poverty of St Francis. The feverities against them were again revived towards the clofe of the 15th century, by pope Nicolas V. and his fucceffors. However, all the perfecutions, which this fect endured, were not fufficient to extinguish it; for it fubfifted till the time of the reformation in Germany, when ifs remaining votaries embraced the doctrine and difcipline of Luter. And this has led Popifh writers to charge the Fitricelli with many enormities. fome of which are recounted by Bayle, under the article, FRATRICELLI. They had feveral other denomina. tion: they were called Dulcini, from one of their doctors; Biz chi, Beguins, and Beghurdi. FRATRICIDE. n. f. [ fratricide, French; fratricidiu n, Lat.) The murder of a rother. ATTA, a market town of Italy in the prov. of Rovigo, on the Soortico, containing 6,300 fouls, and many palaces. FRAUBRUNNEN, a town of Switzerland, y miles N. of Bern near which a battle was gained by the Bern fe over an army of English, French, and Normans, under S. de Courcy. (1.) * FRAUD. n. f. [fraus, Lat fraude. Fr] Deceit : cheat; trick; artifice; fubtility; ftratagem. Our better part remains To work in close defign, by fraud or guile, If fuccefs a lover's toil attends, Trea * FRAUDFUL. adj. [fraud and full cherous; artfu; trickifh; ce'tful; fubtle.He, ful of fr udfal arts, This well invented tale for truth imparts Dryd, *FRAUDFU ́LY. alv.{from frau ifu'.] Deceit. fully; artfully; fubtilly; treacherously; yftratagem. FRAUDULENCE. n. f. frau-lelentia, Lat * FRAUDULENCY Deceitfunefs; trickih nefs: proneness to artifice.-We admire the Providence of God, in the continuance of the Scripture, notwithanding the endeavours of infidels to abolish, and the fraudulence of hereticks always to deprave the fame. Hooker. FRAUENBACH, a river of Saxony, which runs into the Loffa, a miles SW. of Colleda, in Thuringia. (1.) FRAUENBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Pilfen, 5 miles SW of Hayd. (2.) FRAUENBERG, a town of Bavaria, in the palatinate of Neuburg, 9 miles NW of Ratisbon. FRAUENBOURG. a town of Pruffia Royal, in Poland, on the river Frisch haff, 6 or 7 leagues from Elbing, to the NE. In the cathedral of Frauembourg is the tomb of the great COPERNICUS, on the subject of which the eminent John BERNOULLI of Berlin wrote to D. S. Earl of Buchan a letter, dated the 22d of Feb. 1794, of which his lordship has favoured us with the following translation:-" In the year 1777, the bishop of Warmia, whom I met in the abbey of Oliva, near Dantzig, told me that be had the pleasure to dif cover, in his cathedral of Frauenbourg, the long neglected tomb of Copernicus. In the year 1778, on my journey to Ruffia paffing through that town, and having nothing to do during my fhort ftay there, that could intereft me more, I went to the cathedral in fearch of this precious monument. I knew nobody in Frauenbourg, but on the street I accofted a canon, whofe counterance and man ner encouraged my address, and I was not difappointed. He told me, that as for the spot where lay interred the afhes of Copernicus, there was no certainty, because it was ufual to place the coffins of the deceafed canons in a vault, where, in the course of time, from their number, it was impof fible to diftinguish them from each other; but that with refpect to the fepulchral tone, it was a flab of marble, such as was ufual for others of the fame ftation, with the fhort infeription, Nic. CoPERNICUS, THOR. That this ffone had been hid. den, from neglect, many years, and afterwards accidentally obferved and placed in the chapter. house of the cathedral, with a view to confider maturally of a proper place for its erection. I regret, however, very much, that I did not make a point with my guide to thew me this ftone, as, if a part of the infcription he not effaced, it does not tally with that recorded by Gaffendi, who lays p. 325, in his life of Copernicus, that bishop Mar tin Gromer, a celebrated Polish historian, caused to be erected to the