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In the road a big, bearded man was crawling on his hands and knees away from a dead horse. His helmet fell off in the dust. Jack gathered the reins and called to the horse. As the heavy cart moved off, the ground began to tremble again with the shock of on-coming horses, and again, through the swelling tumult, he caught the cry "Hurrah! Preussen!" The Prussian cuirassiers were coming back.
"At the time of Friedrich's visit, the Asiatic Company is in full vogue; making ready its first ship for Canton. The first of them, KONIG VON PREUSSEN, had been boarded in the Downs by an English Captain Thomson and his Frigate, and detained some days, till Thomson 'took Seven English seamen out of her. 'Act of Parliament, express! said his Grace of Newcastle.
From Henry the Fowler's capture of Brannibor, count seventy years, we find Henry's great-grandson reigning as Elective Kaiser, Otto III., last of the direct "Saxon Kaisers," Otto Wonder of the World; and alongside of Otto's great transactions, which were once called MIRABILIA MUNDI and are now fallen so extinct, there is the following small transaction, a new attempt to preach in Preussen, going on, which, contrariwise, is still worth taking notice of.
Drums were beating somewhere in the distant forest shrill, treble drums and from every hill-side the hollow, harsh Prussian trumpets spoke. Then came a sound, deep, menacing a far cry: "Hourra! Preussen!" "Why don't you cheer?" faltered Lorraine, mounting the terrace. The artillerymen looked at her in surprise. Jack caught her arm; she shook him off impatiently. "Cheer!" she cried again.
"And it was merely our pretended Allies and Protectors that have desecrated our divine service, utterly wasted our Country, reduced the inhabitants to want and desperation, and, in short, have so behaved that you would not know this region again. Truly these troops have realized for us most of the infamies we heard reported of the Cossacks, and their ravagings in Preussen lately.
In this manner did its revolted children fling out Teutsch Ritterdom ignominiously to the dogs, to the Polacks, first of all, Thorn, the eldest child, leading off or setting the example." All readers have heard of the Partition of Poland: but of the Partition of Preussen, 307 years before, all have not heard.
In Magdeburg we remember what trouble Friedrich Wilhelm had with his unreasonable Ritters. Ritters there, in their assembled capacity, had the Reich behind them, and could not be dealt with like Preussen: but Friedrich Wilhelm, by wise slow methods, managed Magdeburg too, and reduced it to silence, or to words necessary for despatch of business.
History is full of those examples: but I have found none equal to the one we now see; nor any War as inhuman and as cruel among civilized nations. You would sigh if you knew the sad situation of Germany and Preussen. I wish you all the happiness imaginable. If Fortune ever favor us again, count on all my gratitude.
Let the Teutsch Order come to Preussen; head a Crusade there. Hermann, a man of sagacious clear head, listens attentively. Year 1225, thinks Dryasdust, after a struggle. In the name of Heaven, we may still say in a true sense; as they, every Ritter of them to the heart, felt it to be in all manner of senses.
From what, Ritters were in Preussen, he might perhaps expect promptitude to fight, if it came to that; which was not much as things stood. But that is not quite the case.
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