person capable of rendering the state essential service,
as a military man; but he was my brother, and the King would never suffer
his name to be mentioned.

My youngest brother applied himself to the sciences; it was proposed that
he should receive some civil employment, as he was an intelligent and
well-informed man; but the King answered in the margin of the petition,

"No Trenck is good for anything."

Thus have all my family suffered, because of my unjust condemnation. My
last-mentioned brother chose the life of a private man, and lived at his
ease, in independence, among the first people of the kingdom. The hatred
of the monarch extended itself to my sister, who had married the son of
General Waldow, and lived in widowhood, from the year 1749, to her second
marriage. The misfortunes of this woman, in consequence of the treachery
of Weingarten, and the aid she sent to me in my prison at Magdeburg, I
have before related. She was possessed of the fine estate of Hammer,
near Landsberg on the Warta. The Russian army changed the whole face of
the country, and laid it desert. She fled to Custrin, where everything
was destroyed during the siege. The Prussian army also demolished the
fine forests.

After the war, the King assisted all the ruined families of Brandenburg;
she alone obtained nothing, because she was my sister. She petitioned
the King, who repined she must seek for redress from her dear brother.
She died, in the flower of her age, a short time after she had married
her second husband, the present Colonel Pape: her son, also, died last
year. He was captain in the regiment of the Gotz dragoons. Thus were
all my brothers and sisters punished because they were mine. Could it be
believed that the great Frederic would revenge himself on the children
and the children's children? Was it not sufficient that he should wreak
his wrath on my head alone? Why has the name of Trenck been hateful to
him, to the very hour of his death?

One Derschau, captain of horse, and brother of my mother, addressed
himself to the King, in 1753, alleging he was my nearest relation and
feudal heir, and petitioned that he would bestow on him my confiscated
estates of Great Sharlack. The King demanded that the necessary proofs
should be sent from the chamber at Konigsberg. He was uninformed that I
had two brothers living, that Great Sharlack was an ancient family
inheritance, and that it appertained to my brothers, and