memory of that great aftronomer unam tabulam marmoream, with this infcription: D. O. M. N. D NICOLAO COPERNICO CANONICO CANONICO VARMIENSI, PRÆSTANTI ASTROLOGO ET EJUS DISCIPLINE INSTAURATORI, MARTINUS CROMERUS EPISCOPUS VARMIENSIS MONORIS ET AD POSTERITATEM MEMORIE CAUSA POSUIT. M,D.LXXXI. Gaffendi adds, that it was 36 years after the death of Copernicus; but this does not agree with the date of our stone My canon had for his apart. ment the Dormitory of Copernicus, and he kindly afked me to pay it a fentimental vifit, an invitation you may believe I accepted with emotion, and enjoyed with pleasure. Above the range of the Dormitories there is another little apartment, which my guide alloted to the memory of his great predeceffor, and which he has decorated with his portrait in oil colous, well preserved, and perhaps only a copy from fome original painting. It was from this place that Copernicus enjoyed a fine fcope of the heavens and a large horizon; here that he made the heavens his ftudy, and rendered himself a luminary of the firft magnitude, in the conftellation of modern aftronomers; and when he found it neceffary to make his obfervations in the open air, there is a little gallery or terrace, that communicates with this apartment, and the adjoining steeple, or beliry, which ferved to accommodate the great Coperni cus in his refearches. You, my Lord, are able to conceive the divine satisfaction I enjoyed in this place!-claffic and sacred!—where I inhaled as it were the spirit of departed greatness! and it was the fhock of these transcendant emotions, that made me to forget the tone I have defcribed in the former part of my letter. my time being elapfed and my carriage ready to depart. Near the cathedral my Canon fhowed me a large refervoir of water, with a high tower which contains the remains of a hydraulic machine, faid to have been invented by Copernicus, for carrying and diftri buting the water by pipes to the different apartments of the canons, his brethren: a convenience now loft, and which, from the ruin of the machine, they are obliged to fetch from a fountain in the lower part of Frauenbourg. I have read in an old German Journal, that in the ancient town of KoNIGSBERG there are or were preserved many of the books belonging to Copernicus at the time of his death, with his portrait in oil colours, which were purchased at Thorn, probably in his house in that town, poffeffed by the family fo late as the year 1720; and in this houfe Copernicus was born."-Frauenbourg was built in 1279, and lies 38 miles SW. of Konigsberg. FRAUENBREITUNGEN, a town of Franconia, in the county of Henneberg, on the Werra, 4 miles W. of Schmalkalden. FRAUENBURG, a town in the duchy of Cour land, 20 miles SSE. of Goldingen. FRAUENFELD, a town of Switzerland, the capital of the late bailiwic of Thurgau. It was taken from the Auftrians by the Swifs in 1460. Great part of it was burnt in 1771. It lies 20 miles NE. of Zurich, Lon. 8.56. E, Lat. 47. 35. N. FRAUENMARCK, a town of Hugary, 6 miles NE. o Levens (1.) FRAUENSTEIN, a caftle of Germany, in Carniola, 5 miles N. of Crainberg. (2) FRAUENSTEIN, a town o Upper Saxony, on the Mulda, in Erzeburg, 11 m. SSE. of Freyberg. FRAUENTHAL, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Stiria, to miles S. of Voitsburg. (I. * FRAUGHT. n.f. {from the participle.] A freight; a cargo The bark that all our bleffings brought, Charg'd with thyself and James, a doubly royal fraught. (2.) FRAGHT. particip. aff. [from fraight, now written feight] Laden; charged.