I. PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION..
Friedrich will make Men happy: Corn-Magazines, p. 6.
Abolition of Legal Torture, 8.
Will have Philosophers about him, and a real Academy of Sci-
ences, 9.
And Every One shall get to Heaven in his own Way, 11.
Free Press, and Newspapers the best Instructors, 12.
Intends to be Practical withal, and every inch a King, 16.
Behavior to his Mother-to his Wife, 21.
No Change in his Father's Methods or Ministries, 24.
IX. RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE...
Mystery in Berlin, for Seven Weeks, while the Preparations
go on; Voltaire visits Friedrich to decipher it, but can
not, p. 112.
View of Friedrich behind the Veil, 116.
Excellency Botta has Audience; then Excellency Dickens,
and others: December 6th, the Mystery is out, 120.
Masked Ball at Berlin, 12th-13th December, 124.
VIII. PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG....
IX. FRIEDRICH RETURNS TO SILESIA..
Skirmish of Baumgarten, 27th February, 1741, p. 206.
Aspects of Breslau, 209.
Austria is standing to Arms, 212.
The Young Dessauer captures Glogau, (March 9th); the Old
Dessauer, by his Camp of Göttin (April 2d), checkmates
certain Designing Persons, 217.
Friedrich takes the Field, with some Pomp; goes into the
Mountains, but comes fast back, 223.
Who was to blame for the Austrian-Succession War? p. 260.
How Belleisle made Visit to Teutschland, and there was no
fit Henry the Fowler to welcome him, 261.
Downbreak of Pragmatic Sanction; Manner of the chief Ar-
tists in handling their Covenants, 265.
Concerning the Imperial Election (Kaiserwahl) that is to be;
Candidates for Kaisership, 273.
Teutschland to be carved into something of Symmetry, should
the Belleisle Enterprises succeed, 277.
Belleisle on Visit to Friedrich; sees Friedrich besiege Brieg,
with Effect, 280.
XII. SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY..
1. Snatch of Parliamentary Eloquence by Mr. Viner (19th
April, 1741), p. 287.
2. Constitutional Historian on the Phenomenon of Walpole
in England, 290.
3. Of the Spanish War, or the Jenkins's-Ear Question, 293.
Succinct History of the Spanish War, which began in 1739;
and ended-When did it end? 296.
XIII. SMALL-WAR: FIRST EMERGENCE OF ZIETHEN THE HUSSAR
GENERAL INTO NOTICE....
IX. WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT.... 407
Wilhelmina at the Coronation, p. 412.
The Duchess Dowager of Würtemberg, returning from Ber-
lin, favors us with another Visit, 416.
X. FRIEDRICH DOES HIS MORAVIAN EXPEDITION, WHICH PROVES
A MERE MORAVIAN FORAY.....
Iglau is got, but not the Magazine at Iglau, p. 422.
The Saxons think Iglau enough; the French go home, 423.
Friedrich submerges the Moravian Countries, but can not
Brünn, which is the indispensable point, 425.
The Saxons have no Cannon for Brünn, can not afford any;
there is a high Resolution taken at Vienna (February 25th);
Friedrich quits the Moravian Enterprise, 426.
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