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-- KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE.
Meanwhile, over at Warsaw, there has an Event fallen out.

Friedrich, writing rapidly from vague reminiscence, as he often does, records it as "during the marriage festivities;" [_OEuvres (Memoires de Brandenbourg),_ i.

163.] but it was four good months earlier.

Event we must now look at for a moment.
In the end of January last, we left Grumkow in a low and hypochondriacal state, much shaken by that drinking-bout at Crossen, when the Polish Majesty and he were so anxious to pump one another, by copious priming with Hungary wine.