brutal sort of banditti. He offered to capture Frederick of
Prussia, and did capture his tent. Many more of his adventures are
vaingloriously recounted by himself in the Memoires du Baron Franz
de Trenck, published at Paris in 1787. This Trenck took poison when
imprisoned at Gratz, and died in October, 1747, at the age of
thirty-six.

His cousin Frederick is the Trenck who here tells a story of himself
that abounds in lively illustration of the days of Frederick the
Great. He professes that Frederick the King owed him a grudge,
because Frederick the Trenck had, when eighteen years old,
fascinated the Princess Amalie at a ball. But as Frederick the
Greater was in correspondence with his cousin Franz at the time when
that redoubtable personage was planning the seizure of Frederick the
Great, there may have been better ground for the Trenck's arrest
than he allows us to imagine. Mr. Carlyle shows that Frederick von
der Trenck had been three months in prison, and was still in prison,
at the time of the battle of the Sohr, in which he professes to have
been engaged. Frederick von der Trenck, after his release from
imprisonment in 1763, married a burgomaster's daughter, and went
into business as a wine merchant. Then he became adventurous again.
His adventures, published in German in 1786-7, and in his own French
version in 1788, formed one of the most popular books of its time.
Seven plays were founded on them, and ladies in Paris wore their
bonnets a la Trenck. But the French finally guillotined the author,
when within a year of threescore and ten, on the 26th of July, 1794.
He had gone to Paris in 1792, and joined there in the strife of
parties. At the guillotine he struggled with the executioner.

H.M.