officers, who called upon Zieten, and in the course of conversation asked him, as if by mere accident, what he intended to do in case a war should break out: he likewise made particular inquiry into the state of his health, and hoped it would not prevent his joining the army. Zieten was not unprepared for the visit: he suspected the object of it, and received the royal emissary with suitable dignity and caution. "It is absolutely impossible," he replied, "for me to undertake the campaign. Since I lost the king's favour, I have been a continual prey to vexations which have impaired my health and depressed my courage. I cannot see in what manner I can be useful. I can neither change my tactics nor my conduct: unfortunately, both have displeased the king, and involved me in disgrace. With principles like mine, it is impossible to serve: I shall be an incumbrance to the army, a mere machine without spring or motion." The visitor urged every thing that he could suggest by way of counteracting this resolution; and on pretence of the warm interest which he took in the general's welfare, began to insinuate with all the art of a courtier, that it would cost him nothing to be reinstated in the good graces of the monarch; that a single word

would remove every obstacle. Zieten however would not accept a pardon from the king: it was justice, not pardon, that he looked for at his hands; nor could he condescend to owe that justice to the intercession of an enemy. therefore remained firm in his purpose.

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Frederic had the return of Zieten too much at heart, not to determine on making another attempt. What had been refused to the favourite, might, he conceived, be granted to the monarch; the subject, he hoped, might yield to the solicitation of his sovereign. He therefore resolved to call himself upon Zieten, and alone. Frederic hoped that his eloquence would prove a cure for the general's assumed indisposition. He at first attempted to make him acknowledge his faults, and was desirous to persuade him that he himself had been the sole cause of the misunderstanding which had so long subsisted between them. He ended his harangue with a promise of forgetting every thing that had passed, and held out his hand in token of reconciliation.

The king thought he had now done all that was necessary; and indeed he had done much for a prince like Frederic the Great. But he went too far with Zieten, when he required him to take upon himself the whole of the blame;

to acknowledge faults of which he had not been guilty, and negligences which he had not fallen into; and to consider as a favour the recovery of the good graces of his sovereign. The wrongs of which Zieten had to complain, were too deeply rooted in his memory. In the struggle that was necessary to enable him to tear himself from his king and country, his feelings had been too teeply wounded to admit of an easy cure. He listened in profound silence to the representa→ tions of the monarch: but he heard them with out yielding himself up to them; and the moment of reconciliation began to appear more distant than ever, when the good Genius of Prussia prompted Frederic with the following words:

No; it cannot be possible that Zieten, my faithful general, on the approach of a perilous war, should abandon his king and country, whose confidence he so fully possesses!" These few words triumphed over the firmness of the hero, and found the way to his heart. He threw himself at the monarch's feet, and vowed to shed the last drop of his blood in his service.

THE love of our country, far from being an unsocial sentiment, is what, above every other, attaches us the most strongly to our parents, 4o our wives, our children, our friends, and to

those scenes and places which are endeared to us by our earliest pleasures. How then, we may ask, can such a principle inspire us with a hatred of the rest of the world?

AN officer who is not in the service of his own country, ought to consider that as his country for which he bears arins. He is bound to it by the engagements he has contracted, by the post which his prince has entrusted him with, and by the protection he enjoys under his government: he therefore owes to him the same fidelity, zeal, and attachment, as he would have manifested towards the country that gave him birth.

. THE Swedes pressed with irresistible vigour the siege of Copenhagen. The fortress of Rendsbourg, in Holstein, was the only place by which the land succours could be conveyed to the besieged. On taking this town, Copenhagen must have been compelled to surrender; but the place was strong, the garrison numerous, and the commander a man of great reputation. The duke of Holstein, who was in the interest of the Swedes, hoped to deprive Copenhagen of this resource. He made an offer to the inhabitants of Rendsbourg to take them under his protection, to provide for their safety by means of the troops he had then with hun, and promised to obtain for

them the neutrality of his cousin the king of Sweden. The father of the commandant, being in the duke's service, was the person pitched upon to convey these proposals. "It would have been difficult to persuade me," said the son to him, "that you were capable of making me a proposition of this nature: allow me to say, that were you not my father, I should not have listened to it with patience, and a dungeon should have been the punishment of such insolence." The father, who was influenced only by the motive of duty towards the prince whom he served, replied: "Thus far have I spoken to you as a subject of the duke; but as your father, I declare to you, that if you had had the weakness to discover the least inclination of surrendering the fortress which is confided to your charge, I should have been the first to treat you as a traitor and a rebel, and to declare you unworthy of the name you bear."