Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14


the following title
s'Personal Recolections of Ten Months Residence in
Berlin also, Extracts from Journal kept in Paris during the
Crisis of 1899. BY Major WHITrISGHAa, CD. London
Olivier 1876
Major WHITTNGHAM says OF TRENcK-
Whilst handsome young officer he attracted the regards
and the affections OF Fredercks youngest and yorte
sister, the Princess Amelia who much distinguished
by her beauty and by her exalted rank Alas
philosopher like her brother Her affections therefore
bad their full play in the absence of all religious
o dass sic ervig gunen bliebe
Die schone zert der gungen liebe
sOh that ever fresh below
The course Of youthful love might flow
'But Shakespeare has said that TINT never did run
smooth and the present case was no exception to the illus
trious rule The Great Frederick decidedly objected his
SER becoming Mrs Trenck He the time wished
to avoid all scandal and combine these objects time
10 be lost He therefore gave Tenck, who his aid
decamp, strong hints to mind and mend his conduct His
hints thrown away Who that has been young himself
wonder at the young eunans blindness and obsnacy
Il is not every day that beautiful witty and accomplished
princess sacrifices every thing for the love of simple gentle
man. And was the favored object to risk nothing in return
The secret interviews continued but were fact no secret
10 the penetrating eye OF apowerul king Arrests for
retended military crimes the next adopted
IN the lover and to protect the lady in spite of herself But
ITenck was no sooner freed from these restraints than he
again w for consolation the of his ustrous mis-
res longer incarceration next decreed From this
however, renck made his escape and fled to town beyond
the Pusslan domnons There IN his Indignation against what
ne styled fTedencks tyranny, he forgot what he owed
who had sacrificed for him every thing that the world
holds dear In his blind anger he eparaby injured his royal
mistress. He
Robbed her of that which not enriched him.
And LETT her poor indeed.
He had the audaciy to display large dinner party por
trait OF the Princess Amelia. Frederick could therefore no
vide her with suitable husband. Nothing but vengeance
remained and for this the imprudence Of Trenck soon fur
nsaed the enaged monarch with opportunity which be
did not neglect. The told by Trenck himself who as
regards the Princess Amelia endeavors to atone by his silence
m his book for his verbal garruy. But late he
mad betrayed the and his subsequently affected
work of supererogation. ....0
After the death OF Frederick, and the closing winter of
tier Ses the unhappy lovers again met he broken down
Old man, she an unusually plain old for her deep
despair she had while still young, purposey destroyed her
beauty The interview between hem-they who had parted
young, beautiful devoted each other-must have
been strange and affecting She had always remained faith
fu to her absent imprisoned lover and this fact throws
edeemng grace over the weakness Of her YOUTH and gives
an additional interest to her misfortunes Frederick, who
speced his sisters abilities, up the period his death
KINDER aud attentive her other member of
ms family She the other hand probably that he,
after his own fashion, bad acted all along for her advantage,
returned ms Affection and in her life of she appeared
70 nave had no other consolation than the faena
OF OF the most cold hearted beings existed.
melancholy history scarcely be found in the
immortal hctIons OF genius"
For the sake Of such of our readers as NAV not
ne able to consult sources of information that are
within our own reach, we will add that Trenck
Ioorn at kongsburg 9Th February, 1926 possessed
remarkably fine person, bodily strength almost
herculean, good deal of talent Especially militia
~ but hot temper, rashness and vanity which
made his life little but a series of dangers without
motive and mslortunes scarcely deserving compass
sion. Even while yet at college he signalized his
propensity Tor scrapes by getting into two duels
with lellow-students who had not injured him. He
mad the luck only to wound them both. His birth
ana MS advantages OF person recommended him to
ms sovereign, Frederick the Great who like his
father, had passion for tall fellows" He gave
lrenck at sixteen cadetship in his guards, cult
waited his military talents, promoted him, and gra-
dualiy made him one of his chief favores. Scarce
~ less eager OF literary than of martial renown,
the young hlng was then striving to render Berlin
one vi Tue capitals OF thought, by attracting the
learned to his Court and heapng honors upon them.
Irenck became, through the favor which he enioy-
ed, the acquaintance and the friend of Fredericks
philosophers, Voltaire, Maupertuis &c. whose IA
mllarlty was little calculated to abate his native
presumption The distinction which he enioved
presently blinded him TO the mprudent point of
aspiring to please the young Princess Amelia. the
pretty and ndlscreet sister of that foolish Margra-
vine OF Bareuth, whose absurd memoirs give US an
account so curious of that old brute, the elder FIRE.
derrick, and his doings how he starved his chill
dren beat the officers of his palace, and to solace
Their starvation, banged his Queen and progeny
One would not think this just the education to make
Processes romantic yet Amelia must either, in the
ignorance IN which she was kept, have read what
serves so admirably still to deepen the ignorance oil
young ladies' novels, or the learned company which
her brother afterwards kept infected her with liberal
ISM, and she encouraged Trenck until the sad ca
'astrophe told by Major Nottingham was brought
about.
After several Intellectual attempts to regain his
liberty, Irenck escaped, and made his way to Wen
ma, where the Empress-Queen, Maria Theresa,
gave nm company IN her regiment of cuirassers.
visiting Russia, he had, at his return, the folly to
go to Dantzlc, in order TO settle there with his ia
mily, the parimony left by his mother, lately dead.
Now philosopher Frederick, not being the most for
giving Of mankind, as well as a man quite in the
habit Of keeping his eyes open, had by no means
lost sight OF hls fugitive ex-iavorite; so Trenck
soon found himself seized and on his way to cult
waite, at Magdebourg, that acquaintance with mice
and spiders which was 10 be his CHEF society for
many year. The King, rritated land not unjust
~ by his wanton exposure Of his sisters name,