Holcroft earned also by translation. He translated, besides these
Memoirs of Baron Trenck, Mirabeau's Secret History of the Court of
Berlin, Les Veillees du Chateau of Madame de Genlis, and the
posthumous works of Frederick II., King of Prussia, in thirteen
volumes.

The Memoirs of Baron Trenck were first published at Berlin as his
Merkwurdige Lebensbeschreibung, in three volumes octavo, in 1786 and
1787. They were first translated into French by Baron Bock (Metz,
1787); more fully by Letourneur (Paris, 1788); and again by himself
(Strasbourg, 1788), with considerable additions. Holcroft
translated from the French versions.

H.M.



THE LIFE OF BARON TRENCK.



CHAPTER I.



Blessed shade of a beloved sister! The sacrifice of my adverse and
dreadful fate! Thee could I never avenge! Thee could the blood of
Weingarten never appease! No asylum, however sacred, should have
secured him, had he not sought that last of asylums for human
wickedness and human woes--the grave! To thee do I dedicate these