— In the narrow as that part 2. The French and English, there miscarried A veffel of our country, richly fraught. Shak. Flled; ftored; thronged. - The Scripture is fraught even with the laws of nature. Hooker. Abdallah and Belfora were fo fraught with all kinds of knowledge, and poffelled with fo conftant a paffion for each other, that their folitude never lay heavy on them. Addison. *To FRAUGHT. v. a [for freiget, by corruption. To load; to crowd. Hence from my fight: If after this command thou frought the court With thy unworthinefs, thon dy't. Shak. Cymb. * FRAUGHTAGE. n f. [from fraught.] Lading; cargo. A bad word. Our fuughtage, fir, I have convey'd aboard. Shak. Comedy of Err. FRAUHFIM, a town of Germany, in Stiria. FRAUHOFEN, a town of Germany, in Lower Bavaria, 3 miles S. of Landshut. FRAUNBERG, a town of Germany, in Stiria, 7 miles ESE of Oberwoltz. FRAUREUTH, a town of Upper Saxony, in the county of Reufs, 6 miles NE. of Greitz. (1.) FRAUSTADT, a town of Silefia, on the frontiers of Poland, 70 miles NW of Breflau, remarkable for a battle gained by the Swedes over the Saxons in 1706. Lon. 15. 50. E Lat. 51. 45. N. (2.) FRAUSTADT, or WSCHOWA, a town of Poland, on the frontiers of Silefia, and in the palatinate o. Pofen; 48 miles W. of Pofen. FRAUWENLOB, Henry, a German author, who wrote fome books in favour of the fair fex. Dying in 1317, his funeral was attended by a great number of ladies, who poured fo large a quantity of wine over his grave as to overflow the church. FRAW, a river in Anglefea. FRAXINELLA, in botany. See DICTAMNUS. It is remarkable of this odorous plant, that, when in full bloffom, the air which furrounds it in a ftill night, may be inflamed by the approach of a lighted candle. Dr Wation doubts whether this inflammability proceeds from an inflammable air exhaled by th. plant, or from fome of the fier parts of the effential oil of the plant being difiol ved in the common atmospherical air. The latter Mr Cavallo thinks, is most probable, for were it the pure inflammable air, it would, on account of its fmall pecific gravity, leave the plant as foon as it was produced. Common air acquires the property of becoming inflammable, by being transmitted through feveral eflential oils. M2 FRAX. FRAZE, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure and Loire; 12 miles E. of Nogent le Ritou. FRAZERSBURG. See FRASERBURGH. FREA, or FRIGGA, the wife of Odin, or Wo. den, was, next to him, the most revered divinity among the Heathen Saxons, Danes, and other northern nations. As Odin was believed to be tather, Frea was cfteemed the mother of all the other gods In the earliest times, Frea was the fame with the goddess HERTHUS, OF EARTH, who was fo devoutly worshipped by the Angli and other German nations. But when Odin, the conqueror of the north, ufurped the honours due only to the true Odin, his wife Frea ufurped those which had been formerly paid to mother Earth. She was worthipped as the goddefs of love and pleafme, who bestowed on her votaries a variety of delights, particularly happy marriages and easy births. To Frea the fixth day of the week was confecrated, which still bears her name, Friday, or Fren's day. FRAXINUS, the ASH: A genus of the diœcia order, belonging to the po ygamia clafs of plants; and the natural method ranking unde the 44th order. S parie. There is ho hermaphrodite calyx, or it is qua tripartite; and there is either no corolla, or it is tetraperdons; there are two flamina; one, pitil: one lanceolated feed; and the pistil of the female is lanceolated. There are 6 fpecies; of which the moft ufetul is the common afh. See ASH, N° 1. if a wood of these trees is rightly managed it will turn out greatly to the advantage of the owner: for by the underwood, which will b fit to cut every 8 or 10 years, there will be a continual income, incre than fufficient to pay the rent of the ground and all other charges; and ftill there will be a stock preserved for timber, which in a few years will be worth 4cs. or 50s. per tree. This tree flourlines belt in groves, but grows very well in rich fot in open fields. It bears trantpanting and lopping. In Lancashire they lop the tops of these trees to feed the cattle in autumn when the grafs is on the decline; the cattle peeling off the back as food. The wood has the fingular property of being nearly as good when young as what old. It is hard and tough, and is much uied to make the tools employed