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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XIV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER II
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Martin, to the last top-gallant, has vanished clean over the horizon; never to be seen again, though long remembered.

[Tindal's _Rapin,_ xx.

572 (MISdates, and is altogether indistinct); _Gentleman's Magazine,_ xii.

494:--CAME, "Sunday morning, 19th August, n.s.;" "anchored about 4 p.m.;" "2 a.m.of 20th" all agreed; King Carlos's LETTER is GOT, ships prepared for sailing;--sail that night, and to-morrow, 21st, are out of sight.] One wonders, Were Pipes and Hatchway perhaps there, in Martin's squadron?
In what station Commodore Trunnion did then serve in the British Navy?
Vanished ghosts of grim mute sea-kings, there is no record of them but what is itself a kind of ghost! Ghost, or symbolical phantasm, from the brain of that Tobias Smollett; an assistant Surgeon, who served in the body along with them, his singular value altogether unknown."-- King Carlos's Neutrality, obtained in this manner, lasted for a year-and-half; a sensible alleviation to her Hungarian Majesty for the time.

We here quit the Italian War; leaving it to the reader's fancy, on the above terms.
.......
THE SIEGE OF PRAG CONTIMES.


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