This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1770 Excerpt: ... bnmy 23. 1762, precisely three years and an half, to a very day, after all the protestant allies in Germany had been laid under the ban of the empire. Here let us stop a little, and reflect, that, not long before this memorable event, his Prussian Majesty, (the head of the protestant allies), was reduced to the greatest extremity of danger and distress. He seemed to be devoted to certain destruction. Many of his best troops had either been destroyed or made prisoners. Schweidnitz, his strongest fortress in Silesia, and the very key to his dominions, was taken by the Austrians on the 14th of the preceding October; and Colbcrg, his greatest bulwark against the Russians, had been surrendered to them on the 17th of the following December. By these decisive blows, a wide door was fully opened to the one part by land, and the other by sea, for pouring forth their numerous legions into the heart of his country; and, which seemed to crown all his misfortunes, the two empresses, as, if they had been absolutely sure of a total conquest of his dominions, had obliged his subjects, where-ever their arms prevailed, in Pomtrania, lrussia, and Silesia, to swear allegiance to them. But, when the fatal and sinishing blow was ready to be given, the just, the wise, and powerful Governor of the universe interposed, and, by one stroke, namely, the death of his implacable enemy the late Czarina, diiconceited all their cruel and ambitious schemes. This happened only nineteen days after the surrender of Colberg. And it must be allowed, what virtues soever this princess might have possessed, yet since, in the last part of her reign, she was wholly under the influence of the popish league, that her death was a most critical and favourable event to the protestant interest, and cauic o...