in husbandry. The afhes of the wood afford very good potaih. The bark is ufed in tanning calf skin. A flight infusion of it appears of a piè yellowith colour when viewed between the eye and the light; but when looked down upon, or placed betwixt the eye and an opske obj. &, it appears blue. This blueness is deftroyed by the addition of an acid, but recovered by alkalis. The feeds are acrid and bitter. In the church yard of Lochaber, Dr Walker measured the trunk of a dead afl tree, which, at 5 feet from the furface of the ground, was 58 feet in circumference →Horfes, cows, theep, and goats eat it but it fpoils the milk of cows. * FRAY.n. f. \effrayer, to tright, Fr. 1. A battle; a fight. He left them to the fates in bloody fray, To toil and ftruggle through the well-fought day. 2. A duel; a combat.-- Pope. The boafter Paris oft defir'd the day With Sparta's king to meet in fingle fray. Pope. 3. A broil; a quarrel; a riot of violence. I'll fpeak between the change of man and boy With a reed voice, and turn two mincing fteps Into a many ftride; and speak of frays, Like a fine bragging youth. Shak. *To FRAY. v. a. leffrayer, Fr.] 1. To fright; to terrify. The panther, knowing that his spotted hide Doth please all beafts, but that his looks them fray, Within a bush his dreadful head doth hide, To let them gaze, whilft he on them may prey. Spenfer. Fishes are thought to be frayed with the motion caufed by noife upon the water. Bacon's Nat. Hift. 2. froper, Fr] To rub. PRAYLES, a cluer of islands in the W. Indies, 6 miles NE. of Margarita. FRAYPONT, a town of France, in the dep. of. Ourte, and ci-devant bishopric of Liege; feated on the Weze; & miles SE. of Liege. * FREAK. 7. f. frecch, Germ. faucy, petulant; free, Sax. fugitive) 1. A fudden and caufelefs change of place. 2. A fudden fancy; a humour; a whim; a capricious prank.— O! but I fear the fickle freaks, quoth she, Of fortune, and the odds of arms in field. F.. When that freak has taken polfestion of a fantaftical head, the diftemper is incurable. L'Ejtr. *To FREAK. . a. [A word, I fuppofe, Scotch, brought into England by Thomson. To variegate z to checquer. There furry nations harbour: * FREAKISH. adj. [from freak.) Capricious; humourfome.-It may be a question, whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two; for the was fill the fame uneafy top. L'Eftr. FREAKISHILY. adv. [from freakifh.] Capriciously; hamourfomely. FREAKISHNESS. n. f. [from freakish.] Ca pricioufnefs; humourfomenefs; whimficalnefs. FREAM, ». . in husbandry, ploughed land worn out of heart, and laid fallow till it recover. *To FREAM. v. n. [fremere, Lat. fremir, Fr.] To growl or grunt as a boar. Bailey. FREATS, or FREITS, n. f. ob. a term ftill ufed in Scotland for ill omens, and fometimes denoting accidents fupernaturally unlucky. K. James VI. in his Dæmonologie, M. pen. Edit. B. 1. ch. IV. p. 13. "But I pray you forget not lykeways to tell what are the Devil's rudimentis? E His rudimentis I call first in general all that quhilk is called vulgaire. lie the virtù of woode, herbe, and staine; quhilk is ufed by unlawfuli charmis without natural caufis. As lykeways ail kynd of prattiques, fritis, or uther lyk extraordinair actions, qubuk cannot dbyde the trea taviche of naturall rafon." It oc curs again in the fame fenfe in p 14, marg. note;, and in p. 41, fpeaking of Sorcerers; "And in generall that naime was gevin thaime for using of fic chairmis and freitis, as that craft teachis thaime.” FRECHILLA, a town of spain, in the province of Leon; 17 miles NW. of Valencia. FRECKELNBEN, a town of Upper Saxony, in Anhalt-Dellau; 30 miles WSW. of D: Bau.. - FRECKENHORST, county, 7 miles N. of Milford, and 88 from Philadelphia. FRECKENHORST, a town of Weftphalia, in the bishop ic of Munfter, I m. SW. of Warendorf. (1.) * FRECKLE. n. 1. flech, a spot, German; whence fleck, freckle.] 1. A spot raised in the fkin by the fu.