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BOOK XXI.?AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE?1763-1786.
Chapter I.?PREFATORY. Chapter II.?REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA. LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763). III. SATURDAY, APRIL 3d, IN THE SCHLOSS AGAIN: NUSSLER AND LANDRATHS. To them, the KING. KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763). OF FRIEDRICH'S NEW EXCISE SYSTEM. THE NEUE PALAIS, IN SANS-SOUCI NEIGHBORHOOD, IS FOUNDED AND FINISHED (1763-1770). "OBITUARY IN FRIEDRICH'S CIRCLE TILL 1771." Chapter III.?TROUBLES IN POLAND. KING OF POLAND DIES; AND THERE ENSUE HUGE ANARCHIES IN THAT COUNTRY. EX-LOVER PONIATOWSKI BECOMES KING OF POLAND (7th Sept. 1764), AND IS CROWNED WITHOUT LOSS OF HIS HAIR. FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE DISSIDENT QUESTION CANNOT BE GOT SETTLED; CONFEDERATION OF RADOM (23d June, 1767-5th March, 1768) PUSHES IT INTO SETTLEMENT. CONFEDERATION OF BAR ENSUES, ON THE PER-CONTRA SIDE (March 28th, 1768); AND, AS FIRST RESULT OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS (October 6th, 1768), A TURK-RUSSIAN WAR. Chapter IV.?PARTITION OF POLAND. FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN FRIEDRICH AND KAISER JOSEPH (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769). NEXT YEAR THERE IS A SECOND INTERVIEW; FRIEDRICH MAKING A RETURN-VISIT DURING THE KAISER'S MORAVIAN REVIEWS (Camp of Mahrisch-Neustadt, 3d-7th September, 1770). RUSSIAN-TURK WAR, FIRST TWO CAMPAIGNS. PRINCE HENRI HAS BEEN TO SWEDEN; IS SEEN AT PETERSBURG IN MASQUERADE (on or about New-year's Day, 1771); AND DOES GET HOME, WITH RESULTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT. THE EMPRESS-QUEEN TO PRINCE KAUNITZ (Undated: date must be Vienna, February, 1772). WHAT FRIEDRICH DID WITH HIS NEW ACQUISITION. |