'I shall go to Konigsberg,' writes Baron Trenck, 'and there do in the presence of the king what no one has done before me, and what no one will do after me.' Does not this make his intention pretty clear ?" "Only for those who know his intentions or suspect them, for others they could have any other signification, some romantic threat, nothing more.
Baron Trenck is a known adventurer, a species of Don Quixote, always fighting against windmills, and believing that warriors and kings honor him so far as to be his enemies.

I punished Trenck when he was in my service, for insubordination; now he is no longer in my service, and I have forgotten him, but woe be unto him if he forces me to remember him!" "Your majesty will soon see if he is falsely accused.

These reliable and irreproachable men came especially to warn your majesty, through me.

You will discover if they have calumniated Trenck, by giving this testimony.
If he does not go to Dantzic, does not enter Prussia, they have sworn falsely, and Trenck is innocent." "He will not dare to cross the borders of my state, for he knows he will be court-martialled as a deserter.

But I am convinced that he is a bold adventurer, he has boasted that he will defy me, that is certainly what no one has done before him, and what no one will do after him, but it will rest there, you may believe me." Baron Weingarten bowed silently.