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Memoirs Of The Late Colonel Frederick.
coming pride of their descent , they have not engaged in any of those " occupations generally assigned to children of a lower ori gin . For some time Frederick was employed by the East India Company to raise German recruits ; and under a former administration of Lord Shelburne . ( now marquis of Lansdowne ) , he was involved in some difficulties respecting a regiment of German troops that landed in this country . Frederick presented memorialsas we have
many , heard , to Lord Shelburne on this subject , desiring an opportunity of vindicating his conduct , but never could obtain a proper hearing , and , as the noble Lord went soon after out of office , the affair was dropped . About the year 1791 , he was employed upon a certain loan that was negotiated at Antwerp , and his expences attending three or four visits to that placewere defrayed bhis employersbutas the matter could
, y ; , not be settled for want of proper authority , it ended without any advantage to Frederick , who indeed never could return to that place , where he had many powerful friends , because a part of the money intended for the loan had been put into the hands of bankers , and consequently Frederick , as ostensible agent in the business , would * have been called upon for the interest , which he had no means of
paying . Of the-curious circumstances of this transaction , which - excited much conversation at the time , it was his intention to publish a full account . Jn the year 176 S , he produced a short history of Corsica , which he dedicated to his patron the late duke of Wirtemberg . It was written at the desire of the late duke of York , and presented , to his Royal Highness in manuscript ; but copies having been circulated , Frederick published it under his own name .
This work was republished , with considerable additions , soon after Corsica became annexed to the British crown ; but he declared , that he never derived the least advantage from the new edition , and was , as he stated , even afraid to insist upon an account of the sale from the bookseller , lest a bill should be brought against him , and his inability to discharge it only plunge him in additional necessity . He was the chief companion of the present king of Poland ( if we
may still call the amiable and unfortunate monarch by that name ) , while in this country , ^ nd used to relate a curious anecdote of dining with the king , then count Poniatowski , at an obscure coffee-house in tiie city , where each relied upon the other for money to pay the expences of a very moderate dinner ; but both were too necessitous , and Frederick was ^ obliged to pledge his watch to liberate himself and the future monarch of Poland
. Frederick was . well acquainted with human nature , and personally knevv most of the distinguished characters who have figured on the continent for the last fifty years . He was very polite and communicative in his manners , and , at times , assumed a certain degree of dignity very impressive . He abounded in anecdotes respecting the se-. cret history of most of the courts of Europe , but more particularly relative to all military characters of any celebrity in his time . The misfortunes of Theodore involved Frederick , and deprived
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Memoirs Of The Late Colonel Frederick.
coming pride of their descent , they have not engaged in any of those " occupations generally assigned to children of a lower ori gin . For some time Frederick was employed by the East India Company to raise German recruits ; and under a former administration of Lord Shelburne . ( now marquis of Lansdowne ) , he was involved in some difficulties respecting a regiment of German troops that landed in this country . Frederick presented memorialsas we have
many , heard , to Lord Shelburne on this subject , desiring an opportunity of vindicating his conduct , but never could obtain a proper hearing , and , as the noble Lord went soon after out of office , the affair was dropped . About the year 1791 , he was employed upon a certain loan that was negotiated at Antwerp , and his expences attending three or four visits to that placewere defrayed bhis employersbutas the matter could
, y ; , not be settled for want of proper authority , it ended without any advantage to Frederick , who indeed never could return to that place , where he had many powerful friends , because a part of the money intended for the loan had been put into the hands of bankers , and consequently Frederick , as ostensible agent in the business , would * have been called upon for the interest , which he had no means of
paying . Of the-curious circumstances of this transaction , which - excited much conversation at the time , it was his intention to publish a full account . Jn the year 176 S , he produced a short history of Corsica , which he dedicated to his patron the late duke of Wirtemberg . It was written at the desire of the late duke of York , and presented , to his Royal Highness in manuscript ; but copies having been circulated , Frederick published it under his own name .
This work was republished , with considerable additions , soon after Corsica became annexed to the British crown ; but he declared , that he never derived the least advantage from the new edition , and was , as he stated , even afraid to insist upon an account of the sale from the bookseller , lest a bill should be brought against him , and his inability to discharge it only plunge him in additional necessity . He was the chief companion of the present king of Poland ( if we
may still call the amiable and unfortunate monarch by that name ) , while in this country , ^ nd used to relate a curious anecdote of dining with the king , then count Poniatowski , at an obscure coffee-house in tiie city , where each relied upon the other for money to pay the expences of a very moderate dinner ; but both were too necessitous , and Frederick was ^ obliged to pledge his watch to liberate himself and the future monarch of Poland
. Frederick was . well acquainted with human nature , and personally knevv most of the distinguished characters who have figured on the continent for the last fifty years . He was very polite and communicative in his manners , and , at times , assumed a certain degree of dignity very impressive . He abounded in anecdotes respecting the se-. cret history of most of the courts of Europe , but more particularly relative to all military characters of any celebrity in his time . The misfortunes of Theodore involved Frederick , and deprived