— Ruddy his lips, and fresh and fair his hue; Some fprinkled freckles on his face were feen, Whofe dufk fet off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden. 2. Any small spot or difcoloration -The farewell frofts and easterly winds now fpot your tulips: therefore cover fuch with mats to prevent freckles.-Evelyn. (2) FRECKLES (LENTIGINES) are spots of a yellowish colour, of the bignefs of a lentile feed, fcattered over the face, neck, and hands. Freckles are either natural, or proceed from the jaundice, or the action of the fun upon the part. Heat, or a fudden change of weather will often make the fkin appear of a darker colour than is natural, and thereby produce what is called tan, lunburn, and morphes; which feem to differ only in degree, and ufially disappear in winter. Perfons of a fine complexion, and those whose hair is red, are most fubject to freckles, especially in parts exposed to the fun and air. To remove freckles, put juice of lemons in a glafs vial, and, mixing it with fugar and borax finely powdered, let it digeft 8 days, and then ufe it. Homberg propofes bullock's gall mixed with alum, and, after the alum has precipitated, exposed 3 or 4 months to the fun in a clofe vial, as one of the beft menftrua for removing freckles. * FRECKLED. adj. [from freckle.] Spotted; maculated; difcoloured with small spots. Sometimes we'll angle at the brook, The freckled trout to take With filken worms. Drayton's Cynthia. Now thy face charms ev'ry thepherd, Swift. FRECKLY. adj. [from freckle.] Full of freckles. FRED. The fame with peace; upon which our forefathers called their fanctuaries fredflole, i.e. the feats of peace. So Frederick is powertal or wealthy in peace; Winfred, victorious peace; Renfred, fincere peace. Gibfon's Camden. FREDBERG, or FREDEBERG, a rich and ftrong town of Germany, in Mitnia, remarkable for its mes, and for being the burying-place of the1 princes and of the houfe of Saxony. It is a delightful place, feated on the river Multa. Lon. 13. 40. E. Lat. 51. 2. N. FREDDO, a river of Sicily, in the valley of Demena, which runs into the Mediterranean. FREDEBURG, or FREDINBURG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, 52 miles E. of Cologn, and 50 W. of Caffe. Lon. 8. 16. E. Lat. 51. 10. N. FREDEGARIUS, an ancient French hiftorian, who wrote a Chronicle, which extends to the year 641; preferved in Duchefne's collection. FREDELAND, a town of Pruffia, in Pomerania, 60 miles SSW: of Dantzick. FREDENBURG. See FREDEBURG. FREDENWALDE, a town of Germany, in Brandenburg, 1 miles S. of Prenzlow. (1.) FREDERICA, a town of Delaware, in Kent (2) FREDERICA, a town of Georgia, on the island of St Simons, at the mouth of the Alatamaha, built and fortified by General Oglethorpe. Lon 81. 25. W. Lat 1. o. N. FREDERICHORDE, a town of Germany, in Upser Saxony 6 miles S. of Gotha. FREDERICHSHULE, a town of Upper Saxony, in the duchy of Croffen, 5 miles SE of Zulichau. FREDERICHSWALDE, a town of Upper Saxony, in Pomerania, on the Ihna, 3 miles NW. of Stargard FREDERICIA, a ftrong fea port town of Denmark, in N. Jutland, feated on the Little Belt. It has a Jewish fynagogue, r Calvinif, 1 Popish, and 2 Lutheran chriches; a cuftom houfe, a grammar fchool, and a good arfenal. Lon 9. 4. E. Lat. 55. 37 N. (I-XI.) FREDERICK, the name of 11 European monarchs, viz. 4 emperors of Germany. 5 kings of Denmark, and kings of Pruffia, and part of the names of other 2 kings of Pruffia, and 2 of Poland. See DENMARK, § 6-8; GERMANY, POLAND, and PRUSSIA. Amongst these we shall here only take notice of the 3 following: He i. FREDERICK, I, king of Pruffia, the fon of Frederick-William, the Great, elector of Brandenburg, was born in 1657; and fucceeded his father in the electorate, A. D. 1688. In 1700, he entered into a negociation with the emperor, Leopold I, to get Pruffia erected into a kingdom; which he at laft obtained by a fingular accident. While appearances were rather unpromifing, he received a letter from his minifter written in ciphers, advifing him to use the intereft of a certain prince; but he mistaking