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RAG.781.001
2 Jan 1781:21,22 (335)
From the Westminster Magazine. Memoirs of the celebrated
Frederick Baron Trenck, who lately resided in London. . . [1
column describing his service to and subsequent imprisonment
by the King of Prussia] While he was in his cell, and so
secured as to be deprived of all hopes to contrive his
escape, he used to amuse himself in singing Italian airs; a
poor humane soldier, being pleased with his singing,
exclaimed " Sir, I am glad to hear you in such spirits; pray
sing me the song over again:" which the Baron accordingly
did, and the soldier expressed his gratitude; but, to his
great surprize and horror, Trenck found the man hanging
before him the next morning; and it has been said, that the
body remained exposed to his sight until it grew exceedingly
offensive. . .[six more paragraphs describing his release,
reinstatement in Austrian aristocracy, and final quitting of
aristocratic Austrian life to become a merchant of Tokay
wine.]
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