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he merited punishment; the pursuit of the avenging arm of justice; and to be extirpated from all human society。



EPILOGUE。



Thomas Carlyle's opinion of the author of this History is expressed in the following passages from his History of Friedrich II。 of Prussia:  〃'Frederick Baron Trenck;' loud sounding phantasm; once famous in the world; now gone to the nurseries as mythical; was of this carnival (1742…3。) 。 。 。 A tall actuality in that time; swaggering about in sumptuous Life Guard uniform in his mess…rooms and assembly…rooms; much in love with himself; the fool!  And I rather think; in spite of his dog insinuations; neither Princess had heard of him till twenty years hence; in a very different phasis of his life!  The empty; noisy; quasi…tragic fellow; sounds throughout quasi…tragical; like an empty barrel; well…built; longing to be filled。〃Book xiv。; ch。 3。





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