the ciphers, applied to the emperor's confeffor; who, being a Jefuit, was fo much ftruck with the honour done him by a Proteftant ele&tor, that he exerted his whole intereft and that of his order, to procure him the defired object. Frederick was accordingly crowned king of Pruffia, Jan. 18, 1701. was endued with many virtues He was magnificent, generous, conftant to his marriage vows, and ftudied the true intereft of his fubjects, by preferving his dominions in peace. He was three times married: his 2d queen was fifter to king George I. He founded the university of Halle, and the royal academy at Berlin. He died in 1713. ii. FREDERICK II. furnamed the GREAT, K. of Pruffia, one of the greatest warriors the prefent age has produced, was the fon of Frederick-William then hereditary prince of Brandenburg, and princefs Sophia Dorothea, daughter of king George I. He was born in 1712, the year before his father mounted the throne, who was fo far from being a patron of literature, that he regarded nothing but what related to the military art; and moft of his generals fearce knew how to fign their names. His fon was of a difpofition the very reverfe. Being put from his birth under the care of Val de Recoule, a French lady of great merit and understanding, he early acquired a tafte for literature, and a predilection for the French language, which were never obliterated. At 7 years of age, young Frederick was put under the military tuition of of Gen. Count de Finkeftein, and Col. de Kalkftein, officers renowned for courage and experience. He was taught mathematics and fortifica. tion by Major Senning; Han de Jendun, a Frenchman, inftructed him in other branches of know ledge; and a cadet of the name of Kenzel, taught him his exercife. At 8, he was furnished with a fmall arfenal, ftored with all forts of arms pro. portioned to his age and ftrength, of which his father left him abfolute mafter. Soon after he was named captain and chief of the corps of cadets; and he performed every day, in minia ture, with his little foldiers, all the evolutions with which his father exercised his giants. At laft he received the command of a company in his father's famous gigantic regiment, compofed of men of whom scarce ore was short of 7 French feet. Endued however, with a tafte for the arts, he devoted to their cultivation every moment he could escape the vigilance of his guardians. He was particularly fond of poetry and mufic, and when he could find a moment's leifure, read French authors, or played on the flute; but his father, as often as he furprised him playing or reading, broke his flute and threw his books into the fire. The prince, chagrined at this treatment, and having a great defire to vifit Germany, England, France, and Italy, defired permiffion to travel. This, however, his father refufed, but permitted him to accompany himself occafionally into Ger. many; and, in 1728, took him to Drefden to fee the king of Poland. By thefe little expeditions the prince's defire to travel was only the more inflamed; fo that at last he refolved to fet out without his father's knowledge. The defign was intrufted to two of his young friends, named Kat and Keit; money was borrowed, and the day of departure fixed, when unluckily the whole project was difcovered. The old king, implacable in his refentment, and confidering his fon as a deferter, determined to put him to death. He was fhut up in the fortress of Cuftrin; and it was with difficulty that the count de Seckendorf, fent purposely by the emperor Charles VI. was able to alter the king's refolution. Certain vengeance, however, was determined on both his intended affociates. Keit escaped the danger by flying into Holland; but Kat had not that good fortune. The king firft directed that he should be tried by a courtmartial; but as they only fentenced Kat to perpetual imprisonment, the revengeful monarch, by an unheard of exercife of his prerogative, caufed him to be beheaded. The execution was performed