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Updated: October 26, 2026
Pay it you must. 'Cannot; simply impossible. 'Possible, we tell you, and also certain; we will burn your Leipzig if you don't! And they actually, these Collector fellows, a stony-hearted set, who had a percentage of their own on the sums levied, got soldiers drawn out more than once pitch-link in hand, as if for immediate burning: hut the Leipzigers thought to themselves, 'King Friedrich is not a Soltikof! and openly laughed at those pitch-links.
Only that final scene of the pitch-links, the night before meeting with Nassau, dwells voluntarily in one's memory. And is the farewell of Einsiedel withal. Friedrich blames him to the last: though a Court-Martial had sat on his case, some months after, and honorably acquitted him.
Good solid, silent Einsiedel; and in some months more, he went to a still higher court, got still stricter justice: I do not hear expressly that it was the winter marches, or strain of mind; but he died in 1745; and that flare of pitch-links in Rubezahl's country is the last scene of him to us, and the end of Friedrich's unfortunate First Expedition in the Second Silesian War.