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THE REIGN

unparalleled. The trophies were two hundred pieces of brass cannon, besides colous and drums, &c. without number; and their military chest was taken, containing above thirty millions of roubles, a prodigious sum.

But the greatness of the King's victory was best seen in its consequences; the Emperor Frederick embraced him as his deliverer, ———Germany was entirely cleared of both Russians and French; for Charles on the news of the battle of Vienna, which was like a thunder-bolt to him, had abandoned all his hasty acquisitions, and retired into France, to prepare for King George's reception, as he every day expected an attack. Nor was he mistaken; the King had no sooner seen the Emperor firm on his lace tottering throne, than he directed his march towards France, determining to punish Charles for hisunjust