under the windows of the prince, whofe face being held towards the fcaffold by 4 grena. diers, he fainted away at the fhocking fight; and during the remainder of his life he confidered capital punishments with fo great a degree of horror, that they were rare throughout his dominions while he reigned. When the emperor had fucceeded in preventing the execution of Frederick, the old king remarked, that "Auftria would one day fee what a ferpent fhe had nourished." The prince remained prifoner a year at Cuftrin; during which time his father wished that he should learn the maxims of government and finance. For this purpofe M. de Muachow, prefident of the chamber of domains nnd finances, was order ed to make him affift at all their affemblies, to confider him as a fimple counsellor and to treat him as fuch. But though Frederick aflifted at their meetings, he did not trouble himself with reading acts or copying decrees. Instead of this he amufed hic felf fometimes with reading French pamphlets, and at others with drawing caricatures of the prefident or members of the affembly. Munchow was alfo very favourable to the prince at this time, by furnishing him with books and other articles of amufement, notwithstanding the exprefs prohibition of his father; though in this he certainly ran a great risk of his life. Frederick, after this, was recalled to Berlin, on pretence of being prefent at the celebration of his eldeft fifter's marriage with the hereditary prince of Barcith; but the true reafon was, that the king had now prepared a match for the prince himself. This was the princess Elizabeth Chriftina of Brunswick, niece to the emprefs. Frederick, who was not only totally indifierent to the fair fex in general, but particularly prejudiced against this princess, made fome objections, his father, however, over. came all obftacles with "his ufual arguments (fays the author of the life of Frederick), viz. his cane, and a few kicks." But the coldness which Frederick at this time fhowed for the fair fex was not natural; for as early as 1723, though then only in his 11th year, he fell in love with the princess Anne, daughter of K. George II. Even at this early period he vowed to refufe every other but her for his confort; nor was his vow ever broken, as far as depended on himfelf. This marriage might have taken place, had it not been for fome differences, which arofe between the courts of Pruffia aud Hanover about a few acres of meadow land, and two or three Hanoverians enlifted by the Pruffian recruiters. The princefs whom he espoused had a large fhare of beauty, and, what was ftill better, an excellent heart; but Frederick is faid to have fuffered fo much in his former amours, that certain unfurmountable impedi. ments remained to the completing of his marriage with any woman. Scarcely therefore was he in bed with his young fpoufe, when a cry of Fire! was raifed by his friends. Frederick got up to fee where the conflagration was, but finding it a false alarm, he feut meffengers to compofe the princess; but neither that night, nor any other, did he ever difturb her reft. On this occafion, Frederick receiv ed from his father the county of Rupin. He refided in Rupin, the capital, for fome time; but afterwards preferred Rheinsberg, which then contained only 1000 inhabitants. Having inscribed over the great gate of the caftle, FREDERICO TRANQUILLITATEM COLENTI, his father was displeased with it, and therefore buried him into the noise and tumult of war. The fucceffion to the crown of Poland had kindled a general war throughout Europe, and the king of Pruffia was to fend 10,000 auxiliaries to the imperial army, then commanded by Prince Eugene. The king conducted his troops in perfon, and took this opportunity of giving his fon an idea of war. At this time, however, he learnt but little, and only faw, as he expreffed it, the fhadow of the great Eugene, That confummate general, however, predicted that he would one day be a great captain. Frede |